3rd Annual 3 Quarks Daily Prize in Science
The always-fantastic blog 3 Quarks Daily has opened up nominations for its third annual prize in science blogging. This year, the contest will be judged by Lisa Randall, and there will be three winners...
Stories by Jason G. Goldman
What is Mental Illness? Book Review at WIRED
“Nearly 50 percent of Americans have been mentally ill at some point in their lives, and more than a quarter have suffered from mental illness in the past twelve months.
Editor’s Selections: Physics Education and Autism
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week. The first selection this week comes from Chad Orzel at Uncertain Principles.
Is Pedagogy Specific to Humans? Teaching in the Animal World
Human infants have one important job during the first years of life, and that is to learn about the world and their culture from their parents and other caregivers.
Editor’s Selections: Superheroes, Time Perception, and Choices
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week. Are you an inattentive superhero? Bradley Voytek thinks so, and explains why in this fantastic post at Oscillatory Thoughts...
Feeling Down? Science Says Go Shopping (But Use Credit)
My latest piece for LAist just went up: Retail therapy: It’s the answer for almost any problem. Girlfriend broke up with you? Didn’t get that promotion?
Science Writing, Science Teaching
Being a great science teacher is not so different from being a great science writer. You have to convince your audience to pay attention to you, rather than to the myriad other potential sources of entertainment and engagement out there...
Editor’s Selections: Spinal Cords and Jellyfish Eyes
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week. What can the spinal cord teach us about learning and memory? A lot, it seems.
Are Infants Born Prepared For Learning? The Case for Natural Pedagogy
What is learning? Most psychologists (indeed, most people in general) would agree that learning is the acquisition of new knowledge, or new behaviors, or new skills.
Editor’s Selections: Phobias, Dancing, and Retinas in Dishes
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week. To start with, is there anything that might help with exposure therapy for specific phobias?
Perseverating on Perseverative Error: What Does The “A-not-B Error” Really Tell Us About Infant Cognition?
There’s a very well-known experiment in developmental psychology called the “A-not-B task.” The experiment goes something like this: you, the experimenter, are seated opposite a human infant...
Big Open Lab Announcements!
First, the first couple of reviews of the 2010 anthology are now out: by Dr. Alistair Dove at Deep Sea News and by Ariel Carpenter at USC News.
Editor’s Selections: Shoes, Gay Caveman, Schizophrenia, and Neurocitation
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week: To start things off, Krystal D’Costa of Anthropology in Practice discusses the science of women’s shoes...
Open Lab Reviews #1: USC and DSN
The first two reviews (that I’m aware of) of this year’s edition of Open Lab have surfaced! First, USC ran a fantastic story on Open Lab and on my experiences with science blogging more generally...
Smithsonian Channel Women in Science Contest Winner
A couple weeks ago, I asked readers to offer up some science blogs written by women. I wrote: Throughout the month of March, The Smithsonian Channel aired all-new original programming, exploring the scientific contributions of five female scientists: Elisabeth Blackburn, JoGayle Howard, Nan Hauser, Elisabeth Kalko, and Gudrun Pflueger...
Baby Animals at the LA Zoo
I’ve been a bit remiss in posting much this week, mostly because I had to prep a guest lecture (from which I just returned, and it was awesome thankyouverymuch) on the Domestication of Social Cognition...
Editor’s Selections: Colin Firth, Beer, and Octopodes
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week: Liberals Are Conflicted and Conservatives Are Afraid and Colin Firth is published in Current Biology.
Psychological Science on the Web
I’m working on putting together a resource sheet for various people (teachers, professors, graduate students, etc) that will help them find psychology-related resources on the web...
Video of the Week: Baby Giraffe!
This newest addition to the Cincinnati Zoo, a female giraffe, was born last Saturday, April 2, 2011. She’s the first giraffe born at at the Cincinnati Zoo in 26 years.
Sleepy or Empathetic: What Does Yawning Mean?
You know that old phrase, “monkey see, monkey do”? Well, there might be something to it, except that chimpanzees aren’t monkeys.
