Two Theories of Dog Domestication
I showed this video today as an intro to my 8-week “mini-course” on Canine Cognition.
Stories by Jason G. Goldman
Editor’s Selections: Choosing Mates, Junk Food, Birth Control, and ADHD
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week: “So, sometimes we settle for less than George Clooney or Heidi Klum.” Casey Rentz at The Lay Scientist asks do we REALLY want what we say we want, when it comes to choosing mates?...
To Catch A Cat, You Need To Fry A Chicken
Whether you’re a dog, a cat, or a grad student who hasn’t been home to shower for a few days, fleas are a major problem. They make skin itch.
Extra, Extra
Science Someone had to ask it. Why do squirrels masturbate? Obviously, it’s a piece by Ed. Sentiment-sensing software could aid in weeding hostile online comments.
7 Questions with… Andrew Thaler
Here at The Thoughtful Animal, we are conducting series of seven-question interviews with people who are doing or have done animal research of all kinds – biomedical, behavioral, cognitive, and so forth...
The Fate of the Alamogordo Chimps
The National Institutes of Health announced that by 2011 it will transfer almost two hundred chimpanzees from the Alamogordo Primate Facility in New Mexico to a lab in San Antonio, Texas, lab for use in invasive research...
LA-area science communicators tweet-up!
Aaron Rowe and I are organizing a tweet-up for LA-area science writers/communicators. Many of us interact daily through our blogs or through twitter, but rarely in person – so this is a chance to meet up face to face...
Monkey versus Monkey
via Voice of America News blog: Organizers of the Commonwealth Games in India say they will try to prevent wild monkeys from disrupting the event by deploying a team of larger, fiercer monkeys to scare off their smaller cousins...
Open Lab Update
The list is growing fast – check the submissions to date and get inspired to submit something of your own – an essay, a poem, a cartoon or original art.
Editor’s Selections: Twins, Musical Workouts, Universal Grammar, and Bilingual Blood Flow
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week: American family values: where even the dull can dream! “One of the issues when talking about the effect of environment and genes on behavioral and social outcomes is that the entanglements are so complicated...
Children and Their Pets
Your humble narrator finds himself sick with a cold, so here’s a post from the archives. There is considerable research on how children interact with other children and with adults, and how child development can be influenced by those interactions...
Extra, Extra
Science The NY Times had an article on why we like spicy foods…a week after I had my piece in the Guardian making the same arguments.
Morality and Political Psychology: A Guest Post
Ravi Iyer, a graduate student and colleague of mine at the University of Southern California in social psychology, blogs regularly about moral psychology at polipsych.com, and tweets from @ravi_polipsych...
#SMWUSC
Below the fold, you’ll find a complete listing of all tweets from #SMWUSC, in reverse chronological order.
Biomimicry: Social Media Week at USC
The time is upon us. As I wrote about earlier this week, it is Social Media Week in Los Angeles, and I’m participating, liveblogging (on this post!
Origins of Morality: Puppet-Show Style!
Morality and convention are so mired in culture that it may seem near impossible to determine the extent to which biology and environment give rise to it.
Social Media Week in LA
This week is Social Media Week in Los Angeles, as well as in Mexico City, Milan, Bogota, and Buenos Aires. What does that mean, exactly? Social Media Week is a multi-city global conference connecting people, content and conversations around emerging trends in social and mobile media...
Science Blogger Blogcast Showdown
We initially planned on doing these group blogcasts roughly once per month, but then, well, Pepsigate happened and blogs were moved, people were distracted, and so on.
Editor’s Selections: Video Games, Global Warming, Religion, and Sex
Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week. Dr. Shock says that Internet and Video Games Improve Reading Skills and Visual Spatial Skills in Children.
