Donors Choose Wrap-up
Thanks to everyone who participated in this year’s Donors Choose Science Bloggers for Students campaign. Twenty-two readers from this humble blog donated a total of $524, affecting a total of 904 students!...
Stories by Jason G. Goldman
Social Cognition in a Non-Social Reptile? Gaze-Following in Red-Footed Tortoises
Have you ever been at a party with lots of people chatting away, when for some unexplainable reason you felt compelled to turn and look at the front door of your friend’s house…and just as you were looking, someone was just coming in from outside and closing the door?...
Open Lab Update: Twenty Days Left!
Only twenty days left for submissions! Dig through your archives, through other people’s archives and submit! I’ve already started to contact potential judges for this year’s anthology...
Book Review: Written in Stone (and on paper)
This week marked the release of Brian Switek’s (blog, twitter) first book, Written in Stone. I got my hands on a review copy a few weeks ago, and I have nothing but good things to say about it...
Editor’s Selections: Mental Illness, Scaring Babies, Sports Concussions, and Finding Meaning
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week. To start things off, be sure to check out the “What is Mental Illness?
Awesome Animal Video of the Week: Struggling to Mate
From the new National Geographic Great Migrations mini-series. Open comment thread: Did you watch it last night? What did you think?
What Is Psychopathology? Examining the Changing Status of ADHD
Despite the fact that my research lies at the intersection between cognitive, comparative, and developmental psychology, I am also quite interested in the evolution of our understanding of psychopathology...
What Is Mental Illness? A Mini-Carnival
Welcome to the mental illness mini-carnival! Mental illness, or psychopathology, is a field riddled with controversy and it can be sometimes confusing to wade through all the uncertainty and conflicting data and opinions...
Vaccination, Confirmation Bias, and Knowing Your Audience
“When men wish to construct or support a theory, how they torture facts into their service!” Even in 1852, psychologists like Charles Mackay, who wrote those words in his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, were well aware of the dangers of confirmation bias...
Remembering Yitzchak Rabin
I don’t often get too personal on this blog, but today is an important day. Fifteen years ago, Israeli Prime Minster Yitzchak Rabin was assassinated after speaking at a peace rally in Tel Aviv in Kikar Malchei Yisrael (now called Kikar Rabin)...
Open Lab 2010: Only One Month Left to Submit!
There is only one month left for submissions! Dig through your archives, through other people’s archives and submit! I’ve already started to contact potential reviewers for this year’s anthology...
Carnival of Evolution #29
Carnival of Evolution #29 is being hosted this month at Byte Size Biology. Click on the big green button for lots of evolutionary wonderfulness.
Editor’s Selections: Enrichment, Ballerinas, Salmon, and Telepathy
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week: Another week of top-notch psychology and neuroscience blogging! Should captive cephalopods be kept in “enriched” environments?...
Real Life Werewolves? Happy Halloween!
Shortly after the publication of this paper, Chapman received a short note from a local farmer: "Have you university types ever looked at whether dog bites happen more around the full moon?...
Happy Halloween!
A nice video from our friends at BBC Earth: …although I’m not sure why some of the critters in there qualify as scary. In any case, have a Happy (and Safe!) Halloween!
Forget Elephants; Sea Lions Never Forget!
Meet Rio. Rio is a California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus). She was born in captivity at Marine World in Northern California, and due to insufficient maternal care from her biological mother, she was transferred to the Long Marine Laboratory at UC Santa Cruz when she was just a few days old...
Editor’s Selections: Scary Things and Classic Experiments
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week. This was an awesome week for psychology and neuroscience blogging! I had a hard time picking just three or four, so here are six: Korsakoff’s Syndrome is a fascinating neuropsychiatric disorder marked by fantastic stories, told by patients, about things that have happened to them...
Robot Lizard Push-ups
Have you ever been walking through the forest and thought to yourself, “Damn, its loud here…it’s really, really hard to hear anything anybody else is saying”?
TV Review: National Geographic Great Migrations
Last night, I was a guest of the National Geographic Channel at the historic Saban Theater in Beverly Hills for the United States premiere of Great Migrations, which airs internationally on Sunday, November 7...
Elephant Seals and Donors Choose Update
Check out this awesome David Attenborough video: So far the readers of this fair blog have managed to fully fund two Donors Choose science education requests.
