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Big Brain Responses Triggered By Sights And Sounds Of Emotion

bracelets4autism wrote 2 weeks ago: Article Date: 03 Nov 2009 – 6:00 PST Researchers at the University of York have identified a p … more →

Tags: Autism, Medical News Today, University of York, Meg, MagnetoEncephaloGraphic, med scanner, posterior superior temporal sulcus, York Neuroimaging Centre, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Snicker, or how the velvet worm turns...2 comments

rethoryke wrote 2 weeks ago: See here. [Thank you, Derek] I also love the phrase “a sort of high-affinity fluorescence prob … more →

Tags: Backstory, tactless observations, Evolution, failure of the critical thinking process, science you're doing it wrong, Velvet Worms

Major bacterial pathogen jumped from humans to poultry

geekheartsscience wrote 3 weeks ago: It’s not much fun being a broiler chicken. Not only will you eventually end up on someone’s plate bu … more →

Tags: Infectious Disease, Microbiology, broiler chicken, Evolution, Globalisation, phylogeography, Staphylococcus aureus

Reductions in US GHG emissions through household actions4 comments

thingsbreak wrote 4 weeks ago: Amongst discussions of US emissions regulation and the viability of individual action as a response … more →

Tags: Climate Legislation, Energy, sustainability, Energy consumption, Energy efficiency, Gerald Gardner, Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rap, Jonathan Gilligan, Michael Vandenbergh

Comments on ABC for model criticism1 comment

xi'an wrote 1 month ago: As noted in an earlier post, the ABCμ paper by Oliver Ratmann, Christophe Andrieu, Carsten Wiuf and … more →

Tags: statistics, University Life, abc, Bayesian model choice

Adolescent alcohol abuse can lead to poor decision-making and greater risk-taking in adulthood*

geekheartsscience wrote 2 months ago: (*Binge-drinking teenage tearaway rats make bad decisions in adulthood) Experiments in rats show tha … more →

Tags: neurobiology, alcohol abuse, Binge Drinking, adolescent alcohol abuse, psychological and cognitive sciences

Free Out of Africa: Modern Human Origins Special Feature In PNAS5 comments

Kambiz Kamrani wrote 2 months ago: The latest issue of the Proceedings from the National Academy of Science journal hosts a Out of Afri … more →

Tags: Announcement, Blog, Physical Anthropology, Human Evolution, Out of Africa, Paleoanthropology

Automated Capabilities Are Designed Into The Eye And Brain2 comments

Michael wrote 2 months ago: When an object is thrown at us, we instinctively try to move out of its path. Recently, there are  n … more →

Tags: Biology, Creationism, Evolution, intelligent design, New Discovery, Science

Psycho doesn't lurk in your shower.......bacteria do2 comments

geekheartsscience wrote 2 months ago: Our daily shower doesn’t just contain water; we can also get a face full of bacteria too. Shower hea … more →

Tags: Microbiology, bacteria, microbial ecosytems, mycobacterium avium

Darlings of the denialosphere reaffirm that, underlying natural variability, the man-made global warming signal is real - and say it's accelerating

thingsbreak wrote 2 months ago: OR: DENIALIN’ AIN’T EASY Monday, like any other day, was a pretty miserable one to be a … more →

Tags: Climate Change Denial, Climate change, Ocean circulation, Watts Up With That, Climate Audit, global cooling, Natural variability, Kyle Swanson, Long-term natural variability and 20th century climate

Study: Half of Fish Consumed Globally Raised on Farms

Ariel Goldring wrote 2 months ago: According to Science Daily, Aquaculture, once a fledgling industry, now accounts for 50 percent of t … more →

Tags: Economics, consumption, farm, Fish, farming, consumed, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Aquaculture, Rosamond L. Naylor

'Barcode' to help identify plants

purplepaula1 wrote 2 months ago: A standard ‘DNA barcode’ has been agreed on by a team of international scientists which … more →

Tags: Biochemistry News, Biology News, In The News, DNA barcode, Plant DNA barcode

Are you good at multi-tasking? Are you sure?1 comment

Chris Willmott wrote 3 months ago: I was intrigued by a recent paper Cognitive control in media multitaskers in the highly-regarded jou … more →

Tags: Paper review, Science, Web 2.0, Working memory, Anthony Wagner, AX-CPT, Clifford Nass, continuous performance task, Distraction

multitasking4 comments

troy wrote 3 months ago: One of the regular blogs I visit (here) has a post about multitaskers …electronic media multit … more →

Tags: computers, internet, tech etc., multitasking, electronic multitasking, cognitive control in media multitaskers, women multitask better than men, researching the use of social media

Cultural evolution [can] continue throughout life 3 comments

eideard wrote 3 months ago: No spooky apparitions on my toast! By successively acquiring culture in the form of values, ideas, a … more →

Tags: Geek, Science, Culture, Evolution, Cultural, Magnus Enquist, Biological

Microarray-based for next-generation sequencing, Structure of DNA, Arabidopsis periodic pattern3 comments

Huy Q. Dinh wrote 3 months ago: Genome Research Surprisingly, trên Genome Research kỳ này, 3 công ty biotechnology vào loại lớn của … more →

Tags: Genome Res - PNAS, Arabidopsis, Genome Research, DNA structure, high-throughput sequencing, Microarrays

Inhibiting Plasmodium falciparum growth and heme detoxification pathway using heme-binding DNA aptamers

tanlab wrote 4 months ago: The human parasite Plasmodium falciparum enzymatically digests hemoglobin during its intra-erythrocy … more →

Tags: Basri, aptamers for malaria

GenRes and PNAS (07.09-1)

Huy Q. Dinh wrote 4 months ago: Genome Research In the advanced access issue of Genome Research last week, I only interested in the … more →

Tags: Last week in ..., Genome Res - PNAS, Machine learning, Genome Research, RNA-Seq, likelihood ratio test, limma, transposable element, human genome

Reflections on Gaze, Attention, and Other Minds

Michael wrote 5 months ago: There is a surprising amount of truth in the old adage that “the eyes are the window to the so … more →

Tags: Mirror Neurons, Stephen Shephard, Jeffrey Klein, Robert Deaner, Michael Platt, Social Neurosience, Gaze Following, Rhesus monkeys, Lateral Intraparietal Area


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