Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:Growing Up on Zoloft – David Dobbs Talking Drugs, Depression, and Identity With Katherine SharpeWhy do we (accidentally) name babies for hurricanes?...
Last week (June 5, 2012), the lucky citizens of Earth were in just the right place to watch Venus's transit across the face of the sun. While this occurred just eight years ago as well, it won't happen again for more than a century...
Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:At Addiction Inbox, Dirk Hanson makes a bold statement: "It’s getting harder to interpret genetics studies, and that’s a good thing." Find out why: High-Risk Haplotypes in Smokers.G r e a t e r / l e t t e r / s p a c i n g / helps reading in dyslexia...
Just a quick announcement that I'll be on a short segment of The Aaron Rand Show, on Montreal's CJAD 800 radio station this afternoon tomorrow afternoon, June 6, around 3:45pm eastern (12:45pm pacific)...
"I walked into the house, and he was acting strange. I could tell he had done something wrong," she told me. I pressed for further details."His head was down, and he wasn't making eye contact," she explained...
Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:When do so-called "killer bees" stop killing? At "The Beast, The Bard, and The Bot," learn about when africanized honey bees turn nice.At the Scientific American Observations blog, Michael Moyer asks the Facebook IPO question we're all thinking: What Will Make Eduardo Saverin Happier: U.S...
Getting around is complicated business. Every year, animals traverse miles of sky and sea (and land), chasing warmth or food or mates as the planet rotates and the seasons change.
Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:"Kill Whitey," writes David Dobbs. "It's the right thing to do." Find out what this has to do with moral psychology.What if you could remember every single day of your life in complete detail?...
When is a yawn just a yawn? When is a yawn more than a yawn? Contagious yawning - the increase in likelihood that you will yawn after watching or hearing someone else yawn - has been of particular interest to researchers in fields as varied as primatology, developmental psychology, and psychopathology.At first, scientists thought that yawning was a mechanism designed to keep the brain cool...
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Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:You've heard about so-called "gateway drugs." But did you know about...gateway sex? Let Dirk Hanson explain at Addiction Inbox.Can science explain ghosts?...
If Mark Changizi (web, blog, twitter, G+) is right, you don't have to go see The Avengers in theaters to be impressed by superheroes and their super abilities.
Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:At BishopBlog, Dorothy Bishop discusses a popular theory in the development of language and reading disorders: that there are genes implicated in such learning impairments that affect a process in the developing brain called "neuronal migration."Who Says ‘I Love You’ First?...
Sometime between fifteen and thirty thousand years ago, probably in the Middle East, the long, protracted process of domestication began to alter the genetic code of the wolf, eventually leaving us with the animals we know and love as domestic dogs...
A trip to an unfamiliar part of the world is all you need in order to realize that humans have vastly different ways of eating, playing, talking, problem-solving, and so much more.
Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:Stigma, neuroscience, cross-cultural psychology, and goats! Learn about why the Chinese language has a new symbol for "epilepsy," at Mind Hacks.Jordan Gaines is a neuroscience PhD student and a young science writer...
Here is a slightly modified version of the slidedeck I used in my talk at Experimental Biology this weekend. Jason G.
It is still incredibly difficult to adopt a domestic fox in the United States. However, several have been adopted as pets in other countries. Here's a video of one man and his two pet foxes doing...not much...
Just a quick announcement that I'll be joining fellow SA blogger Danielle Lee, Dr. Isis, and Pascale Lane in what promises to be the "world’s most amazingest session ever" on Saturday at 3pm at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego...
Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:"To prepare for Wimbledon, Bjorn grew a beard and wore the same Fila shirt during the matches." At Why We Reason, Sam McNerney discusses the science of superstition.Why do we say that we travel "up north" or "down south"?...
