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In case anyone missed this, The Brain Observatory at UCSD is slicing perhaps the most well known brain in cognitive neuroscience. That of Henry Molaison, aka "HM".
http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hm_live.php Read the comments on this post...
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Stolen e-mails have revealed no scientific conspiracy, but do highlight ways in which climate researchers could be better supported in the face of public scrutiny.
The e-mail archives stolen last month from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia (UEA), UK, have been greeted ...
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Last month, I wrote about thousands of people at the Knock shrine in Ireland who stared at the Sun because they thought they were seeing visions of the Virgin Mary. I specifically said, "That’s a bad idea: it can cause temporary blindness, and permanent damage to the retina…"
Guess what?
Yup. A ...
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I am no fan of Deepak Chopra. For years he has gone on TV, in print, and in his books, peddling all manners of nonsense. Here’s a quick reality check: if his claims of "quantum healing" are correct, why is he getting older?
Anyway, he has gone to the very font of new age nonsense, the Huffington ...
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Time and time again, we’ve seen it. When pseudoscientists and quacks can’t persuade the scientific and medical community of the validity of their claims, they go to the law to try to gain the legitimacy that their claims can’t garner through proving themselves by the scientific method. True, ...
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Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, has been working on top secret rocket plans that may one day carry passengers on suborbital flights that reach just beyond the boundary of outer space. In hush-hush surroundings, the Bezos Blue Origin business plan has been resolute in developing its New ...
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As a Tufts alum, I was thrilled to read The crisis of scientific illiteracy by Michael Shusterman in The Tufts Daily. It’s a terrific piece describing why the disconnect between science and American culture is so vital to address immediately. He begins:
Today the United States is faced with a ...
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This week was topped and tailed by University visits, the first being to the University of Exeter, who under the very able leadership of Vice Chancellor Steve Smith (who left Aber in 2002 at the same time as I did) and more proximately in Biology of Nick Talbot have grown their biosciences ...
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By now everyone and his grandmother must have heard about the hacked emails of the prestigious University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU). The emails were sent by leading climate change scientists to each other and seem to express doubts and uncertainty. More importantly they also ...
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Back during the DonorsChoose fundraiser, I promised to do a re-enactment of the Bohr-Einstein debates using puppets if you contributed enough to claim $2,000 of the Hewlett-Packard contribution to the Social Media Challenge. I obviously aimed too low, because the final take was $4064.70, more ...
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For many religious people, the popular question "What would Jesus do?" is essentially the same as "What would I do?" That's the message from an intriguing and controversial new study by Nicholas Epley from the University of Chicago. Through a combination of surveys, psychological manipulation ...
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The Royal Society of London is releasing free pdfs of some of its best-known papers — and we're talking real classics. Check out their timeline which lets you scan for papers in chronological order; the oldest are a pair for 1666-1667 by Robert Boyle and Robert Hook(e), which will horrify modern ...
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.El pasado lunes se celebró en la UMH la cuarta conferencia dedicada a la conmemoración de Darwin. El título de la misma era "Darwin en su ambiente científico y social" y fue impartida por el profesor Enrique Cerdá Olmedo. Fue una gran disertación que concluyó con una animada discusión en la que ...
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Speaking at a press conference from Bonn last week, UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer conveyed a message of “what can and must be achieved” at the COP15 climate change conference that soon gets underway in Copenhagen. Referring to the urgency of the growing climate crisis, de Boer said ...
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a comment on my previous post by undead doctor, reminded me of another story about a lift in the old academic building in the old hospital.every morning all the registrars, medical officers and interns in the surgery department would meet in the boss' office for a report on the previous night's ...
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Today the LHC at CERN became the planet’s highest-energy particle accelerator, surpassing the Tevatron by 20%. The LHC accelerated protons from the injection energy of 0.450 TeV (0.45 trillion electron volts) to 1.18 TeV; the Tevatron has collided protons and antiprotons with beam energies of ...
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Over the summer, I posted a list of words I banned from my science writing class at Shoals Marine Lab. Readers offered some equally abysmal suggestions. And this fall, teaching a seminar at Yale, I came across some others. I suspect that this list is just going to keep growing. So I’m giving the ...
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Now here's a very interesting review article that puts some of the pitfalls of models that I have mentioned on these pages in perspective. The article is by Jack Dunitz and his long-time colleague Angelo Gavezzotti. Dunitz is in my opinion one of the finest chemists and technical writers of the ...
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The day before the Thanksgiving holiday, I wrote about a serious contender for the worst medical reporting of the year, if not the decade, specifically how credulous reporters had swarmed all over the case of a Belgian man named Rom Houben. If you don't remember or haven't heard about the ...
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All Nature’s pandemic flu coverage is collected on our news special page.
It has been a mixed week for swine flu vaccines.
On Wednesday GSK announced use of one particular batch of its H1N1 jab should be halted after a higher than expected rate of severe allergic reactions related to the ...
