Wednesday, November 07, 2012

New posts at The Best Schools

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Brain size  unrelated to intelligence,  , study finds. (The factors that govern body size may not affect brains.) Neanderthals  not so du...
Wednesday, February 02, 2011

Blog on hold until June 15, 2011

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Because I am writing a book and working for a living, I have regretfully decided that the only time management solution now possible is to p...

Us vs. Them is not in our genes (or brains), but in ourselves

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In The Chronicle Review , On the perennial subject "us vs. them," while noting significant recent books, Carlin Romano offers us ...

Catholic philosopher saint can help neuroscience?

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Aquinas in stained glass, Beao, Creative Commons Here , Dominican Br. Christopher attempts to map 13th century Catholic theologian Thomas...

Neurosexism: Cordelia Fine's expose stays in the news

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Seems Carol Tavris at the Times Literary Supplement is also interested in CordeliaFine's takedown of the supposed neuroscience behind F...

Edge Question: Which science concept would make everyone think better?

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Here is the "Edge World Question Center", a leading materialist think tank, with 2011's Question: THE WORLD QUESTION CENTE...
Tuesday, February 01, 2011

Placebo effect: A non-material cause

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In response to a recent post, Philosopher offers six signs of scientism , someone asked me to explain a non-material cause: To a materiali...

Coffee!!: Atheism as a major cause of obesity?

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Man demonstrates the ease of proving the existence of French fries. Photo by James Heilman, MD Along the lines of religion and health, a...
Monday, January 31, 2011

Neuro-nonsense: A guide to spotting examples

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At Oscillatory Thoughts, Bradley Voytek cautions against the pop science media’s simplifications of brain activity on subjects like curiosit...

Body and soul: Their relationship

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Here , Benjamin Wiker provides a working definition of the relationship between the body and the soul, by the distressing route of ... vice:...

Mindfulness resources

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Here , a friend passes on: I've pulled together some recent resources for mindfulness—most of them published within the last 3 years—in...
Sunday, January 30, 2011

Philosopher offers six signs of "scientism"

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Non-materialist neuroscientists must often deal with the claim that their work is “unscientific,” despite the fact that, for example, the pl...
Saturday, January 29, 2011

Knockout gene study in mice prompts speculations on human behaviour #3348

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Lab mice by Aaron Logan, Lightsource In "Ma's gene does different things to pa's copy" Jessica Hamzelou (26 January 20...
Friday, January 28, 2011

Flurry news revisited: It's one thing to dress baby girl chimps in pink, but ...

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In the wake of the Marc Hauser "they talk to me " scandal around research into the inner lives of primates, a friend was asked to ...