Science, Superstitions and Skeptical Life
I’m busy, busy, busy – working on some qual research today in schools then it’s a meeting with a few members of the Philosophy cafe group I’m a member of, in regards to helping promote a workshop we’re doing later in the year for teachers. It’s a more productive use of time than questioning about [...]
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Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse? Now that you have checked out whether you’re adequately prepared for that (and I have your attention!) – the 2nd of March should be in your blogging schedules – as that’s the date for Encephelon, the the bi-weekly neuroscience blog carnival – hosted here at [...]
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From The Scientific American Magazine an excellent six-page article – “Magic and the Brain: How Magicians “Trick” the Mind – Magicians have been testing and exploiting the limits of cognition and attention for hundreds of years. Neuroscientists are just beginning to catch up”: …In an unpublished study in 2006 Kuhn and cognitive neuroscientists Ben A. [...]
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A relative was very recently told that the malignant brain tumor that was supposedly removed successfully – has returned. The only hint we got was dizzy spells and some disorientation. We thought it was gone, but apparently not. This has been something that has been ongoing this year and I haven’t really felt like discussing [...]
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Yes, I’m typing this from an airport net kiosk, surrounded by sproglings who are giggling about discovering ‘Design your own can‘ at pepsi.com or some such technical fun on the other terminal. Oh, the days when making inappropriate advertising suggestions served as a distraction during a two and a half hour transit… However I have [...]
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Ah, I adore E, my regular commentator under many guises. And deliverer of LolCat goodness! Anyway, after E sent me an article today on superstitious beliefs amongst politicians, I countered with the blog entry I wrote a while back on the issue – Political Punditry On McCain’s Magical Thinking: The notion of ‘magical thinking‘ has [...]
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Encephalon is a selection of the best psychology and neuroscience blog posts from around the blogosphere, giving readers an excellent overview of what we have to offer online. Today, May 12th, happens to be the anniversary of the death of Erik Erikson, whose work I studied whilst getting my degree in special learning needs. In [...]
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NY Times today reports on a study – “Memory Training Shown to Turn Up Brainpower”: A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth. Until now, it had been widely assumed that the kind of mental ability that allows us [...]
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