Sitemap - 2008 - Neurobiology Notes
"No-Brainer" Climate Change Proposal
How long would the soccer-ball-in-afro trick work?
The importance of a skeptical attitude
Workoholism -- Does it lead to higher productivity?
What's the probability of conspiracy?
Cultural variance in saying good-bye
"H.M.", the inspiration for Memento, dies at 82
Social voting for group decision making
Congress falls victim to the planning fallacy
Applying single wall carbon nanotubes to the brain
The effect of seizures on hippocampal neurogenesis
The overrated virtue of not thinking
Why is retrodiction so shunned?
Two theories of self-education
Vowel and speaker discrimination based on brain patterns alone
Myelin sheathing originated in placoderms
Comparing men and women's taste in movies
One hundred questions for cognitive scientists
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness book notes
Electrode in mute man allows vowel production
Objectively higher states of morality?
Bad experiences and great stories
How important are recommender systems?
Increasing risk of nuclear weapon use
Neuroplasticity and the effect of brain games
How to make YouTube rating better
Fenyman on what it takes to be a scientist
Ethics in brain scanning continued
The real sustainability movement
Vassar preparatory examinations in 1877
When is it rational to appear irrational?
Relatively unmotivated Japanese workers: trend or abberation?
Behavioral sportonomics in NBA contracts
What exactly do you mean by machine, such that humans are not machines?
Taleb and Mandelbrot on chain reactions in financial markets
The failed blog post series continues
Non-Great Depression parallels to the current financial crisis
Spending our time in worlds that don't exist
A prototypical "rational" man in 1950's Sci-Fi
Nonevidence for temporal asymmetry
Bastiat on intellectual arrogance
Myelin decay leads to the decline of myriad behavioral functions
Directly controlling a functionless arm with cortical neurons
Cognitive robot research as a vehicle into human thought
Introduction to independent component analysis
Focal foul calls in biased refereeing
Why only a libertarian could engineer the bailout
Will a trickle down effect from foreign governments force the US hand on drug policy?
Mechanism for neural attenuation in attentional blink
Dynamic modeling when the brain is at rest
Will a recession cause undergrads to study harder?
Paul Krugman on silly research
Medical treatment for name forgetting
The ethical implications of a perfect lie detector
Effects of neurogenesis on cerebral ischemic recovery
The Stuff of Thought book notes
Channeling adult neurogenesis to regenerate the brain
Filtering out fanatical politicos
Random chance fuels innovation
The thin tail of imdb's top movies
Nassim Taleb on uncertainty in statistics
The myth of the rational movie rater
Explaining individual variance within species
The wisdom of Ezra Klein: don't read Ezra Klein
The cognitive dissonance of long books
Anti-nihilistic effects of "classical" education
The digg mentality and Veritocracy
Defining the ratedness of a movie
Updated thoughts on climate change
Tuesday Statisticz: Buying ballgames, how MLB payrolls correlate with success
How neuroscience interfaces with evolutionary psychology
Tracking results leads to success
How magic informs neuroscience
A primate choice experiment for category-based inference
More on the workforce/academia dichotomy
Call me the treasurer because I'm in the business of coining
Reliable spike-time coding in theory and practice
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid book notes
Linking pre-saccadic to post-saccadic stimuli in the visual field
Highly responsive flourescent protein voltage sensor
Nonuse of behavioral economics in software updates
An ideal observer model for grating illusions
Nonbelief in the implied invisible
The prisoner's dilemma in Rififi
Analyzing personality based on writing style
An application of the conformity theory
Correlations between economic and political freedom
Why aren't there more knuckleballers?
Why is baseball's All-Star Game so non-random?
Underestimating variance in foreign countries
The unintended consequences of political opinions
The Top 5 "last words" of all time
Tuesday Statisticz: Music that makes countries rich
How far will The Dark Knight drop?
Against blogging about blogging about blogging
The 10 most badass beards of all time
Do not study human cognitive biases, part II
Do not study human cognitive biases, part 1
Machine learning in brain-computer interfacing lecture
How imdb determines the top 250
More on correlation versus causation
Tuesday Statisticz: Tuesday Statisticz
Jeff Hawkins on the future of brain science
Tuesday Statisticz: Still the best
Does correlation equal causation?
Are we programmed to die, or is death a random event that increases in likelihood as we age?
Tuesday Statisticz: Do movies make you more creative?
Percieved speed varies based on visual contrast
Debunking myths with statistics
Network brain modeling of fMRI
Neurogenesis drug to be clinically tested in humans
Tuesday Statisticz: Urban carbon dioxide emissions, part II
The Indiana Jones Theory of Space Travel
Beliefs on climate change as a function of party affiliation and education
Tuesday Statisticz: The rides at Six Flag's Great Adventure
Tuesday Statisticz: Breaking down the success of superhero movies
Distance, Knowledge, and Information
More blogging from teachers that have given me B-plusses
Evolutionary psychology is fruitless without neuroscience
Tuesday Statisticz: Dog Parks and City Safety
Overconfidence bias in frisbee tossing
Tuesday Statisticz: The Dude would have voted Libertarian
Tuesday Statisticz: God vs. JK Rowling
The game theory approach to staying in touch
Notes from the Buddha, part IV
Notes from the Buddha, Part II
Bill Simmons on keeping it real
My favorite part of April 1st isn't all of the fakes...
Empty Promises and Broken Dreams
Let other people use your computer!
Tuesday Statitsticz: Rethinking Multiple Choice
Introspection supported via laboratory results
Tuesday Statisticz: Reverse Engineering the Oscars
Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin
Am I the only one that has ever read this?
Comparative advantages of conversation
Mark Cuban vs. Daniel Plainview in There Will be Blood
One man's slippery quest into pseudo-intellectualism
No country for old business models
Andy sets a new world record; everyone is amazed, the crowd goes wild