Excellent post over at Oscillatory Thoughts on the dangers of "neuro-nonsense".
Speaking on nonsense, The Neurocritic has a great post on the absurdity of neuromarketing.
Last, in nonsense, Neuroskeptic describes a court case blaming a "to be discovered gene" in pedophilia.
Why does the public tend to doubt science? From the New York Times.
20 TED talks about the brain. You're welcome, and I'm sorry for your loss of productivity!
NIH considers using "graduate student training" (loosely defined) as part of research grant evaluation.
I guess Jonah Lehrer feels lucky this week: two pieces on the lottery. The first introduces a statistician who can predict winning tickets without scratching them. The second asks why low income people spend more of their incomes on lottery tickets.
A nice mini-review in Science looks at happiness and longevity.
Mind Hacks asks how long a severed head remains conscious. In other decapitation news, PLoS has a study on the consciousness of severed rat heads here.
It turns out you can predict senate votes from their seating chart.
Gasp! A non-sensationalized take on fMRI "mind reading".
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