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  • New Science Restores Brain Buzz

    Slate published this piece on April 25, accurately stating that the science didn't support the idea that mental exercise could have any kind of substantial effect on our ability to think. But on April 28, Susanne Jaeggi and Martin Buschkuehl published the results of a new study on Improving Fluid Intelligence by Training Working Memory (PNAS April ...
    Posted to Brains! by brain-exercises on July 20, 2008

  • Mind Reading

    It's easy to get over-excited about any research involving brain scanning and jump to the conclusion that ''mind reading'' is right around the corner. Jack Gallant, the lead author on the study described, clarified the destinction between the accomplishments of this study and actual mind reading, in an interview with Nature News ...
    Posted to Human Nature by neutrino on March 8, 2008

  • Cool Brain Games

    Have you guys seen Lumosity? I encourage you all to take a free tour of the online brain software for a 14-day free trial with no risk. The online games will give you a chance to test your mind and play these fun games. You may find Lumosity at: www.lumosity.com Lumosity, is the web's premier online Brain Games software. Lumosity offers ...
    Posted to Gaming by c.klein on February 20, 2008

  • OBESITY

    AS A VERY LARGE PERSON,I DO NOT LIKE IT AND HAVE MANY AILMENTS DUE TO THE FAT. I AM DISABLED AND CANNOT WORK, SO THIS SUBJECT HITS AT HOME. INSTEAD OF 500.00 OF MEDICINE EVERY MONTH WHY CAN'T MEDICARE SPEND 30.00 FOR DIET PILLS OR A ONE TIME COMPLETE COVERAGE OF LAP BANDING? THEY WOULD SAVE MONEY,I COULD GO BACK TO WORK WITHOUT ALL MY BACK,LEG AND ...
    Posted to Science by BIG LADY on February 20, 2008

  • Re: Experience

    OH! Come on folks. Who do you think ran the White House those 8 years when Bill Clinton was in office. After all, remember the catch phrase during an interview of, ''WE, the President.'' I don't want either of the Clintons back in the White House. Put Hillary there and all the FEMALE Pages, White House Staff, and Civil Servants will have to ...
    Posted to Chatterbox by NeedForSpeed on January 18, 2008

  • Re: Beware of Liberals and Their Lies

    CaliforniaDreamin: While it is nearly impossible to debate with liberals, you can be on the lookout for their reprehensible, underhanded tactics, the better to understand your own position with respect to theirs. Please allow me to explain.Liberals lie. First and foremost, they lie. Their arguments are invariably dishonest, hypocritical, ...
    Posted to Chatterbox by gzuckier on January 2, 2008

  • Brain scans are not fingerprints of behavior.

    In the real world of medicine, signs and symptoms that might relate to brain function or rather dysfunction (based on science) are routinely investigated via CT scans , MRI scans PET scans or other. If the scans reveal a physiological basis for the patients presenting symptoms (behavior) then the diagnosis is made. Usually stroke, in the form of ...
    Posted to Science by iralarry on December 8, 2007

  • Re: The need for detail

    He might have been a better writer to have replaced ''those Nigerian babies'' with ''these babies'' because after all 5% of the babies of European descent lack the gene(s) too. Thanks for reminding us of the context of Saletan’s quote. Of course there is a lot more to it than that. Firstly: It is not 5% of all babies of European descent ...
    Posted to Human Nature by brerlou on November 30, 2007

  • The new phrenology - again

    I'm afraid this article is just a collection of the poor arguments that have been used to bolster pseudoscience throughout history. To begin with, there is not even a good operational definition of what ''intelligence'' is. IQ is well known to be a completely flawed metric as it measures the ability to take the test (which ever one is presented) ...
    Posted to Human Nature by neurothing on November 22, 2007

  • Implanting animal brains in robots

    Sci-Fi writer Anne McCaffrey wrote a book called ''The Ship Who Sang,'' years ago. The premise was that smart, but physically deformed people could have their brains, spinal cords and major nerves transplanted into machines. This gave the machines the processing ability of a bright human and gave the bright human a ''shell'' that could do things, ...
    Posted to Human Nature by sssterling on November 14, 2007
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