Humor
- Some (Chimps) Like It Hot
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Perhaps it was the title: ‘Acquired preferences for piquant foods by chimpanzees.’ but whatever the reason, Paul Rozin, Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, found it very difficult to get his research paper published. The work had bee ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - May 16 2012 - 1:55pm
- Academic Inbreeding Alert
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“The practice of having Ph.D. graduates employed by the university that trained them, commonly called ‘academic inbreeding’ has long been suspected to be damaging to scholarly practices and achievement ” says a 2010 report in the journal Management Scienc ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - May 22 2012 - 4:40pm
- So A Biologist And An Evolutionary Psychologist Walk Into A Coffee Shop...
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Biology is tricky and evolutionary biology even trickier- in the modern age, with insights into epigenetics, that trickiness and general complexity means virtually any stance you want to adopt on any issue can claim to be 'biological' if you just ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 5 2012 - 10:18am
- Computer viruses, Bio-warfare, and Hank
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It appears that Hank may have become infected with a virus that originated from his computer. If so, this would represent the first instance of a computer virus capable of acting on a biological host. It has been speculated [mostly by me in an IM] that t ...
Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Jun 6 2012 - 5:30pm
- Small Laboratory Saucepan?
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Is your laboratory environment something like this? ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jun 13 2012 - 8:53am
- Automatic Boredom Recognition
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Although boredom very rarely escapes the notice of those suffering from it, constructing a purely technical instrument for reliably recognising boredom in humans is currently rated as a non-trivial task. But recently, a team from George Mason University, ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Jul 6 2012 - 10:57pm
- Bob Marley Gets Species Named After Him- Steel Pulse Enraged
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A small parasitic crustacean blood feeder that infests certain fish that inhabit the coral reefs of the shallow eastern Caribbean is the absolute perfect species to name for a pleasant Jamaican stoner- and so it came to pass. The little critter has been d ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 11 2012 - 4:17pm
- Kissing In Amsterdam
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“…what happens if a person who prefers to kiss with the head turned to the right attempts to kiss a person who prefers to kiss with the head turned to the left.“? This potentially awkward social situation is the subject of a new scientific analysis from r ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Jul 13 2012 - 10:32am
- Is Two A Goup?
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Is ‘a pair’ big enough to be called ‘a group’? The tricky subject of dyads has recently been causing considerable professorial debate in the journal ‘ Small Group Research ’. (Note: the word ‘dyad ‘ is derived from the Greek ‘dýo’, meaning ‘two’.) ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Jul 24 2012 - 12:06pm
- Dogs And DoggieBots- An Encounter
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How might real dogs react to robotic dogs? The Sony Corporation has been investigating. Researchers at its Computer Science Laboratory in Paris, which “… engages in fundamental research in cutting edge areas of science that are relevant for pushing the st ...
Article - Martin Gardiner - Jul 25 2012 - 10:55am
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