Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: New Scientist has a good feature article on how ‘crossing the senses‘ can help blind people ‘see’ with sounds and the like. There’s good update on the biology and effects of the recently ex-’legal high’ mephedrone over at DrugMonkey. NPR has been running a [...]
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August 21, 2010
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August 16, 2010
Scientists go rafting
The New York Times has an odd feature article on how a group of cognitive scientists went into the ‘wilderness’ supposedly as part of a “quest to understand the impact on the brain of heavy technology use”. As far as I can make out, though, the entire story is ‘scientists go rafting’. No research was [...]
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August 1, 2009
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Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:Polyamory or having relationships with multiple, mutually consenting partners, is discussed in a feature article in Newsweek.Copenhagen Business School are running an online survey asking for your opinion on the use of neuroscience in business and marketing.Experimental philosophy and our moral intuitions are tackled in an article for The Psyc
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