Some Photos From My Travels
Hopefully this here blog will get back into the regular rhythm of posting in a few days. Until then, enjoy these photos from Oakland, Portland, and Seattle.
Stories by Jason G. Goldman
3 Quarks Daily Prize in Science: Time to Vote!
Why write again what Bora has already written? The great science blog 3 Quarks Daily has announced the voting for it’s third annual prize for the best science writing on blogs.
Editor’s Selections: Moral Disgust, Experimental Controls, Smoking Addiction, and another DSM-5 Proposal
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week. Snacking on fertilized duck eggs features prominently in the first editor’s selection for this week.
Your Lion Eyes
I was traveling last week, and I’m traveling again this week, so the posting is fairly sparse around here at least until after the weekend.
Editor’s Selections: Video Games, Reality TV, and Fantasizing
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week. You’re running down a corridor in a castle that’s under attack by terrorists.
Poking at the Universe
Is this a difference in kind or in degree? Image: The earth comes into view just below Endeavour, as it undocks from the International Space Station.
Curious About Curiosity: The Next Mars Rover
Earlier this month, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California had its annual two-day open house. For a laboratory complex that has the same acreage as Disneyland, it was just as crowded as the House of Mouse on a busy summer day...
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...
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...
