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• Inverted qualia

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  A couple of months ago I attended a lecture by  Saul Kripke  at CUNY’s Graduate Center. Kripke is one of the most influential philosophers of the late 20th century, someone who you simply have to go see give a talk if you have the chance, on the sole basis of his legendary status. As in many such cases, it is not ...
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• 24 November, 2009 – This Week in Science

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 107
  Origin Anniversary, Radio Brains, Rampaging Robot Vampires Need Lawyers Too, Life Mutations and Electricity, RNA Warmth, Biophotonic Communication, Life as a Carrot, Kiki Rants, TWi the End of the World, And Much, Much More!
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• ‘What Are Dreams?’ on Nova (PBS) this week

  
  my mind on books — Authority: 112
  This week’s NOVA asks ‘What Are Dreams?’ The full program will be available online starting Nov 25 through the above website. Also check out the recommended “Links & Books,” which has links to websites and articles, plus these book titles (which they didn’t link, so I’m providing the Amazon ...
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• from the annals of...

  
  kitchen table math, the sequel — Authority: 426
  We review the growing literature on health numeracy, the ability to understand and use numerical information, and its relation to cognition, health behaviors, and medical outcomes. Despite the surfeit of health information from commercial and noncommercial sources, national and international surveys show that many ...
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• Acknowledging Our Cyborgness in Education and Beyond

  
  gnovis - Georgetown University's Journal of Communication, Culture & Technology (CCT) — Authority: 125
  Two weeks ago the Danish government started a pilot program allowing college students to use Internet during exams (see the news article here ). They are planning on extending the program to all of schools in the country by 2011. At first look this seems like a simple policy change. However, when I read the news ...
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• Not-live blogging: Understanding the Teen Brain or ‘Teen Whispering’

  
  Leading From The Heart — Authority: 112
    This could also be subtitled ‘my journey from negative to positive head space through frustration to futility and emergent adaptation and integration’. This will make more sense as you read through these notes. It’s a long post. But I came to some aha moments throughout and definitely at the end in terms of ...
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• The incoherence of free will

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  I recently re-read a classic piece by J.L. Mackie (April 1955), entitled “Evil and Omnipotence,” a stupendous philosophical essay about why theologians like Richard Swinburne are forced by their belief in an omnipotent, omnibenevelont and omnipowerful god into incredible and rather painful feats of mental ...
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• IBM Reveals Cat-Sized Brain

  
  Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science — Authority: 135
  IBM researchers, working with researchers at Stanford University, announced that they have made progress toward simulating the human brain.  These scientists have been able to create a computer that is the equivalent of a cat’s brain .  This simulation of a cat’s cerebral cortex created by IBM requires a ...
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• Encephalon #78

  
  Ionian Enchantment — Authority: 459
  The 78th edition of the mind/brain/psychology/etc. carnival Encephalon is out at Providentia . Posts to check out: Generally Thinking on the Buddhist brain , Brain Stimulant on neurorobotics , and The Neurocritic on unusual sexual changes due to various types of brain damage (including a kind of ...
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• 17 November, 2009 – This Week in Science Broadcast

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 107
  Making Memory Room, Oh Rats!, Hackers Hacking Pacemakers, New Breast Implants, A Tale of Two Drugs, iCough, Building Bigger Muscles, Push-Button Electric, Golden Ears, Right-Handed Chimps, Minion Mailbag, and More!!!
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• the whispers around me

  
  kitchen table math, the sequel — Authority: 426
  I love this: Nancy Koehn on Steve Jobs
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• Adaptations for the visual assessment of formadibility: Part II

  
  Ionian Enchantment — Authority: 459
  In Part I of this series, I summarized the experiments and findings of Aaron Sell and colleagues paper " Human adaptations for the visual assessment of strength and fighting ability from the body and face ". In Part II, I evaluate their claims. The evidence Sell et. al. present seems compelling with regards ...
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• Watch Steven Pinker’s “Language and Thought” talk at TED

  
  { design@tive } information design — Authority: 131
  In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought , Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds — and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize. Steven Pinker’s books have been like bombs tossed into the eternal nature-versus-nurture debate. ...
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• Adaptations for the visual assessment of formidability: Part I

  
  Ionian Enchantment — Authority: 459
  In the last couple of years there has been an explosion in research on faces and what can be inferred from them. It turns out, for example, that you can predict electoral outcomes from rapid and unreflective facial judgments, that women can (partially) determine a mans level of interest in infants from his face ...
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• coming soon – ‘Reading in the Brain’

  
  my mind on books — Authority: 112
  Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention by Stanislaus Dehaene is due out this Tues (Nov 12) from Viking.(link for UK)Product description from the publisher:A renowned cognitive neuroscientist’s fascinating and highly informative account of how the brain acquires readingHow can a few ...
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• 03 November, 2009 – This Week in Science

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 107
  Observing Life, Dumpin’ Punkins, Smell of Doom, Driving Bad, the Teapot Effect, Ancient Blasts, Demoting Dinosaurs, Fishy Movements, The Minion Mailbag, and Much More!
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• GPS Is Destroying Your Brain

  
  http://www.doublex.com/blog/xxfactor — Authority: 642
  I have been stuck on a country road twice in my life—once in mud, once in snow. Both times were in the same Honda Civic, with the same fiancé at the wheel, on the same patch of the same road. This road is in Iowa. There is a sign before it that reads something like “Road Impassable During Inclement Weather.” ...
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• Encephalon #77

  
  Ionian Enchantment — Authority: 459
  The 77th edition of Encephalon (along with Grand Rounds) is out at Sharp Brains . Pieces to check out: Mind Hacks on the curious spike in brain activity at the moment of death (and how this may explain near death experiences), Neurophilosophy on how vision can alleviate pain , and The Neuroctitic on the ...
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• 27 October, 2009 – This Week in Science

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 107
  Brains!, Sight For the Blind, Whiskers On Robots, Death To Mosquitos!, Musical Brains, Regenerating Nerves, What’s Up With The Bees?, The Best Dino Ever, and Interview w/ Dr. Bill Schutt re: Sanguivores.
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• new book – ‘The Lives of the Brain: Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind’

  
  my mind on books — Authority: 112
  The Lives of the Brain: Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind by John S. Allen (Harvard University Press, 2009)(link for UK)Product description from the publisher: Though we have other distinguishing characteristics (walking on two legs, for instance, and relative hairlessness), the brain and the behavior it produces ...
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