Here's an old one:

Poll The Ultimatum Game

( Thoughts )

I've got a number of friends who have Aspergers, including some of my closest friends. They're all generally lovely people, but every now and then they do something completely unexpected making you think "but.. but... what did you do that for?" and you suddenly see how their world view is subtly different. It's always fascinating when it happens ( Read more... )

This evening I went to a talk about how the internet and computer games may be affecting how young people thing and the general consensus seemed to be, in spite of all the media hype, there's not enough evidence to come to any firm conclusions ( Read more... )

...or more accurately I've made an appointment to give them a pint tomorrow. Eeek! *cowers in corner ( Read more... )

Rosie, pointed me the direction of some more interesting talks, this time at Goldsmiths' Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit, which I think I'll probably aim to go along to:

• Do psychology and Philosophy Need Each Other? - 3 March - I don't know a huge amount about either subject, but find both fascinating, so thought this might be interesting
• The ( Read more... )

On Thursday, I made another trip to the Dana Centre for a talk on Emotional Contagion.

The talk focused on The Chameleon Project, a project to produce a video art installation driven by the emotions of the audience ( Read more... )

So, on Wednesday evening I popped over to the Dana Centre for a talk on The War of the SexesBit of an unrepresentative title as the most of the research discussed was to do with inter-gender differences rather than cross-gender ones ( Read more... )

This is interesting. Two links below link to 2 separate stories written line by line in comments, one by men and one by women starting from the same first line.

Male version
Female version

A few years ago, I used to regularly go to Science talks at the Dana Centre. Although, I went to a few things last year, it's only recently I've started going back.

Seeing as I seem to have a bit more free time in the evenings at the moment, I'm intending to go back more next year.

Having looked at the talks coming up next month, I've got a ( Read more... )

On the Today programme this morning they had a science Q&A. They did the Qs just before I left for work, so unfortunately I missed the As ( Read more... )