"Can science help us determine if someone is deceiving us? "The very high-tech stuff we rely on includes functional magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic encephalography, and some very, very sophisticated electroencephalography' one of the techniques used to test so-called guilty knowledge. That's where you expose somebody to something and they have guilty knowledge' they've seen it [...]
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Zapping HIV With Lasers
"Shaking a virus to death is not a new idea. Arizona State University physicist Kong-Thon Tsen, who pioneered the practice, conducted eight peer-reviewed studies in 2006 and 2007 demonstrating that vibrations can deactivate a number of viruses. But Tsen's latest work may have found a way to destroy HIV, just by hitting the right note. [...]
Sex blogging
"2 Sex—what is it good for? Scientists are not sure, since asexual reproduction is a better evolutionary strategy in some important ways. "6 Barbary macaques have a distinctive way to get their mates to make a sperm donation: yelling. If the female does not shout, the male almost never climaxes. "7 How do we know [...]
Scientists carrying on like fanboys
https://youtu.be/pHuvs9Qqa5o You'd think people with advanced degrees would have bigger vocabularies, but when that inner fanboy gets loose, we're lucky they have any language left at all. I'm glad you had fun guys. Now go write some NSA grants and make us all proud.
Happy New Year, everyone!
I got to wake up with a sore throat, but that just means I'm getting it out of the way for the rest of 2008. And since it IS 2008, I can post this again! Journal of Bloglandia, because Blogtopia (y!sctp!) was taken. and The Journal of Women on Comics, women read comics and write [...]
It’s not a party without you
Journal of Bloglandia (ISSN1950-7645) Journal of Women on Comics (ISSN1940-7637) Please cross-post, thanks!
Philosophy as commodity
"But now a restive contingent of our tribe is convinced that it can shed light on traditional philosophical problems by going out and gathering information about what people actually think and say about our thought experiments. The newborn movement ('x-phi' to its younger practitioners) has come trailing blogs of glory, not to mention Web sites, [...]
How to shop for effect
"According to Hsee (1998) - in a paper entitled "Less is better: When low-value options are valued more highly than high-value options" - if you buy someone a $45 scarf, you are more likely to be seen as generous than if you buy them a $55 coat." ~snip~ "If you have a fixed amount of [...]
I like to think I’m smart enough to understand Harper’s Weekly
But maybe not. "Citing Schrödinger's cat, cosmologists speculated that humans' observation of dark matter, beginning in 1998, might bring about the premature destruction of the universe." Harpers Weekly, November 27, 2007 "One can even set up quite ridiculous cases. A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following device (which must [...]
So much to fear, so little time
"It was Keynes, too, who anticipated and helped prepare for the 'craving for security' that Europeans would feel after the three decades of war and economic collapse that followed the end of the Gilded Age. Thanks in large measure to the state-provided public services and safety nets incorporated into their postwar systems of governance, the [...]