On fMRI studies of writers while writing ( Read more... )

So you remember the famous experiment where the guy determined that we can hold seven plus or minus two items in our heads? I do; I've always felt a little inferior because I've always been closer to the five end of the spectrum, and often below that ( Read more... )

...but it was clearly The Most Salacious Scientific Lecture In History.

See? This is why I love biology.

Engineering, you build robots and fall into the Uncanny Valley.

Biology...specifically human physiology...this.

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Crocodiles can climb trees.

Living in an area bereft of crocodilians, this is not something I had considered.

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...valley fever. I already knew about it, but I'm boggled anyway. Posted on DreamWidth at http://doc-lemming.dreamwidth.org/171447.html. Try this link to reply over there.

As in "animals that cause behaviour changes in others" that are usually their hosts.

Yeah, it's usually a strategy of parasites.

Anyway, I have a small reservoir of them for my own amusement and disgust: The ichneumonid wasp sort of qualifies, but the fungus that makes ants crawl to the top of grass definitely does, T. gondii does, and now... ( Read more... )

An interesting article here (http://www.chemistryviews.org/details/ezine/3769441/Slave_to_the_Rhythm.html) on a possible use of melanopsin and its effects on circadian rhythms ( Read more... )