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// Fish de-volve after reduction in pollution. /
This is really freakin' cool.
"While evolution is usually expected to creep along over eons, the stickleback has managed to evolve in full-speed reverse to cope with the cleanup of Lake Washington, according to a study led by researchers at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ( Read more... ) -
// Subvoc TellMe? /
Something that looks a lot like early subvocalizing tech actually working... more or less. The video is worth watching. The future is exciting! -
// Pants on Fire. /
Liars appear to have honey bunches more prefrontal white matter. You know, the stuff Autistics have dramatically less of. Lying is a lot more complex than telling the truth - but the liars studied still got caught and identified, or even admitted to being liars - does this make them bad liars? One figures the ability to white lie or even really ( Read more... ) -
// Neuroscence, Law, Ethics, and Ummm. /
Michael Gazzaniga, Professor of Psychology, UCSB; Law and Neuroscience Project (we like him) in an hour-long interview by Carl Zimmer, Professor of Saying Ummm All The Damn Time, and writer for The Loom (we like him but not when his mouth moves).I really like this session (minus Carl Zimmer's ummmms). In the course of talking about law, ( Read more... ) -
// Study: Antidepressents don't work. /
"But one of the largest studies of modern antidepressant drugs has found that they have no clinically significant effect. In other words, they don't workThe finding will send shock waves through the medical profession and patients and raises serious questions about the regulation of the multinational pharmaceutical industry, which was accused ( Read more... ) -
// Kissing Up. /
Scientific American article on why we kissKey Concepts ( Read more... ) -
// Territory Acquisition Games More Rewarding for Men than Women. /
In today's "well duh" department...
"After analyzing the imaging data for the entire group, the researchers found that the participants showed activation in the brain's mesocorticolimbic center, the region typically associated with reward and addiction. Male brains, however, showed much greater activation, and the amount of activation was ( Read more... )