var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));Scientific American piece on the subject of humor and health here:http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=laughing-mattersAnd for a free healthy dose go HERE.try {var pageTracker = _gat.
Book Review
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));HERE a review of "13 Things That Don't Make Sense" by Michael Brooks, a book about anomalous and provocative topics at the edge of science..........................................
Magic and Science
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How Neurons Work
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Miracles...
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Good Gould
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Dominance
Essay by Paul and Anne Ehrlich on the Earth's dominant animal (...that be us) here:http://www.powells.com/essays/ehrlich.htmltry {var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-7602120-1");pageTracker._trackPageview();} catch(err) {}
Author Blurb -- Charles Seife
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Birds In Serious Decline
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));ONE THIRD of all U.S. bird species are currently "endangered, threatened, or in serious decline" according to this New York Times article on the just-issued "U.S. State of the Birds"
Carl Sagan on the Pale Blue Dot... That Is Us
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How Does Anaesthesia Work?
Carl Zimmer on var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));Carl Zimmer on anaesthesia and consciousness here.try {var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-7602120-1");pageTracker._trackPageview();} catch(err) {}
Music and Language
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));I usually focus here on "popular" science writing, but today I'll link to a more academic blog post.In college (back around Civil War times, as it seems to me), psycholinguistics was
Happy Pi Day!
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));This is March 14, otherwise known as "Pi Day" (3.14)Math enthusiasts are celebrating. So if you're looking for an excuse to celebrate, a few pertinent websites here:http://
The Real Hedwig
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The Mess We're In
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));Here a NY Times review of Nassim Nicholas' Taleb's somewhat prescient "The Black Swan."And essay by Taleb for the statistically-inclined here:http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/taleb08/
Theory of Everything
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));Totally over my head... yet still interesting:Physicist Garrett Lisi on a "new theory of everything": ******************************try {var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-
Hofstadter Musings
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));HERE, an interesting interview (text) with the always intriguing Douglas Hofstadter, cognitive scientist and author of the Pulitzer-prize winning "Godel, Escher, Bach," as well as
Quote... Unquote
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));"Cosmologists are shaking their heads in disbelief, because experiment after experiment is showing that the universe is entirely different from what astronomers had assumed since the
Amazing Sea Creatures
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Magical Magenta
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There's Something About Mary
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));Author blurb --- Mary RoachWhere do all these wonderful women science writers come from (quite a change from the old days)! Former freelancer and non-scientist Mary Roach has now
Quote... Unquote, +Video
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));“The world of biology is full of miracles, but nothing I have seen is as miraculous as the metamorphosis of the monarch caterpillar. Her brain is a speck of neural tissue a few
"The Century of Neuroscience"
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));A brief essay today from Chet Raymo on the impact ("you ain't seen nothin' yet") of neuroscience here.try {var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-7602120-1");pageTracker._
English Major Turned Physics Geek
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'Scientist's Nightstand'
American Scientist Magazine has an interesting section on their website called "Scientist's Nightstand" in which they interview various scientists/writers about their own books as well as others they've read or recommend. Interesting stuff, if you want to find out what some of your favorite thinkers are themselves reading or recommending. Check it out here.*******************************var
'nuther Blog Meme...
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...And More Mind Stuff
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));Jonah Lehrer, author of the current bestseller, "How We Decide," comments here on philosopher Alva Noe's latest treatise on human consciousness, "Out of Our Heads" (fuller review
Steven Pinker Stuff
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); Book blurb: "The Stuff of Thought" by Steven PinkerHarvard's Steven Pinker may be the Warren Beatty of psycholinguistics, or even of cognitive psychology in general; not just
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