Doing psychology right (trying)
I highly recommend Åse Fixes Science, in light of our recent conversations about psychology. It’s a fascinating and important discipline, but it is hard to make heads or tails of it all.
Around the Web – August 29th, 2011
Thoughts on the BGI IQ study.
Language Evolves in R, not Python: An apology. Open science is good.
Are Twin Studies “Pretty Much Useless”? One interesting, but unsurprising, aspect of the response to execrable Brian Palmer piece is that se…
Around the Web – August 3rd, 2011
Culture of Science. The peripatetic Sheril Kirshenbaum’s new weblog. Though I think she’s going to stay put for a while now.
The Life-Spans of Empires. I’ll be talking about this paper soon.
Academics ‘Guest Authoring’ Gho…
Around the Web – July 25th, 2011
I assume you’re hot?
Killings in Norway Spotlight Anti-Muslim Thought in U.S.. I’ve read Gates of Vienna before. Despite my anti-multiculturalist attitudes I generally departed with them over their sloppy marshaling of history. Two wrongs d…
Around the Web – June 24th, 2011
There have been some good posts at Gene Expression Classic you might want to check out. In particular:
Synaesthesia and savantism and Where do morals come from?. The second is a review of Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality by Kevin M…
Around the Web – March 22nd, 2011
Monuments to Clan Life Are Losing Their Appeal. A rule of thumb is that the Chinese tend to emphasize permanent architecture less than other societies, probably due to the tendency not to use durable materials.
The Next Bubble: Farmland. Did not know: …
Around the Web – January 18th, 2011
Yes, The Singularity is the Biggest Threat to Humanity.
Imitation and Social Cognition in Humans and Chimpanzees (I): Imitation, Overimitation, and Conformity. Doesn’t fall into the trap of either/or, where chimpanzees are qualitatively different…
Daily Data Dump – Monday
High Rates of Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Older Swingers. This goes into the “they had to do research!?!?!” category. Older swingers are a “high risk” group, like gay men and prostitutes.
Golly, Beav, We’re Historic. I really loved Leave It To Beaver when I was a kid.
Religious Extremists Will Inherit the Earth. John Derbyshire reviews the […]
Daily Data Dump – Thursday
This Doctor Does What to 6-Year-Old Girls’ Clitorises? This reminds me of the possibly apocryphal story of a pediatrician being attacked in England because a really stupid outraged person was opposed to pedophilia. Here’s a sentence for the ages: ” Because much as Savage might like it to be, the world is not yet a […]
Daily Data Dump – Tuesday
Sexual urges overcome cultural taboo. So it turns out that the female children of immigrants from conservative societies (South Asian and Islamic) are paying for hymen restoration surgeries. The more interesting question would be if these children become sexually conservative themselves, perpetuating the life history trajectory so that their own children have to go through […]
Daily Data Dump – Monday
I won the 3 Quarks Daily Science Prize. ‘Top quark’. Heh. “I” = Ed Yong. ‘nuf said.
Brown-eyed men perceived to be more dominant. Dienekes offers up a more banal explanation, that the disjunction between blue vs. brown-eyed males in dominance perception has to do with a correlation that’s a holdover from past population differences which […]
Daily Data Dump – Friday
Subprime for Students – Why does so much federal money go to for-profit schools—and what happens when the system crashes? Steve Eisman, a Cassandra of the subprime meltdown in real estate, is now focused on the student loan & grant racket in the for-profit education industry. I have nothing against competition forcing the relatively static […]
Neuroscience blog of note
Check it out, Wiring the Brain.
The Oscillator, synthetic species
I’ve already linked to this blog on ScienceBlogs, but I thought I might as well point to it from here. Check out The Oscillator, every entry is dense with science. The focus in synthetic biology. I wanted to see if there’d been a mention of Craig Venter’s synthetic bacteria project, but the the search box […]