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Adaptations for the visual assessment of formadibility: Part II
Ionian Enchantment —
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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 ...2 days ago -
Watch Steven Pinker’s “Language and Thought” talk at TED
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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. ...2 days ago -
Adaptations for the visual assessment of formidability: Part I
Ionian Enchantment —
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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 ...4 days ago -
coming soon – ‘Reading in the Brain’
my mind on books —
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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 ...5 days ago -
03 November, 2009 – This Week in Science
This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast —
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Observing Life, Dumpin’ Punkins, Smell of Doom, Driving Bad, the Teapot Effect, Ancient Blasts, Demoting Dinosaurs, Fishy Movements, The Minion Mailbag, and Much More!1 week ago -
GPS Is Destroying Your Brain
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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.” ...2 weeks ago -
Encephalon #77
Ionian Enchantment —
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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 ...2 weeks ago -
27 October, 2009 – This Week in Science
This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast —
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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.2 weeks ago -
new book – ‘The Lives of the Brain: Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind’
my mind on books —
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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 ...2 weeks ago -
International Relationship Problems
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Daily Show Goes to Iran from sahar sarshar on Vimeo . I was watching this very interesting story about the Daily Show’s trip to Iran. It’s a simple trip that just shows the common humanity between Iranians and Americans. I think, indeed, that most people in the world are default friends. We are all pretty ...2 weeks ago -
"Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely..."
Heuresis —
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“Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world. In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears it ticking, ...3 weeks ago -
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions: Gary Klein
Make Money Myself —
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Editorial Reviews Gary Klein studies decision-making in the field, tagging along with firefighters, standing by in intensive-care units, and watching chess masters play lightning-fast “blitz” games to learn how people make choices with time constraints, limited information, and changing goals. From this ...3 weeks ago -
20 October, 2009 – This Week in Science
This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast —
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Ribbon Tied Bubble of A Thing, New Planetary Neighbors, Epigenes in Da House, Extraterrestrial Rain, Bacterial Tube Life, an Interview w/ Dr. Mark Changizi, author of The Vision Revolution, and Much More!!!3 weeks ago -
Gene Callahan vs Evolutionary Psychology
Ionian Enchantment —
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So I recently had an uncharacteristic (and unpleasant) online altercation with one Gene Callahan about evolutionary psychology and, amazingly, whether Daniel Dennett should be taken seriously. Im not blogging about this because it is inherently interesting (its not), but because it nicely illustrates several ...3 weeks ago -
Encephalon #76
Ionian Enchantment —
Authority: 420
The 76th edition of Encephalon is out over at Neuroskeptic . Posts to check out: The Neurocritic asks whether neuroscience tells us torture doesnt work , Neurophilosophy on how vegetative and minimally conscious pantiens can learn , and Crime and Consequences on the silliness of neurolaw .3 weeks ago -
Baby name choices influenced by boom-and-bust business cycles
Thaindian News —
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Washington, Oct 14 (ANI): A new US research has found that parents often give their children names that have risen in popularity as compared to names that have come down on the popularity charts, just like “momentum” stock traders.The study conducted by Todd Gureckis, an assistant professor of psychology at NYU, ...4 weeks ago -
13 October, 2009 – This Week in Science
This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast —
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Brainy Jugglers, Are You Smarter?, Thieving Veggie Spiders, This Week in The End of The World, Making Fish Happy, Tasty Receptor, Chinese Dyslexia, Retroviral Correlations, Breast Cancer DNA Cracked, Smaller Batteries and Bigger Calculations, Tick-Tock Bio Clock, And More…4 weeks ago -
Brain Fitness Book Talk in Berkeley, this Wednesday noon
SharpBrains —
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Just a quick reminder: am giving a talk, titled " Dos and Donts of Brain Fitness for Life ", this Wednesday in Berkeley. Description : Can you continue to learn and increase your brains capacity at any age? Alvaro Fernandez says, "Yes!" This lecture, based on the research from leading scientists in the fields of ...4 weeks ago -
The right-handed ape
Gene Expression —
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Via Anthropology.net , The prehistory of handedness: Archaeological data and comparative ethology : Homo sapiens sapiens displays a species wide lateralised hand preference, with 85% of individuals in all populations being right-handed for most manual actions. In contrast, no other great ape species shows such ...8 weeks ago -
Quantified Self and Augmenting Your Brain
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Here’s the presentation I gave at the Quantified Self meeting at Institute for the Future in Palo Alto this week. Sixty smart and passionate people on the frontier of personal life and health monitoring technology joined the discussion about using lifestream data to improve memory and cognition, enhance ...8 weeks ago
