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Detect Goodhart and shut down - Published on January 22, 2025 6:45 PM GMT A common failure of optimizers is Edge Instantiation. An optimizer often finds a weird or extreme solution to a p...

Fan Chant: Jennie’s Album, IU in Theaters, and GOT7’s Comeback - A look into Jennie's stacked tracklist, IU's theatrical run, and new music from GOT7. Fan Chant: Jennie’s Album, IU in Theaters, and GOT7’s Comeback Mar...

Massive Study Looks at Risks and Benefits of Weight-Loss Drugs - Source: United Press International - Health News As demand for weight-loss injections sold under brand names such as Ozempic and Wegovy continues to soar,...

Bigger, Taller, and More Formidable: The Evolutionary Tale of Male Growth - How global improvements in living conditions have fueled greater sexual dimorphism in human height and weight.

Relecture inédite d’une des dernières œuvres de Bergson - Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion est paru en 1932. Dans Mystique et histoire chez Henri Bergson, une lecture des Deux sources de la morale d...

The birth of aspirational multiethnic populism - I have pulled some clips from an excellent substack piece by Yascha Mounk to cement and archive his main points for myself and also pass on to MindBlog r...

When Nature Calls Together: Contagious Urination in Chimpanzees - Exploring how synchronized behavior reveals the social intricacies of our closest relatives.

New study uncovers key mechanism behind learning and memory - A breakthrough study sheds new light on how brain cells relay critical information from their extremities to their nucleus, leading to the activation of ge...

When It Comes to Prejudice, a Growth Mindset Can Cut Both Ways - Teaching: Lesson plans about the changeability or controllability of traits that other people possess and how they can play a role in whether we develop pr...

New evidence suggests megaflood refilled the Mediterranean Sea five million years ago - A new study provides compelling new evidence that a colossal 'megaflood' refilled the Mediterranean Sea, ending a period during which the Med was a vast ex...

Brain immune cells may also be from 'Mars and Venus' - Researchers find that microglia function differently in males versus females, potentially having broad implications for how neurological diseases are studied.

Gender Norms Are Complex, Opaque - Wondering how to make clear our cultural drift problem, it occurred to me that historical fiction, especially using time travel, could make vivid how key n...

Peter Ó Máille - Opposing War: What Shall Be Done? - *Author*: Peter Ó Máille *Title*: Opposing War: What Shall Be Done? *Subtitle*: Reportback *Date*: 16th January 2025 *Source*: Retrieved on 18th January 2025...

Bulletin de la Société Française d'Histoire de la Médecine et des Sciences Vétérinaires - [image: Couverture de la revue] (2002 - 2021) 20 numéros eISSN - 2803-922X Le Bulletin de la Société française d'Histoire de la Médecine et des Sciences...

Eugenics, statistical hubris, and unknowable unknowns in human genetics - A new paper just out in *Nature*, by Peter Visscher and colleagues (including bio-ethicist Julian Salvulescu) explores the idea of polygenic genome editi...

Front Cover - Current Anthropology, Volume 65, Issue 6, December 2024.

Recentring the research and teaching mission of universities: The horror of tracking my work hours - For years, I keep telling people that I need to work a lot in order to stay on top of things. Gone are the days of the professor sitting in their office ...

ARTICLE: Darwin’s Chalcopyrite: Engaging Museum Audiences with Global Extractive Stories - In the journal Museum & Society: Darwin’s Chalcopyrite: Engaging Museum Audiences with Global Extractive Stories Liz Hide Abstract Challenging established ...

Consecuencias de la nueva clasificación de los dinosaurios - *ATENCIÓN. Esto fue una broma con motivo del 1 de abril. Señores estudiántidos y docéntidos, no utilicen el texto para sus tareas académicas* Como sabéis,...

Tenure-Track Opening in Computational Social Science at CMU (a.k.a. Call to Pittsburgh, 2024 edition) - *Attention conservation notice:* Advertising an academic position in fields you don't work in, in a place you don't want to live, paying much less than t...

Historicism - I have made my latest Substack post available to all. In which I defend myself from heinous charges and calumnies, and defend a kind of historicism.

Who’s Not Cool With AC? - This past summer was hot, hotter than it used to be, and this is causing a lot of new challenges for work, infrastructure, our social lives, and our health...

Resilience - “When there is a storm, and you stand in front of a tree, if you look at its branches, you swear it will fall. But if you watch the trunk, you will see its...

Interested in a challenging postdoc position in Amsterdam? - MCG in November 2024. We are currently looking for a postdoc researcher that likes to work on the intersection of music cognition, biology, and the cogniti...

This Year's (2024) Textbook-free Human Origins and Evolution - I’m still teaching APG 201 Human Origins and Evolution to an auditorium of 120 students every Fall semester. Unlike what students do at other universitie...

The Scopes Trial and Later Michael Ruse - For r & r I have been reading the new history of the Scopes ‘monkey trial’ by Brenda Wineapple, “Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial that Rive...

Guide to Strabo - This post is a guide for reading sequentally through ethnographic passages in Strabo of Amaseia’s Geography (early first century CE): Celts, Ethiopians and...

Psych vs. Tech Conferences Head-to-Head - Attending APA and a tech conference (posit::conf) back to back in the same city and almost the same facilities really highlights what you get for your re...

Backed by Science? Building a lucrative spiritual empire based on potentially “questionable” publications - image from Google Scholar Mahendra Kumar Trivedi is the founder of Trivedi Global, Inc., a provider of health and wellness products and services. His G...

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Why are English majors disappearing? - Many universities have witnessed a decline in students pursuing majors in the humanities, including English literature. Why has this happened? This soun...

Lynn Conway: Trans Icon and Pioneer, 1938 – 2024 - I am very sad to hear that the trailblazer Lynn Conway has passed. She invented things I don’t even understand, created one of the most ferocious and usefu...

Teacher Leaders | We Teach We Learn - Whether you’re a principal, professor, mentor, or a learning community facilitator, if you are passionate about sparking growth in teachers, we’d love to h...

A 25-year quest for the Holy Grail of evolutionary biology - When I started my postdoc in 1998, I think it is safe to say that the Holy Grail (or maybe Rosetta Stone) for many evolutionary biologists was a concept ...

Advances in the History of Psychology, 2007-2023 - After 16 years and nearly 2,500 posts, Advances in the History of Psychology is ending. Many thanks to our readers for their abiding interest in all things...

The junk DNA quotes of interest series. - One of the things I am happiest about having back online with the restored blog is the Quotes of Interest series. I had gone through the contemporary prima...

ChatGPT in conversation with a language scientist (Hickok) - Some interesting failures in this conversation with ChatGPT, not just about the facts of language & brain but some glaring logical failures, like that pe...

Containment and Expropriation: Lockdowns, Public Health, and the Scrap Iron Industry in Trinidad & Tobago - Beginning in July of 2022 a series of articles here and on Disaster X have been examining and questioning what it means to declare crime a “public health e...

Rehabilitation: A Comprehensive Approach to Recovery - This article explores the concept of rehabilitation and how it can be used as a comprehensive approach to recovery. Rehabilitation is an important part of ...

GOP candidate claimed rabbis agree that abortion is as bad as the Holocaust. He couldn’t name one. - When asked to name any Jewish leaders who agreed with his abortion-Holocaust comparison, Darren Bailey simply said, "No."

I am now at Temple of Sociology, a new substack please check it out - Hi, everyone: I am an Temple of Sociology over at substack. Please subscribe! Thank you.

Space and Place, the remix (6 of 6) - As we close out this series of reports on the Humanities Core (HumCore) Workshops, it is worth returning to the two questions that have driven every ses...

Most of us don’t have a desire for unlimited wealth - By Emily Reynolds. Study challenges common economic assumption that we all want unlimited resources.

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Citizen scientists discover a new water beetle and name it after Leonardo DiCaprio - New animal species are sometimes named after celebrities because of their trademark looks. That’s how we got the blonde-haired Donald Trump moth and the ...

The 2 Mountains and the 4 Goals - I recently came across the concept of climbing The Second Mountain, via Optimize Philosophers Notes (check out my last post to know how to get access), abo...

Mindfulness: New age craze or science-backed solution? - - Mindfulness has become a billion-dollar industry. - Research shows mindfulness can be an effective wellness practice, yet the effect sizes found in stud...

Elsevier partners with American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics to publish Genetics in Medicine - (*Elsevier*) The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG), the only nationally recognized US medical professional organization solely dedic...

Scientists model 'true prevalence' of COVID-19 throughout pandemic - (*University of Washington*) University of Washington scientists have developed a statistical framework that incorporates key COVID-19 data -- such as case...

Research 'final nail in the coffin' of Paranthropus as hard object feeders - (*University of Otago*) New research from the University of Otago debunks a long-held belief about our ancestors' eating habits.

Best Online Shopping Sites in India - Shopping, being one of the best stress-busters can also be hectic at times as it would be time consuming. But now days are gone... The post Best Online S...

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Fifteen Years Is Enough - The blog's author (Edmund Blair Bolles): Taken shortly before the pandemic when the whole world began to look a little queasy. Sometimes random forces seem...

Parrot Literary Corner - EP08 - Poetry and the World of Troy Camplin - Happy World Poetry Day!!!

How To Remove Logos From Clothing - One of the most prominent design patterns in clothing happens to be logos. It is a universal indicator of separating a brand’s apparel from its competitors...

Amanda Gorman - Amanda Gorman. January 20th. You took the hope that is America, held her on your tongue, then spoke her real again for all of us.

Video: Infant Gorilla Is Introduced To Surrogate Mother At Jacksonville Zoo - (WJCT; 2019)

The political brainwashing by the rich - How to reach the people who think Obama is the anti-christ, the racists who think Democrats are communists, and those who believe the global climate crisis...

Le retour du péché - La majorité des Québécois actuels, surtout les plus jeunes, ne savent pas très bien ce qu’est un péché, même s’ils connaissent le mot et son sens général. ...

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Reflections on Anthropology of Europe (2016) - A few years ago, I taught a college class about European peoples and cultures. Here are some reflections on Europe that I wrote at the end of that course. ...

Intersectionnalité et itinérance : comprendre et défier l’exclusion à partir de l’expérience vécue - Il y a deux semaines, j’ai commencé la lecture du recueil Je suis féministe qui propose un envoûtant assemblage de billets publiés sur le blogue JSF depuis...

Who needs an osteologist? (Installment 57) - Three different bioarchaeologists alerted me to this absolute clusterf*ck of bones in Saturday's Telegraph: I feel like I should be asking... are any of t...

Boulder Net-Zero Emissions Home Uses CertainTeed Solar Tiles - The news on climate change isn’t pretty, but both homeowners and builders like Sopris Homes in Boulder, Colorado are stepping up for the environment with...

Closed Gates and Opening New Doors: #SciFoo 2019 - A glimpse into the world of spider monkeys Last year I fell in love with Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series. It’s about a school for teenagers who...

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Stonewall Rebellion: 50 Years Ago at Midnight - [image: Aug. 2018 Stormé] Stormé DeLarverie is from here *Stormé was always clear: “It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was civil disobedience....

How Do Leaders Impact Our Definition of Responsibility? - What happens when our sense of responsibility breaks down? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

Cli-Fi: My Latest Obsession - It's been a very long time indeed since I've written anything for monkey's uncle. One of the problems with waiting a minute to write anything is that the ...

Drop list elements if - I am doing a simulation in R that generates a list of simulated data objects and then simulates emergent behavior on them. Unfortunately, it chokes on “dat...

- Nous voilà de retour en terre australienne et quoique tout se passe bien, ce n'est pas de tout repos. Alors pour se remettre du décalage horaire on s'es...

Museum Anthropology Has a Lot to Offer Public Anthropology! - This post was submitted by AAA member Jen Shannon, curator and associate professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Colorado’s Museum of Natur...

What’s Personality Got To Do With Us? A Lot - Personality is understood as the consistent features we display in regards to our thinking, feeling, and behavior. It begins to emerge around the age of 3....

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- In this essay on the dearth of conservatives in higher education, the possible oppression of conservatives will be considered. I am obviously not the first...

Machine learning to classify animal species in camera trap images: Applications in ecology - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.

The perfectionist's paradox - EDIT: ADDED Oct. 16 2018: As Karim Zahidi notes in the first comment below, I made an elementary logical error in thinking that (1) is evidence for (2). So...

Science & 1080 - This one is cross-posted from The Daily Blog. As Hayden Donnell said yesterday morning in The Spinoff, anti-1080 activism has become both noisy, and ugly. ...

- We've published various manuscripts about the Fongoli chimpanzees over the last year, but one by former Iowa State student and current Ph.D. candidate at M...

Kavanaugh for SCOTUS: So how fucked are we? - Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement, and Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh to take his place on the Supreme Court. This isn't a small de...

Believing everyone else is wrong is a danger sign - I have a guest post for the Research Digest, snappily titled ‘People who think their opinions are superior to others are most prone to overestimating their...

Seeking Science? See ScienceSeeker - Every so often you find a new site, and then discover everyone else has known about it for years. For once, this is a site I’ve known about for ages — bu...

Mothers Are Oxytocin Machines - Photo by Chiến Phạm on Unsplash It's the time of year when we honor and thank mothers for all they do. I think their most important job is literally wiring...

Junot Díaz, “The Silence: The Legacy of Chidhood Trauma” - This is a remarkable piece. …That violación. Not enough pages in the world to describe what it did to me. The whole planet could be my inkstand and it sti...

Top WRY999 Twitter Neuroscience Medicine Posts:March 2018 - The *top WRY999 neuroscience medicine Twitter posts* for March 2018 include post on research on these topics: - Elderly *walking speed *and dementia ...

Seeking donations so we can do Awesome Science - If you, your business, or your community organizations engage in any form of charitable giving, please consider us. Our lab is feeling the effects of the ...

Savage Minds is dead! Long live anthro{dendum}! - This will be the last post on the domain savageminds.org, but the site will live on. It will live on both at this address (savageminds.org) where there wil...

Trigger on teaching archaeology in Canada - This quote stood out, as part of the thinking and reading I've been doing since my last post on Canadian trends in the hiring of PhD to staff archaeology f...

Experience My Color Vision Research and The Duke Lemur Center In Virtual Reality On Google Expeditions - I am really excited to share with you this amazing news! Three of the Google Expeditions that I worked on over the past year is now live! Just in time for ...

How Scientists Predict If a Spacecraft Will Fall and Kill You - Welcome to the supremely fascinating world of object reentry risk analysis.

Archived! - The Functional Neurogenesis blog contents have been archived at the Snyder lab website: http://snyderlab.com/functional-neurogenesis-2009-2013/

Cerebral palsy and autism continued - "Our findings support the need for a multidisciplinary approach to management of children with CP [cerebral palsy] to adequately identify and address all f...

Cerebral palsy and autism continued - "Our findings support the need for a multidisciplinary approach to management of children with CP [cerebral palsy] to adequately identify and address all f...

Do bilinguals really have two souls? - We keep reading media reports of studies which conclude that people who speak more than one language are capable of perceiving some...... PAVLENKO, A. (200...

The Ketamine Consensus? - Ten years ago, ketamine was a drug best known for its popularity on the rave scene. Yet it has since enjoyed a remarkable rebirth - as an antidepressant. S...

Dismantle the Poverty Trap by Nurturing Community Trust - Understanding the precise reasons for why people living in poverty often make decisions that seem short-sighted, such as foregoing more education or taking...

NSF funding: myth, hyperbole and luck - Preproposal news is starting to leak out of the BIO directorate, and with it a renewed sense of anguish among those who were not invited to submit a full p...

Exaptation vs Neo-functionalization vs Co-option - I just reviewed a paper that equated Neo-functionaliztion, exaptation, and co-option - using the terms interchangeably. My first instinct was that this w...

Is Trump Obsessive Tweeting an Addiction or a Strategy? - Techcrunch took a stab at analyzing Trump’s tweets and found that the President Elect’s Twitter activity has grown exponentially since he took office. A qu...

How to write a book review - An infographic I recently stumbled across stated that “reading one hour per day in your chosen field will make you an international expert in 7 years.” N...

Des dollars retirés aux carburants fossiles - La campagne de désinvestissement des carburants fossiles se mesure à présent en milliers de milliards de dollars. Le mouvement, qui est parti de zéro da...

Ce soir nous serons nombreux à table - La vie, la vie! *Existe-t-il de la vie, ailleurs dans l’Univers? Éternelle question. Quasi unanimement les scientifiques de tout acabit réponse oui. Oui,...

Society for Industrial Archeology Website updated - The Society for Industrial Archeology has a new revised home page and website

Do social crises lead to religious revivals? Nah! - Back in 2010, I made a prediction: that the financial crisis of 2008 would lead to an uptick in religion. It seemed reasonable enough. After all, the study...

Billet sur le paradoxe de Newcomb – Bargaining Game - A lire sur Bargaining Game, un billet sur le paradoxe de Newcomb (ainsi que le « méta-paradoxe de Newcomb »). J’ai discuté de ce paradoxe ici à plusieurs r...

Grand Challenges for Archaeology of Gender and Sexuality - A few years back there was a survey of archaeologists to determine the 25 Grand Challenges that archaeology could help solve…That survey was pretty specifi...

Voyage of the Beagle (Non-fiction fan fiction) - 11/11/15 It’s #NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month. In honor, and because I had the day off work and am procrastinating from other tasks, I spent the ...

Cell Systems launches Math | Bio article format - The newest Cell sister journal, Cell Systems, just launched an interesting new format called Math | Bio. In an editorial announcing the new format, Quince...

Fury Road’s righteous sexual politics: Starring White feminism & good White men - This post is an extension of comments I gave at GeekGirlCon’15 on a panel focused on the feminist potential of Mad Max, Fury Road. I was honored to share t...

A note to anybody who is reading - Hi, strangers who have suddenly started following me! I’ve pretty much abandoned this blog; when I feel like writing I contribute something at Dead Wild R...

From the Archives: Asifa Majid on language and olfaction - When I first ran across Asifa Majid’s article with Ewelina Wnuk in Cognition, about how speakers of Maniq, a language indigenous to southern Thailand, hav...

Le droit à l’épreuve de la psychiatrie - Christian Saint-Germain est professeur de philosophie à l’UQAM. Dans son livre Le nouveau sujet du droit criminel, le philosophe et juriste examine l’influ...

Economics before human capital - As part of my last big dissertation push, I’ve spent the last month reading through introductory economics textbooks published 1890-1960. The variety and c...

Cognitive cues are more compelling than facial cues in determining adults’ reactions towards young children - By Blasi, C. H., Bjorklund, D. F., Soler, M. R. Previous research has demonstrated the significant influence that both children’s facial features (Lorenz, ...

White Chivalric Phallacy - essay explaining the context of the Charleston shooter bullshitting about “they areraping our women” as motive for his actions. http://www.secularwoman.org...

Smile - This blog is obviously defunct in all but name, so time to make it official. I have less and less to say here that isn’t better said elsewhere. Overall, I ...

Open Logic Project - A new open-source advanced logic text, announced earlier this week on the new blog: richardzach.org. Please update your links and subscriptions.

Book Thoughts: Pauly’s Controlling Life - In Controlling Life (1987), Philip Pauly explores how scientists have sought to manipulate life for the sake of human benefit through a biographical accoun...

late blooming sociology? - You may have seen Kieran Healey’s post about the most cited papers in sociology by decade. Pretty interesting to noodle over, but it’s hard to come up with...

Guest Post: More Men Are Raped in US Than Women? - Originally published at Echidne of the Snakes. Crossposted with permission. ------------------------------ You may have come across that assertion before if...

Scientific Consensus On Brain Training - A lot of big cognitive scientists and neuroscientists endorsed the following statement: “We object to the claim that brain games offer consumers a scientif...

Laetoli Museum Closer To Reality - Laetoli, for those who don’t know, is the home of hominin footprints that are around 3.6 million years old. The footprints have posed a preservation proble...

DHCのダイエットサプリのおすすめ - 適度な運動をして脂肪を燃やし、筋肉をつけて痩せやすい体に。 理屈はわかっていても、ダイエットを継続する事はなかなか困難な場合があります。 食べたい物が食べられない、苦手な運動を続けなければならないストレス、なかなか痩せな […] The post DHCのダイエットサプリのおすすめ appeared fi...

Motor Learning Mechanism on the Neuron Scale - Liu, Mr. Peilei and Wang, Prof. Ting (2014) Motor Learning Mechanism on the Neuron Scale. [Preprint]

Co-Variations among Cognition, Cerebellar Disorders and Cortical Areas With Regional Glucose-Metabolic Activities in a Homogeneous Sample with Uner Tan Syndrome: Holistic Functioning of the Human Brain - Tan, Prof. Dr. Uner (2014) Co-Variations among Cognition, Cerebellar Disorders and Cortical Areas With Regional Glucose-Metabolic Activities in a Homogeneo...

English Surnames: DNA, plural origins and emigration - Plant, Dr John S and Plant, Prof Richard E (2014) English Surnames: DNA, plural origins and emigration.

Moving day! - As of right about today, I'm moving both Denim and Tweed and my professional site to a new domain: jbyoder.org. I've imported the complete D&T archive to i...

The Evolution of Cranial Capacity in Humans and Stem-Humans - *(Hey, I'm actually writing on the blog's title subject today!)* Here's a chart I've been working on for a while: This shows *all known human and stem-hum...

HMS Beagle Project at Seafair Haven 2014 - The HMS Beagle Trust has been in talks for several months with the new owner of the tall ship *Earl of Pembroke*, the medical company Metaco Ltd, and has s...

Tod dem March of Progress - Ich hasse dieses Bild so sehr, dass es schwer ist in Worte zu fassen. Ursprünglicher Link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Darwin-chart.PNG#filelin...

Does Casual Pot Use Cause Brain Abnormalities? - First, I'll put all my cards on the table; I believe at most, marijuana should be legal, and at the very least decriminalized. If you paid attention to lat...

More than just a metaphor, Wright’s Adaptive Landscape provides inspiration - [*Originally appeared on Nothing in Biology Makes Sense*] Review of *The Adaptive Landscape in Evolutionary Biology* edited by Erik Svensson and Ryan Calsbe...

Autism spectrum disorders: A relational cause - McDowell, Dr Maxson J (2013) Autism spectrum disorders: A relational cause. (Unpublished)

Autism spectrum disorders: A relational cause - McDowell, Dr Maxson J (2013) Autism spectrum disorders: A relational cause. (Unpublished)

Autism spectrum disorders: A relational cause - McDowell, Dr Maxson J (2013) Autism spectrum disorders: A relational cause. (Unpublished)

Function Evolution & Anatomy Research (FEAR) Lab - FEAR Lab

A Christmas Gift from William Lane Craig: 5 Lumps of Coal - William Lane Craig has written a short piece, A Christmas Gift for Atheists -- Five Reasons Why God Exists, for Fox News in which he suggests that atheists...

Dynamics of the Corruption Eradication in Indonesia - Situngkir, Hokky and Maulana, Ardian (2013) Dynamics of the Corruption Eradication in Indonesia. [Departmental Technical Report]

Human quadrupedalism is not an epiphenomenon caused by neurodevelopmental malformation and ataxia - Tan, Prof. Dr. Uner (2012) Human quadrupedalism is not an epiphenomenon caused by neurodevelopmental malformation and ataxia. [Journal (Paginated)]

Three-Billion-Year-Old Plankton Found in Australia - The Farrel Quartzite formation in Western Australia has yielded a group of both spheroid and spindle-like microfossils believed to be planktonic organisms....

The impact of the BP oil spill on tourism - Understanding the effects of a tourism crisis: The impact of the BP oil spill on regional lodging demand From Journal of Travel Research Tourism as one of ...

Time to pack up and move - Mike Taylor kept complaining about this wonderful e107 content management system that I have used for over ten years on various sites. Now, I've finally do...

Raising An Issue in Indian Psychology - A recent literature search threw up an interesting-looking paper; a randomised controlled trial (RCT) on the effect of yoga on gunas (personality) in heal...

Neuroskeptic Has Moved - After four years, *Neuroskeptic* is no longer an indie blog - I've moved to *Discover Magazine* blogs. The new address is here: *http://blogs.discovermag...

Causal linkages between work and life satisfaction and their determinants in a structural VAR approach - Title: Causal linkages between work and life satisfaction and their determinants in a structural VAR approach Authors: Coad, Alex; Binder, Martin Abstract:...

No consistent advantage for planting soybean early - MADISON, WI, March 16, 2009 -- Planting soybean on the optimum date produces maximum yield and profit without increasing production costs. Unfortunately,...

Association of salivary-assessed oxytocin and cortisol levels with time of night and sleep stage - Blagrove, M. and Fouquet, N. C. and Baird, A. L. and Pace-Schott, E. F. and Davies, A. C. and Neuschaffer, J. L. and Henley-Einion, J. A. and Weidemann, Ch...

Turing Test, Chinese Room Argument, Symbol Grounding Problem. Meanings in Artificial Agents - Menant, Mr Christophe (2012) Turing Test, Chinese Room Argument, Symbol Grounding Problem. Meanings in Artificial Agents. [Conference Paper]

Multivariate methods and small sample size: combining with small effect size - Budaev, Dr. Sergey V. (2010) Multivariate methods and small sample size: combining with small effect size. [Preprint]

On Social and Economic Spheres: An Observation of the “gantangan” Indonesian tradition - Situngkir, Hokky and Prasetyo, Yanu Endar (2012) On Social and Economic Spheres: An Observation of the “gantangan” Indonesian tradition. [Departmental Tech...

An evolutionary behavioral model for decision making - Romero Lopez, Dr Oscar Javier (2011) An evolutionary behavioral model for decision making. [Journal (Paginated)]

Ayn Rand and Modern Politics - Ayn Rand created a system of thought that is just like religious fundamentalism in portraying a world without tradeoffs. This begins to explain her endurin...

Some books - Janet Afary and Kevin Anderson, Foucault and the Iranian Revoution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism [PDF] Angelika Bammer, Partial Visions: Feminism ...

The Lure of the Obscure? Guest Post by Frank Stahl - Image from Hochwagen Lab This proposal was shouted out as “…one of the most important papers on the control of meiotic crossing over…” (Hawley 2006). Since...

New Website! - Hi everyone. I’ve just launched a new website called The Daily Brain. We’ll be providing daily doses of science and tech news … please come by and visit!

"Chimpanzee" Movie - Disney's Chimpanzee has come out in theaters! The movie was primarily filmed in Ivory Coast with the habituated chimps from the Tai Chimpanzee Project and...

Marxism, anthropology and science - Wait for the music to stop! ChrisKnight2011-Pt1

Feynman: No Ordinary Genius - hmmm...

Nouveau site internet - Retrouvez désormais mes travaux scientifiques ainsi que mon actualité sur mon nouveau site internet : http://thierrylode.wordpress.com/ - Accuei...

Nonlinear Models of Neural and Genetic Network Dynamics: Natural Transformations of Łukasiewicz Logic LM-Algebras in a Łukasiewicz-Topos as Representations of Neural Network Development and Neoplastic Transformations - Baianu, Professor I.C. (2011) Nonlinear Models of Neural and Genetic Network Dynamics: Natural Transformations of Łukasiewicz Logic LM-Algebras in a Łukasi...

Can Evolutionary Theory Explain the Existence of Consciousness? A Review of Humphrey, N. (2010) Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousness. London: Quercus, ISBN 9781849162371 - Velmans, Prof Max (2011) Can Evolutionary Theory Explain the Existence of Consciousness? A Review of Humphrey, N. (2010) Soul Dust: The Magic of Consciousn...

The Vicious Circle. - Many research positions require previous experience in the field, but what do you do when you don't know how to get research experience in the first place?...

Critical Foundations of the Contextual Theory of Mind - antiquari(at)vodamail(dot)co(dot)za, Mr S.A. Orwin O'Dowd (2011) Critical Foundations of the Contextual Theory of Mind. [Preprint]

Girlybits 101, now with fewer scary parts! - I was deeply considering a blog hiatus, dear readers, but sometimes you get hit with sledgehammers, and the only thing you can do to make sense of it all i...

Cognition as management of meaningful information. Proposal for an evolutionary approach. - Menant, Mr Christophe (2011) Cognition as management of meaningful information. Proposal for an evolutionary approach. [Conference Paper] (Unpublished)

Pardon my brain - As social beings, we’re very good at letting others know when we’ve accidentally stopped being social. When we’ve missed something important in a convers...

Hey! I miss you! - Dear Context and Variation readers, I miss you. A lot. I used to love all our fun conversations in the comments, and what cool ideas and questions you had....

Hey! I miss you! - Dear Context and Variation readers, I miss you. A lot. I used to love all our fun conversations in the comments, and what cool ideas and questions you had....

The Primate Diaries Has Moved to Scientific American - I'm very pleased to announce that my long period of exile has come to an end. The Primate Diaries has now found a permanent home at Scientific American's n...

Thoughtomics has moved! - Exciting news: Thoughtomics has moved to Scientific American’s newly launched blogging network! What will this mean for Thoughtomics as a blog? Not much, a...

- Applications for our r-workshop are still being accepted - please apply by June 15! We are pleased to announce an intensive short course on using R to per...

N1 Specialization in Children with Dyslexia - *Accessibility:* Advanced It's been a little while, but we've been talking about the N1 component and how it relates to reading. Just to recap, the N1 co...

The Division of Labor in Society - Durkheim, Emile 1984 The Division of Labor in Society. New York: The Free Press. In another paper I wrote about hunter-gatherers this semester, I used E...

Hermione Granger and the Failures of Feminism - Hermione Granger is JK Rowling's feminist presence in the *Harry Potter *series, and she is a triumph. Hermione is a wonderful feminist character: smarter ...

Eye-contact and complex dynamic systems: an hypothesis on autism’s direct cause and a clinical study addressing prevention. - McDowell, Dr Maxson J. (2010) Eye-contact and complex dynamic systems: an hypothesis on autism’s direct cause and a clinical study addressing prevention. [...

The (wo)man behind the curtain - There are a lot of things being written about me on the internet, so I guess it's time to resurrect this blog just for a minute to put some stuff out there...

Let’s Talk About Tax, Baby - Dear Incoming Members of Congress from the Tea Party, Do you like clean tap water? How about our scenic and toll-free interstate highways? Do you think 911...

Emission radio "les premiers Européens" France Inter - France Inter le lundi 22 novembre à 14 heures: Emission Mathieu VIDARD -" La tête au carré" Les films : Les Premiers Européens avec Axel Clévenot et Evelyn...

"Apostille au Crépuscule" - Réponse à la haine par son contraire... Socrate a raison : mieux vaut subir l’injustice que la commettre. Je n’ai pas répondu aux injures ayant accompagné ...

Exploring Ancient Architectural Designs with Cellular Automata - Situngkir, Hokky (2010) Exploring Ancient Architectural Designs with Cellular Automata. [Departmental Technical Report]

Are cancers a modern phenomenon? - Yesterday, I came across a news report on a study by Professor Rosalie David and Professor Michael Zimmerman of the University of Manchester, who postulate...

The monophyly of plants and insects - I just received promotional information about a new book from Garland Science publishers. "Genome Duplication; concepts, mechanisms, evolution and disease"...

RIP George Williams (May 12, 1926 - September 8, 2010) - Evolutionary Biologist George Williams passed away last week. I credit George with being a primary inspiration in my career choice. His *Adaptation and Na...

Des femmes et des hommes - Nous sommes désormais rentrés dans nos laboratoires et la partie « analyses » va pouvoir commencer. Un autre voyage, une autre aventure… Vous avez compris ...

New Blog - New Domain: http://www.replicatedtypo.com . Please update your feeds as I’ll no longer be posting on this blog.

My greatest triumph! - Sorry. I can't resist. John Carson, a fellow runner from Canada, unearthed this photo from the archives of the Toronto Star. It's the finals of the 1500 me...

More on Biological Radicalism - [My apologies for the long hiatus in my posting. Real life has intruded in a variety of ways, reducing the time I can devote to writing. And I’ve felt obli...

The sex chromosomes: keys to the evolution of human intelligence? - Recent surveys of educational attainment and schooling suggest that girls are outperforming boys all the way through from primary school to A-levels. The r...

Armenian genetics - Armenian genes: Scientist in Yerevan launches a project to reveal genetic history of the nation. The description of the science in the piece is *very* garb...

David Chalmers: Effects of specialization - It's interesting to compare answers to a question between the whole target faculty population and those who work in the AOS associated with the question. ...

Excellent anthropological writing? - Little help with a task?: I'm teaching first-year writing this year and I've been asked to participate in a reading event for the National Day on Writing. ...

Why Causes Fear Science and the Truth - This is my observation. Intelligent people are a minority. There is an abundance of businesses, causes, and charities that are addressing problems. Addr...

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