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• Malady of Numbers

  

  Organism abundance is the parameter most often requiring statistical treatment. Statistics turn our field/lab notes into estimates of population density after... Read more

  The 30 July 2012 by   Bradshaw
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• Misdiagnosing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

  

  Facial abnormalities not present in most cases. Back in 1967, when a French pediatrician tried to alert doctors to developmental problems he had recognized in... Read more

  The 29 July 2012 by   Dirkh
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• 'Embodied Cognition', by Lawrence Shapiro

  

  'Embodied Cognition', by philosopher Lawrence Shapiro, is not a book advocating for any particular brand of embodiment. Instead, Shapiro has performed an... Read more

  The 27 July 2012 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Scientists Create Jellyfish From Rat Hearts

  

  The medusoid. Photo credit: Caltech/Harvard University. The background Scientists have created an artificial jellyfish using rat hearts and silicone. The... Read more

  The 24 July 2012 by   Periscope
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• John Berryman and the Poetry of “Irresistible Descent”

  

  “The penal colony’s prime scribe.” “Will power is nothing. Morals is nothing. Lord, this is illness.” —John Berryman, 1971 A year before he committed suicide... Read more

  The 21 July 2012 by   Dirkh
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• Cracking the Tough Nut of Chimp Tool Use

  

  A paper just out in PLoSOne reports that chimpanzees, given some experience and enough of a weight difference, prefer to use heavier hammer stones when... Read more

  The 20 July 2012 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• The Summer Olympics and the “War on Doping”

  

  Time for a change in strategy? The Summer Olympics are fast approaching, and that can only mean one thing: drugs. After more than a decade, you might wonder, ho... Read more

  The 18 July 2012 by   Dirkh
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• Space Travel and Brain Injury

  

  We’ve been to the moon, astronauts have spent months floating around the space station, and the dream of many is to eventually visit Mars. But, space isn’t all... Read more

  The 17 July 2012 by   Dplylemd
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• Cigarettes: Should the FDA Mandate a National Taper?

  

  Addiction expert calls for reduced-nicotine tobacco. For years now, nicotine researcher Neal Benowitz has been a man on a mission. Dr. Benowitz, a professor of... Read more

  The 15 July 2012 by   Dirkh
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• Single Base Sequencing of 5-hydroxy-methyl CpGs is Now Possible

  

  5-hydroxy-methyl CpGs (5-hmCs) were first discovered in 2009 and shown to be enriched in the brain, but remain a mysterious epigenetic mark, despite intriguing... Read more

  The 13 July 2012 by   Neuroamer
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