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Mike Taylor kept complaining about this wonderful e107 content management system that I have used for over ten years on various sites. Now, I've finally done it: I've moved to a new host, copied the entire brembs.net domain and all it's subdomains to the new provider and will soon start to transfer the domain itself (so expect some hiccups over the coming week or so as I straighten things out).One of the changes this will entail is that the 911 (now 912) posts on this e107-run blog will be
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The Karoo Array Telescope (KAT-7) in South Africa, the pathfinder radio telescope for the $3 billion global Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, has released its first results.
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Here is a pretty cool demo from the 1960s showing the dissociability of motor control during speech versus non-speech tongue movements. Check it out! Thanks to Ron Nutsell for pointing this out.
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El siguiente artículo es una lectura dictada para un curso online de Maestría en Trastornos del Espectro Autista. El mismo fue iniciado hace par de años bajo el auspicio de […]
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In the ongoing struggle between the Representative of the 21st District of Texas, Lamar Smith, and all that is holy about the peer review grant process, the battle lines are getting clearer.
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Very soon, I'll be joining forces with Scitable, a network developed by Nature Publishing Group. I'm lucky enough to be partnered up on a group blog about psychology, and I can't wait to get started! (Don't worry. You won't miss any of my writing if you follow Gaines, on Brains!)In preparation, I've got a piece on the Scitable Student Voices blog today about misophonia, or hatred of certain sounds.Check it out here!
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Emotional isolation is ranked as high a risk factor for mortality as smoking. A partial list of the physical diseases thought to be caused or exacerbated by loneliness would include Alzheimer’s, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, neurodegenerative diseases, and even cancer—tumors can metastasize faster in lonely people. Loneliness, she said—and this will surprise […]
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Finally the decay of Higgs bosons to b-quark pairs is emerging from LHC data, too.
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From EyeWire :“The human genome is made up of 20,000 to 25,000 genes. The human brain contains almost 100 billion neurons making trillions of connections.” Visualization via onlinecollegecourses. Created by: OnlineCollegeCourses.ComThe post Interactive Infographic of Basic Brain Anatomy appeared first on EyeWire.
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Recently, Sebastiaan managed to port the OpenSesame experiment builder to the Android operating system.
Since then, I've spent some time working on adapting OpenSesame so that it can be used to create and package experiments that
participants can download from the Google Play Store like any other app. When the participant has finished an experiment on his/her tablet or phone, the data are automatically sent back to the experimenter over the internet.
So far, I have designed and
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I genuinely had this thought walking home last night...
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This week I am posting a discussion with Don McLeroy, a young Earth creationist and former chairman of the Texas Board of Education during the recent controversy over the science textbook standards. This is a follow up to an interview I did with him on the SGU. Don has been traveling a bit this week, [...]
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Neuroskeptic, one of the most insightful neuro-psycho-bloggers out there today, has a nice post at Discover on a Mark Brown article about whether it helps, if you’re fighting depression, to hear of famous role models who did so too. In ...
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In continuation of the theme of May as Mental Health month, passing along an infographic received in email. Hope it helps in raising awareness.
Source: BestMedicalDegrees.com
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This is the first fortnightly column I’ll be writing for The Conversation, a creative commons news and opinion website that launched today. The site has been set up by a number of UK universities and bodies such as the Wellcome Trust, Nuffield Foundation and HEFCE, following the successful model of the Australian version of the […]
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For the penultimate round of the TV show The Apprentice, the competing entrepreneurs must face a series of interviews with a crack team of hardened executives. The implicit, believable message is that these veterans have seen all the interview tricks in the book and will spot any blaggers a mile off. However, a new study provides the reality TV show with a reality check. A team led by Marc-André Reinhard report that experienced job interviewers are in fact no better than novice interviewers […]
Reinhard, M., Scharmach, M. & Müller, P. (2013). It's not what you are, it's what you know: experience, beliefs, and the detection of deception in employment interviews, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43 (3) 467-479. DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2013.01011.x
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The Singular Scientist examines oft-given public speaking advice to calm nerves before a presentation.
Small Pond Science is looking for summer reading. If your an educator, I like Design for How People Learn.
I really liked Doctor Becca’s reflections on being mid-way through the tenure process, especially the bit about fame. Also excellent is Small Pond Science’s reaction to that.
Love Girls Are Geeks advice on how to talk with a scientist.
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4C+29.30, a galaxy located some 850 million light years from Earth, has a new composite image which shows how the intense gravity of a supermassive black hole can be tapped to generate immense power.
This multi-wavelength view reveals that the radio emission of 4C+29.30 comes from two jets of particles that are speeding at millions of miles per hour away from a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. The estimated mass of the black hole is about 100 million times the
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An analysis of 4,000 abstracts of peer-reviewed articles on the topic of global warming and climate change has revealed an overwhelming consensus among climate scientists that recent warming is human-caused.
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Today, i.e. 15th may 2013 is being celebrated as a mental health blog day by APA and in the spirit of the day I am posting a review of ‘A Lethal Inheritance’ by Victoria Costello. It is a book chronicling how ‘ a mother uncovers the science behind three generations of mental illness‘ and is an [...]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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Little note: Since this post, I’ve been mulling over why Ritalin/Adderall doesn’t affect cognitive performance of healthy volunteers. Several reasons come to mind. I wasn’t reading the “right” literature (ie studies with positive results – any suggestions?). Stimulants may only influence brain activation patterns, but not performance. In this case, we can only detect differences […]
Jacobs E & D'Esposito M (2011). Estrogen shapes dopamine-dependent cognitive processes: implications for women's health., The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 31 (14) 5286-93. PMID: 21471363
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The third in our series of guest posts to celebrate Better Hearing and Speech Month, is a post from Rachel Chaikof, founder of Cochlear Implant Online. Cochlear Implant Online is using Better Hearing and Speech Month to launch their new campaign to raise awareness of cochlear implants. Be sure to watch …
