How a bat perceives but perhaps not what it is like to be a bat?
Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:38:32 -0700 (PDT)
What It's Like to Be a Bat
Not many people think about what it's like to be a bat, but for those
who do,
it's enlightening and potentially groundbreaking for understanding
aspects of
the human brain and nervous system.
Cynthia Moss, a member of the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
program at the
Universi ...
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heidegger and irony
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:42:33 -0700 (PDT)
i just shat a shit. ...
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Religious beliefs and politics
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:08:59 -0700 (PDT)
Religious beliefs significantly tied to national political
participation
A study recently published in Social Science Quarterly explores the
effects of religious behaviors and beliefs on political participation
and finds that religious beliefs play a more significant role than
church attendance or religious tra ...
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Epigenetics - the nature of nurture...
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:19:33 -0700 (PDT)
The Nature of Nurture
by Sally Lehrman, from California
Darlene Francis is talking about the frontal cortex, decision making,
and high-stress profiles in rats when she suddenly shifts the focus to
poor, single, inner-city moms?that is to say, stressed-out humans.
Working with rodents, the behavioral neuroscient ...
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Itching
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:42:19 -0700 (PDT)
This is fun:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all ...
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Early predictors of behaviour problems
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:31:44 -0700 (PDT)
Study says parenting style and baby's temperament predict challenging
behavior in later childhood
The way mothers interact with their babies in the first year of life
is strongly related to how children behave later on. Both a mother's
parenting style and an infant's temperament reliably predict
challenging beh ...
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April 16, 1178 BC
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:22:04 -0700 (PDT)
NYT
June 24, 2008
Homecoming of Odysseus May Have Been in Eclipse
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
That Odysseus took his time, 19 years, getting home to Ithaca from the
Trojan War is the story Homer engraved in the ?Odyssey.? But exactly
when did he rejoin his Penelope, who had been patient beyond belief?
Plutarch th ...
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Football and Mugabe
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:17:40 -0700 (PDT)
NYT
June 24, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor
Soccer 1, Mugabe 0
By PETER GODWIN
IN these last few weeks, the full nature of Robert Mugabe?s repressive
regime in Zimbabwe has been cruelly exposed. With his increasingly
brazen resort to torture and hit squads to terrorize his own people,
Mr. Mugabe has crossed a moral ...
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Google search data as a measure of community opinion?
Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:07:12 -0700 (PDT)
NYT
June 24, 2008
What?s Obscene? Google Could Have an Answer
By MATT RICHTEL
Judges and jurors who must decide whether sexually explicit material
is obscene are asked to use a local yardstick: does the material
violate community standards?
That is often a tricky question because there is no simple, concret ...
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Testing reality: Does the Moon exist only when we look at it?
Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:07:56 -0700 (PDT)
Quite a fun discussion:
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/06/the_reality_tests_1.php?page=1 ...
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