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December 26, 2012

4:00 PM | FYI: Which Computer Is Smarter, Watson Or Deep Blue?

IBM's Watson IBMAnd if we combined the two, what extraordinary intelligence would they be capable of? Humans haven't fared well against IBM computers. Record-holding Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter lost to IBM's Watson last year on national television. Garry Kasparov, often considered history's greatest chess player, fell to IBM's Deep Blue in 1997. Machines outsmarted men, but which machine would outsmart the other? In some sense, neither. Comparing smarts is slippery […]

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Wanna learn a second language? Ditch that familiar face.

Have you ever felt like you behave differently depending on your cultural surroundings? As an immigrant, I know I start mimicking others’ accents and body language once I’m out of my heritage culture. This type of environment-induced chameleon-like morphing is called – quite aptly – “frame switching” in psychology. Scientists don’t really know if it […]

Zhang S, Morris MW, Cheng CY & Yap AJ (2013). Heritage-culture images disrupt immigrants' second-language processing through triggering first-language interference., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, PMID: 23776218

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LEGO Faces are Getting Angrier; So What?

Transport yourselves back to sprawling across the living room floor—colored blocks scattered like confetti about the carpet—building the highest towers and fattest spaceships (without directions, of course), all the while ignoring your parents' yelps as they step on a rogue piece. There's nothing quite like LEGO. And certainly there's nothing quite like those ubiquitious yellow, blocky LEGO faces. But a piece in The Daily Mail last week cites that "LEGO faces are getting angrier," and that […]

BAIRD, A., GRUBER, S., FEIN, D., MASS, L., STEINGARD, R., RENSHAW, P., COHEN, B. & YURGELUN-TODD, D. (1999). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Facial Affect Recognition in Children and Adolescents, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 38 (2) 195-199. DOI: 10.1097/00004583-199902000-00019

Mar, R. (2011). The Neural Bases of Social Cognition and Story Comprehension, Annual Review of Psychology, 62 (1) 103-134. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-120709-145406

Thomas, K., Drevets, W., Whalen, P., Eccard, C., Dahl, R., Ryan, N. & Casey, B. (2001). Amygdala response to facial expressions in children and adults, Biological Psychiatry, 49 (4) 309-316. DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(00)01066-0

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Thanks Dad!

Daddy's girl. Photo from freedigitalphotos.net.Let’s take a moment to appreciate just how special dads are. Across the animal kingdom, fathers caring for their young is the exception, not the rule. Paternal care is most often seen in species in which males can be pretty sure that they are indeed the father (for example, in species that fertilize eggs outside of the mothers’ bodies or in socially monogamous species). Mammals rarely act fatherly - Only 10% of mammalian species show […]

Curley, J., Mashoodh, R. & Champagne, F. (2011). Epigenetics and the origins of paternal effects, Hormones and Behavior, 59 (3) 306-314. DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.06.018

Wilkins, J. & Haig, D. (2003). What good is genomic imprinting: the function of parent-specific gene expression, Nature Reviews Genetics, 4 (5) 359-368. DOI: 10.1038/nrg1062

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Will we have fruit in a future without bees?

Do people really still hand pollinate orchards in China? And why don't they just get more bees? A story about the past and a possible future. … Continue reading →

Burkle L.A., Marlin J.C. & Knight T.M. (2013). Plant-Pollinator Interactions over 120 Years: Loss of Species, Co-Occurrence, and Function, Science, 339 (6127) 1611-1615. DOI: 10.1126/science.1232728

Garibaldi L.A., Steffan-Dewenter I., Winfree R., Aizen M.A., Bommarco R., Cunningham S.A., Kremen C., Carvalheiro L.G., Harder L.D. & Afik O. & (2013). Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance, Science, 339 (6127) 1608-1611. DOI: 10.1126/science.1230200

Partap U. & Ya T. (2012). The Human Pollinators of Fruit Crops in Maoxian County, Sichuan, China, Mountain Research and Development, 32 (2) 176-186. DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-11-00108.1

Partap U. (2010). Innovations in revival strategies for declining pollinators with particular reference to the indigenous honey bees: Experiences of ICIMOD's initiatives in the Hindu Rush-Himalayan region, Pest Management and Economic Zoology, 18 (1) 85-95.

TangYa, Xie Jia-sui, & Chen Keming (2001). Hand pollination of pears and its implications for biodiversity conservation and environmental protection -- A case study from Hanyuan County, Sichuan Province, China, FAO Case studies on pollinators and pollination, Other: Link

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