A press release about Snails on methamphetamines works for me. The story is about memory. The jokes are about snails.
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Medicine
The Divided House of Psychiatry
by David Dobbs •
The ride continues rough on the psych bus.
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Biophemera on civility and tensions among blogospheria
by David Dobbs •
When Jessica Palmer gave a talk at the “Unruly Democracy” conference last month, she gave what appears, from her after-the-fact blog post excerpted here, to have been a semi-contrarian take on blogospheric civiility: What I did endeavor to convey in my brief talk was the difficulty of blogging on interdisciplinary borders, where science meets…
Medicine
Gleaned: Suspicious women, sneaky cops, fair-minded children. Plus flu.
by David Dobbs •
What I distracted myself with this morning. Don’t mix these at home.
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Gleaned: Mechanical brides, lying about lying, traumatic growth, and bubba v bubba
by David Dobbs •
At Biophemera, Jessica Palmer takes a look at Mechanical Brides of the Uncanny. Actually a couple look to me a bit like cans. Like most junk science that just won’t die, the polygraph stays with us. Even Aldrich Ames could see the polygraph was junk. NB, those who don’t shy from no-lie fMRI. From the wonderful…
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The Teachers’ Unions’ Last Stand
by David Dobbs •
I know where you’re going, but you don’t understand. Teachers are just different. via nytimes.com Posted via web from David Dobbs’s Somatic Marker
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“A nerve ending in a cotton sundress”
by David Dobbs •
Celeste was the product of emogenics, the breeding programme to optimizes genes and environments for those with heightened sensitivities to external stimuli. She was about as close as anyone had come to the ideal: she was a human nerve-ending in a cotton sundress.
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David Sloan Wilson, pissing off the angry atheists
by David Dobbs •
have trouble understanding talk of eliminating religion because it would make the world a more rational place. Eliminate religion? Good luck. It’s odd to hear people sworn to empircal reasoning indulge in hopes so wildly unrealistic.
Medicine
Lights, genes, action
by David Dobbs •
This is a very slick tool that seems almost too far out to actually work. It lets you use light to turn brain circuits on and off at will, and with great precision. It’s not simple to construct. But once constructed, it works simply.
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Werner Herzog asks: Where’s Waldo?
by David Dobbs •
Go now. Take the journey. There you will also find Herzog reading Curious George and Madeleine.
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