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Retrospectacle - Belief in Fortune Telling Amongst College Students - (USA)
What is Retrospectacle? This series of posts are a kind of Thomas Dolby-inspired ‘retrospectacle’ of earlier popular entries from my site, which will fill in during the time that I am busy working. I also hope you check out the MiniBlog entries that feature on the sidebar too.I’m certain that when most people think of a ‘classic’ paper on a topic like superstition or belief in the paranormal, they may think of B.F Skinner’s Superstition in the Pigeon. But as you can see, it was published after W
http://podblack.com/?p=1533
How Prozac sent the science of depression in the wrong direction - The Boston Globe - (USA)
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/07/06/head_fake/
Talent Development Resources - the psychology of creativity and personal growth - (USA)
Washington University psychologist R. Keith Sawyer says of one of the myths of creativity: “Many people believe creativity comes in a sudden moment of insight and that this ‘magical’ burst of an idea is a different mental process from our everyday thinking. “But extensive research has shown that when you’re creative, your brain is using the same mental building blocks you use every day—like when you figure out a way around a traffic jam. “In creativity research, we refer to the three Bs—for t
http://talentdevelop.com/creativity-takes-time-risk/
Unpacking the science of sex difference. - By Amanda Schaffer - Slate Magazine - (USA)
http://www.slate.com/id/2194486/entry/2194487/
Babies have an eye for statistics : Nature News - (USA)
Nature - the world's best science and medicine on your desktop
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080331/full/news.2008.713.html
Applied Cognitive Science: How Cognitive Science Can Improve Your PowerPoint Presentations - (USA)
Harvard cognitive scientist Stephen M Kosslyn who studies how brains process images wants to improve the world with his cutting-edge
http://io9.com/357063/how-cognitive-science-can-improve-your-powerpoint-presentations
Convenience and Comfort of Online Stock Trading - (USA)
by Sheryl Bocelli With the use of the computer, online stock trading has allowed buyers or sellers in transacting directly by themselves through the Internet. The online stock trading has offered traders and investors some dollar savings on brokers fee. These are charging the traders and investors certain minimum percentage allowed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. You easily find almost everything you need with online stock trading. You can take a good look on the sites at the s
http://bloggerstools.com/convenience-and-comfort-of-online-stock-trading/
Annals of Medicine: The Itch: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - (USA)
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_gawande
Convenience and Comfort of Online Stock Trading - (USA)
by Sheryl Bocelli There are commodities that are best for online stock trading and these are the ones that can get most of the market’s attention. With the use of the computer, online stock trading has allowed buyers or sellers in transacting directly by themselves through the Internet. Brokers are charging the traders and investors certain minimum percentage allowed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The online stock trading has offered traders and investors some dollar savings on br
http://www.ebooks-business.com/blog/softwares-and-scripts/convenience-and-comfort-of-online-stock-trading
Cognitive Daily - (USA)
A new cognitive psychology article nearly every day
http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/
Study Well If You Go Online Stock Trading - (USA)
by Sheryl Bocelli The online stock trading has offered traders and investors some dollar savings on brokers fee. These are charging the traders and investors certain minimum percentage allowed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. With the use of the computer, these buyers or sellers are now transacting directly by themselves through the Internet. You can take a good look at these such as stocks, bonds and mutual funds which are the most popular asset classes. However, there are other
http://www.tips-and-guides.com/2009/08/11/study-well-if-you-go-online-stock-trading/
Emotion Makes Nose a Sharper Smeller - TIME - (USA)
Know how a whiff of certain odors can take you back in time, either to a great memory or bad one? It turns out emotion plays an even bigger role with the nose, and that your sense of smell actually can sharpen when something bad happens
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1726241,00.html
Your brain lies to you - International Herald Tribune - (USA)
Your brain lies to you
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/29/opinion/edwang.php
Brown Faces In High Places - (USA)
I talked to my mother earlier this week. "That Obama," she said, "he's already had three news conferences. Calls the reporters by name. I think he's definitely letting everybody know who's going to be in charge." She sounded tickled to death as she said this, as if he was one of her former students who had finally begun to exhibit some of the promise she had detected in him when he was in her class. From the formidable phalanx of thousands who man his transition efforts to the daily announceme
http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2008/11/brown-faces-in-high-places.html
Quirkology - Welcome to Quirkology - (USA)
http://www.quirkology.com/UK/index.shtml
A Christian Perspective of Experiential Family Therapy - (USA)
In his book Man’s search for meaning (1985), Viktor Frankl states that more and more a psychiatrist is approached by patients who confront him with problems that would ideally be handled by a pastor, a rabbi or a priest. They want to know the meaning of life and yet most of them will not agree to be handed over to a clergy. Dr James Beck in his article, the integration of Psychology and Theology: An enterprise out of balance, suggests that “the mental health movement grows because of a relentle
http://relijournal.com/christianity/a-christian-perspective-of-experiential-family-therapy/
The Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time - (USA)
A reference guide to hoaxes, pranks, practical jokes, frauds, tricks, and other forms of deception.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Top/experiments/P0/
Cocktail Party Physics: survival of the fittest - (USA)
Physics With a Twist
http://twistedphysics.typepad.com/cocktail_party_physics/2008/03/survival-of-the.html
The Boy With The Incredible Brain - (USA)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4913196365903075662
The Only Certainty - (USA)
Certainty #24: "Experiential knowledge can be certain and perhaps even is the only certainty, as so many philosophers have thought." —Abraham Harold Maslow, The Psychology of Science, 2004
http://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=3887
The Contribution of Science and Creativity to Marketing Success - (USA)
Copyright (c) 2008 Bryony Thomas Marketing is a broad and varied discipline, employing visual arts, lateral thinking, behavioural psychology, and in recent years deep mathematical analysis. When looking at the skills in your marketers – should you prioritise scientific aptitude or a creative mind? In a previous article (What to say when), I outlined the key steps in an effective sales funnel, and the role of marketing at each stage. So, working on the assumption that a decision to buy starts a
http://www.mygr8blog.com/business/the-contribution-of-science-and-creativity-to-marketing-success/
TED | Talks | Al Seckel: Your brain is badly wired -- enjoy it! (video) - (USA)
TED Talks <a href="/index.php/speakers/view/id/78" target="_blank">Al Seckel</a>, a cognitive neuroscientist and master of visual illusions, explores some of the perceptual illusions that fool our eyes and our brains. Running through example after example of images that buck our expectations, he asks why such tricks make us so happy (The Pursuit of Happiness was the theme of the 2004 TED conference). He even creates some of his own illusions, challenging our notion of what's true.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/78
Seed: The Transcript: Tom Wolfe + Michael Gazzaniga - (USA)
We create and distribute original Science is Culture content that communicates science's fast-changing place in our culture to an international audience. Our mission is to help nurture a science-savvy global citizenry by increasing public interest in science and public understanding of science.
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/07/tom_wolfe_michael_gazzaniga.php
Bernard Baars - A Conscious Brain - Meanderings on Human Sentience... - (USA)
[image source] Bernard Baars is a cognitive (neuro)scientist interested in consciousness and related topics like volition and self, their brain basis and evolution, and ethical questions related to them. He's also interested in altered and “higher” states. See Wikipedia entry. This is a new blog, hosted by Nature Network, but it is off to an interesting start. A Conscious Brain - Meanderings on Human Sentience... The very word “consciousness” used to be something of a taboo in the scientifi
http://integral-options.blogspot.com/2008/11/bernard-baars-conscious-brain.html
Divining the brain | Salon Books - (USA)
Andrew Newberg discusses what happens in our brains during prayer, meditation and mystical visions. Yet understanding the brain, argues the neuroscientist, does not close the book on the nature of religious experience.
http://www.salon.com/books/int/2006/09/20/newberg/
David Brin on Science and Science Fiction - (USA)
David Brin has kindly answered the ScienceOnline09 questions about science in science fiction by e-mail - I've posted them below. His responses are below. Peter Watts has also answered the questions on his blog, from both the scientist and science fiction writer points of view, and links to all of the responses so far are collected on the original post.Here are David Brin's responses:Questions for Science Fiction Writers• Why are you writing science fiction in particular? What does the scienc
http://sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com/2008/11/david-brin-on-science-and-science.html
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