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"?...
In the 1950s, psychologist Harry Harlow began to study mother-infant relations in monkeys. After depriving young monkeys from their biological mothers, they were placed in a room where they could either hang out with a "wire monkey" - essentially, a metal figure in the rough shape of a monkey - or a "cloth monkey," which was the same figure, adorned in a fuzzy terry cloth coat...
First, a quick announcement: after more than two great years serving as Psychology and Neuroscience Editor at ResearchBlogging.org, I've stepped down, opening up the spot for somebody else...
It's springtime in the northern hemisphere, which means that Christians are giving up meat for Lent, Jewish people are eating matzah instead of bread for Passover, and spotted hyenas ( Crocuta crocuta ) are replacing their regular meals with donkeys, in honor of the Ethiopian holiday Abye Tsome .Hyenas will eat just about anything organic...
I just want to know if I can give up bread for donkeys, instead of matzah. It's how hyenas roll. By the @JewishTweets.
I first became aware of Dr. Terry L. Maple when I read his article in the latest issue of The Observer , the magazine of the Association for Psychological Science.
I received my masters degree in 2009. After a loooong review process, the research that I conducted for my masters thesis - my first first-author publication - is finally published and online!Before beginning the research I'm currently doing, I started grad school conducting MRI research of reading and dyslexia...
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week: Did language emerge from the neural systems supporting aimed throwing? The argument, explained by Andrew Wilson, is more reasonable than you might expect...
Flickr user Eric Fischer has done something very interesting. By accessing the geolocation information in photos uploaded to Flickr and Picasa, he's been able to map out the locations that tend to be photographed by locals and those that tend to be photographed by tourists...
sciseekclaimtoken-4f761877d9aec I was recently reminded of the fantastic 2001 PBS/NOVA series Evolution, which was released in tandem with Carl Zimmer's book, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea.The whole series is great, but episode 6, The Mind's Big Bang, was my favorite...
In one sense, the main theme of the Being Human conference was "illusion." Illusions occur when what we perceive does not match with the true state of the world.
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