Wednesday Round Up #37
How to Interpret Resting-State fMRI: Ask Your Participants Resting-state fMRI (rsfMRI) reveals brain dynamics in a task-unconstrained environment as subjects let their minds wander freely. Consequentl…
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Wednesday Round Up #36
He Wants to Save Classics From Whiteness. Can the Field Survive Outstanding magazine article which uses the story of one professor – Dan-el Padilla Peralta – to examine…
Wednesday Round Up #35: Article Version
Doing something a bit different with this one – just straight-up research articles that I have found interesting and/or relevant. Striatal activity topographically reflects cortical activity Th…
Wednesday Round Up #34
The enduring allure of conspiracies The United States of America was founded on a conspiracy theory. In the lead-up to the War of Independence, revolutionaries argued that a…
Wednesday Round Up #33
The Super Mario Effect – Tricking Your Brain into Learning More Why You Should Still Wear A Mask And Avoid Crowds After Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine It may…
Wednesday Round Up #32
Anterior cingulate inputs to nucleus accumbens control the social transfer of pain and analgesia Distinct Anterior Cingulate neural circuits mediating the social transfer of pain/analgesia & fear…
Wednesday Round Up #31
5 Don’ts For Better Fat Loss (Evidence Based) Decent summary of how to start to create the long-term changes that sustain weight loss and healthy weight ‘Toxic Individualism’:…
Wednesday Round Up #30
Dylan Thomas reads “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” This reading makes the poem come even more alive, to hear its rhythms in the voice of…
Wednesday Round Up #29
Ira Glass, the Host of This American Life, Breaks Down the Fine Art of Storytelling Doing the Biocultural Work with Dr. Jada Benn Torres and Dr. Gabriel A…
Wednesday Round Up #28
Trees Talk to Each Other in a Language We Can Learn, Ecologist Claims Like humans, trees are extremely social creatures, utterly dependent on each other for their survival.…
Wednesday Round Up #27
Apocalypse Then and Now Pine Ridge sits on plains that are typically arid, so these extreme weather events were unusual—a result of shifting jet streams and increasing ocean…
Wednesday Round Up #26
A World Without Ice and Daniel Bird Tobin – Climate Data Meets Art This episode of Warm Regards, the second of two that explore climate data as art,…
Wednesday Round Up #26
Human-Animal Interactions – The Badger Version The biology of dads The finding was fascinating in light of seminal research in birds, which had established that testosterone facilitated aggressive…
Wednesday Round Up #24
Photo: Most detailed model of a human cell to date, obtained using x-ray, NMR and cryoelectron microscopy datasets. For more photos and info, see here. The Denialist Playbook…
Wednesday Round Up #23
Rigorous Study Backs A Psychedelic Treatment For Major Depression The study of cancer patients “led us to consider whether or not this treatment might be effective for people…
Wednesday Round Up #22
A room, a bar and a classroom: how the coronavirus is spread through the air The risk of contagion is highest in indoor spaces but can be reduced…
Wednesday Round Up #21
How the Awful Stuff Won The distinction between the religious fanatics and the click-chasers collapses still further as Phelps-Roper explains that, because Westboro’s fanatical conception of predestin…
Wednesday Round Up #20
Laziness Does Not Exist I’ve been a psychology professor since 2012. In the past six years, I’ve witnessed students of all ages procrastinate on papers, skip presentation days,…
Wednesday Round Up #19
The Consciousness and Metacognition YouTube Channel Here’s one, a general overview of why understanding the brain can be useful to different people, from researchers to social workers. Introduction…
Wednesday Round Up #18
This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic There are COVID-19 incidents in which a single person likely infected 80 percent or more of the people in…
Wednesday Round Up #17
How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past They came up with equations to describe how the brain might in theory encode time indirectly. In their scheme,…
Wednesday Round Up #16
My Octopus Teacher Gordon W. Hewes — a four-field anthropologist with an encyclopedic, visual sensibility. He was interdisciplinary before it was cool. There’s No Homunculus In Our Brain…
Wednesday Round Up #15
America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral Army ants will sometimes walk in circles until they die. The workers navigate by smelling the pheromone trails of workers in…
Wednesday Round Up #14
This photo in the Guardian illustrates so well the social forces, and their material approaches to society and change. The caption reads, “Protesters demanding justice for Breonna Taylor…