Evolutionary psychology of gossip
Have You Heard? Gossip Turns Out to Serve a Purpose – New York Times From the article: Gossip not only helps clarify and enforce the rules that keep people working well together, studies suggest, but...
View ArticleNeuroscience family tree
Some folks have created NeuroTree to document the advisor-advisee relationships (i.e., “so-and-so was a grad student of that guy, and that guy postdoc’d with someone else”) of neuroscience. With this...
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fMRI evidence that human brain has (functional) small world properties
A Resilient, Low-Frequency, Small-World Human Brain Functional Network with Highly Connected Association Cortical Hubs (Achard et al., 2006) A study on network properties of the whole brain (functional...
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A ubiquitous human parasite that shapes human culture?
In the provocative-hypothesis-of-the-week department: Kevin Lafferty, a parasitologist, has put forth the idea that a fairly ubiquitous parasite (infecting O(10%) of Americans, and up to 2/3 of people...
View ArticleWNYC’s Radio Lab is Back for Season 3
Read on for a guest-posted ad for WNYC’s radio lab (http://www.radiolab.org) Through its innovative structure, WNYC’s RADIO LAB (www.radiolab.org) blends storytelling, interviews with top scientists,...
View ArticleWilliams syndrome nytimes article
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/magazine/08sociability-t.html People with Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder, have “trouble with space and numbers” but “a love of company and conversation...
View ArticleAge-dependent brainwashing in bees
Apparently, when not busy blowing our minds, bees occupy themselves by… …brainwashing their youth Vergoz et al, 2007, Science commentary …and/or mysteriously disappearing from the face of the earth...
View ArticleDetermining research trends from Neuroscience abstracts
In this paper at arXiv, Yin et al. report on an analysis of the abstracts from the SfN meetings from 2001 to 2006. It sounds like their analysis uncovered several interesting trends: Two they mention...
View ArticleIARPA and trust detection
Neurodudes reader Jason M. sent me some information about a funding agency, IARPA, or Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, that is funding neuroscience-related research. I had never heard...
View ArticleBayesian truth serum
Neville told me about this neat article from ’04. It presents a way to offer rewards to people taking a poll in such a way so as to motivate them to be honest, with no prior information about what the...
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