Science
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Looking Away
. . . that story does not make sense. Babies can “report their experience” and they do. They do so loudly. Persuasively. The “medical establishment” apparently managed to ignore the screams. How? Were there no women in the room? No parents? Continue reading
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Thinking about thinking, the brain, mind, and consciousness
So. I've been on a brain binge lately, watching NOVA; NOVA scienceNOW; Closer to Truth; and Through the Wormhole. The magic of DVR's – I can rewind and watch, again, the challenging bits. There are a lot of those. I have an idea. It's an idea from an untrained mind, but it's still an idea. I'm going to… Continue reading
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Creative Eccentrics/ Eccentric Creatives
A classmate brought this article (Scientific American: The Unleashed Mind, by Shelley Carson) to the Creativity class I'm taking. It explains so much! Oh, you want to read it? Try these, or click the images to go to flickr for larger views (and credits), or just go read the entire article. I highly… Continue reading
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Charlie Rose: A sadly superficial show on Human Sexuality
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=6984115637129460871:125000:3206000&hl=en Last night, I watched a Charlie Rose program on Human Sexuality. It was, mostly, boring. This was not, in fact, a program on Human Sexuality; it was a program on adult heterosexual intercourse and human male erectile dysfunction. I’m seldom bored by Charlie Rose, even when I expect to be. This time, I didn’t… Continue reading
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My Nerd Score
Via Shelley I found ScienceBlogs (gee, thanks, more must-read) and via them I found this quiz, which they are all (OK, many of them) in a very macho competition, taking: Why is my score so low? Well, because I got all the science questions wrong, that’s why. Except In E=MC2, what does C stand… Continue reading
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