Saturday, February 28, 2009
NS just put out an article by Amanda Gefter on red flags for spotting hidden religious agendas in “scientific” arguments. I’ve dealt with every single one of these, so it was nice to see someone else put it in print. To summarize Gefter’s excellent opinion piece:
You may be dealing with a hidden religious agenda if [...]
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Mon affiche et les titres ont fini, et j’irai a Tampa dans une semaine. Apres Tampa, le monde. Maintenant, je dois ecrire l’introduction pour ma dissertation honorifique des neurosciences. Il y a beacoup d’articles scientifique pour va lire. Beacoup de travail.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edjx_yYpyOQ
In other news, leave it to Lovelock to tell it like it is again. New [...]
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This is why molecular neurobiologists should take evolutionary psychology (as should psychologists).
Neo-Freudianism spawned by anthropocentrism will do nothing but retard progress in neuroscience.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
I wasn’t planning on posting today, but I just got the summary of my neurochem class’s feedback on my presentation, and this one comment is too funny not to share.
So, for some background, I wrote a paper on the phylogenetic history of acetylcholine, which I later presented to a neurochemistry class. Now, there really [...]
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
I met Erika and Greg a few days ago, who tell me that talking to me is a little odd because people do not say “sir” or “ma’am” in California. Very nice people, both of them. They’ve just finished writing a new intro psych textbook, which, from what I could garner from our short time [...]
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
I just finished writing an abstract to submit for a conference in March. Whoo, presenting is a lot of work.
If any of you can see me on Gchat, you know that I have daily quotes that I put up under my availability. Sometimes these are things I overhear walking around campus or in class. Other [...]
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
“Thus, if we wish to gain a true understanding of brains in general, and EF in particular, we would be wise to abandon the mountain of philosophical and psychological constructs based on symbolic logic and more often than not mired in anthropocentrism.”