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Monday, July 14, 2008

Satire: 'No Values Voters' Looking To Support Most Evil Candidate

A War for the White House report from The Onion News Network. Sure to offend someone, or actually, most anyone.

"We want to be able to look at a candidate and truly believe they have no soul."
"We want the streets to run red with rivers of blood."

'No Values Voters' Looking To Support Most Evil Candidate

Skepticism Is a Small Movement

New York Review of Magazines reviews the only two skepticism magazines in the US.

When I worked in the magazine distribution business, we carried and distributed both these magazines, alongside Sedona Journal, Mountain Astrologer, and a whole mess of other magazines that provide skeptics with much of their material. I always enjoyed that quality of my job.

Skeptic

Circulation: 54,000
Date of Birth: 1992
Frequency: Quarterly
Price: $6.95
Natural Habitat: To the left of your Mythbusters! DVD collection

Skeptical Inquirer

Circulation: 50,000
Date of Birth: 1976
Frequency: Bimonthly
Price: $4.95
Natural Habitat: To the right of your Mythbusters! DVD collection

By Callie Enlow
Come one, come all! Step right up and buyourmiracle snake oil!Communicate with the dearly departed!Teach your schoolchildrenIntelligent Design!

In a world where UFOs are sighted daily, where The Secret books and DVDs go platinum, and where reality television shows center on haunted houses, Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer exist to bring us back to earth.

According to both publications, the skeptic is less a know-it-all bubble-burster than the Lone Ranger of reason battling against an onslaught of misinformation. Even Lone Rangers need some support, and modern skeptics find solace in two organizations: The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, which funds Skeptical Inquirer, and the Skeptics Society, which publishes Skeptic. Furtherance of science and the scientific method are the main goals of both groups; exposing hokum and phonies is just a perk. Members of both organizations—primarily doctors, journalists and scientists—contribute the bulk of the magazines’ features.

The two publications are the only magazines for skeptics in the country, and, given their small readerships, one wonders whether the movement might benefit from producing only one. Both Dr. Paul Kurtz, founder of The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, and Dr. Michael Shermer, co-founder of The Skeptics Society (both are de facto publishers of their organizations’ respective magazines) seem skeptical of the idea, though neither criticized the other organization or publication. When asked about the necessity for two skeptic publications, Dr. Shermer replied, “There’s a market for it and plenty of articles to publish, topics to cover [and] controversies to investigate.” Dr. Kurtz said of Skeptic, “They do good work and we’re similar in many senses, but we have a much broader base,” pointing out that The Committee of Skeptical Inquiry has many international Centers of Inquiry.

Like two scientists racing to reach the same conclusion first, both Skeptic and Skeptical Inquirer state their claims in a similar way. The magazines mainly publish stories centered on scientific controversy; predictably they are sourced to the highest standard. Talking chimps? Bogus. The data collection was flawed, according to Dr. Clive Wynn’s assessment in Skeptic. The dating website eHarmony.com’s “scientific” romantic successes? Not so amazing if you consider the company’s unpublicized failure rate, says Skeptical Inquirer editor Benjamin Radford, in his monthly column.

Read the whole review.

Relationship Trauma: How Does Emotional Pain from Childhood Get Lived Out in Adulthood?

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A great post from Dr. Tian Dayton over at Huffington Post. She spells out in pretty simple terms the mechanisms behind how childhood trauma influences how we live as adults.

Relationship Trauma: How Does Emotional Pain from Childhood Get Lived Out in Adulthood?

Posted July 13, 2008 | 09:50 AM (EST)
We are constantly anticipating and tracking each other. Through the discovery of mirror neurons, we are able to understand why and how this occurs from the biological point of view. "Mirror neurons," according to Daniel Goleman in Friends for Life: An Emerging Biology of Emotional Healing , track the emotional flow, movement and even intentions of the person we are with, and replicate this sensed state in our own brain by stirring in our brain the same areas active in the other person. Mirror neurons offer a neural mechanism that explains emotional contagion, the tendency of one person to catch the feelings of another, particularly if strongly expressed. This brain-to-brain link may also account for feelings of rapport, which research finds depend in part on extremely rapid synchronization of people's posture, vocal pacing and movements as they interact. In short, these brain cells seem to allow the interpersonal orchestration of shifts in physiology."

Understanding that emotions, particularly strong ones that are felt by one person are also anticipated, tracked and felt by those close to them, helps us to wrap our minds around why those we live with have such an impact on both our minds and our bodies. Why, when there is pain or tension or anger in the room, our gut tightens up or why we can't keep a straight face when someone we love is laughing.

When our environment is chaotic or fear inducing we may have a hard time separating ourselves emotionally from what is going on around us. We become part of the chaos internally, so to speak. If the emotional climate is overwhelming, we may have trouble "staying in our bodies", we get overwhelmed with intense emotion. When we cannot remove ourselves from what is frightening us nor fight it off, we may have to rely on more primitive forms of self protection; our animal brain takes over so to speak. If we cannot act on our own behalf and keep ourselves safe by running away or fighting back, which is often the case with children, we may freeze in place, as a form of self protection. Why do we freeze? We freeze because we're scared, because something is overwhelming us. And what happens when we freeze? When we freeze we don't process what's going on the way we do normally. We experience an altered state of consciousness during which our normal sense of a situation can become altered. Time may even be slowed down or feel fragmented. Our senses go on high alert while the thinking part of our brain shuts down.

Remember, emotion came before thinking evolutionarily speaking. We have all the instincts of an animal when we're scared but the part of the brain that can think about the situation rationally shuts down in moments of threat. The cortex, which is where thinking, reasoning and long-range planning take place, was developed later in human evolution. The two systems were developed thousands of years apart and can operate somewhat independently. That's why when we're "scared stiff" or "struck dumb" the content of the experience that would normally get thought through and processed may get more or less flash frozen or thrown out of consciousness instead. It gets stored as a frozen sense memory (read: body memory) with little reason or understanding attached to it. These painful memories may not get processed, understood and placed into the overall context of our lives. They may become banished from consciousness by one of the psychological defenses of dissociation or numbing. They may get "forgotten". One of the problems with this way of processing is that we forget that we have forgotten.
But unfortunately, what we don't know, can hurt us. What we can't consciously feel, can still have great power over us. As children from families that contain high levels of emotional pain and stress, we may find ourselves moving into adult roles carrying unconscious or only partly conscious burdens, that we aren't fully aware of, that interfere with our happiness. Unresolved pain from yesterday gets transferred onto the relationships and circumstances of today. And part of what gets us into trouble, is that our honest and genuine reactions to previous painful events may be unavailable to us, hidden even from ourselves. Consequently, we may be unable to trace our strong reactions to the circumstances in our lives today, to their origins from the past. In other words, we don't know that we don't know. We really think that our intense emotional reactions to circumstances in the present, belong entirely to the situation that is triggering them and we are unconscious of what might be driving them from underneath. Our over reactivity in the present goes unrecognized, that is, the person being triggered doesn't connect today's trigger with events from the past. They may get anxious, angry, go into a panic state or even a panic attack without any recognition of what from their past is getting triggered by their present. This is because key fragments of the original traumatic event have become inaccessible to ordinary remembering. Experience needs to be processed so that we can let it go. If a person goes into the instinctual trauma response the likelihood of developing PTSD symptoms is great. Often PTSD takes some months or even years to become full-blown which is why there is such a thing as a post traumatic stress reaction. Years after the stress is "over", our body/mind is still holding onto it. If it occurred in the context of intimate relationships, intimate relationships may act as the trigger that cause unresolved fear, pain and resentment to reemerge. The same way that a soldier may over-react to a car back firing hearing it as if it is a gun shot, an adult who has been hurt, as a child, in parental relationships may over-react to the stress of emotional intimacy when they become an adult and reexperience the feelings of vulnerability and dependence that are a part of close connection. (form more on this subject see Dr. Dayton's book Emotional Sobriety: From Relationship Trauma to Resilience and Balance).

Dicey Proposition: Animals Are Self-Aware

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This is a cool 60-Second Psych entry from Scientific American Mind.

Brief commentary from me -- yes animals are self-aware, but the degree to which they are varies with the species. For example: crows, ravens and parrots are very self-aware, as are some primates, dogs and horses to a lesser degree, and insects seemingly not so at all. And most of us probably feel that dolphins are as conscious as are humans.

Dicey Proposition: Animals Are Self-Aware

Researchers continue to search for a way inside the mind of an animal. One promising study looked at monkeys that make bets.
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The New York Times Magazine recently focused on Americans splurging on mood-altering drugs for their pets.

Inevitably, the question emerges: Do animals think and feel? Are they self-aware? Are they…conscious?

Philosophers argue we can't know what goes on in an animal's mind because they don't share human language.

But recent research is breaking down that barrier to find out how self-aware animals are. Columbia's Herb Terrace and Nate Kornell trained monkeys to make bets: The primates wagered on how well they knew something.

Thinking about one's thinking is called metacognition, and thus far it's been attributed only to humans.

In their study, published in Psychological Science, monkeys bet on whether they knew the answer to a question. They won tokens by betting correctly that they either knew or didn’t know the answer.

The monkeys did so well at the gambling that they appear to have the self-awareness required for thinking about their knowledge.

But researchers don't call this consciousness. They call it self-reflective behavior, similar to programmed robots. The monkey might be linking "a long pause" with "don't know the answer".

(Addendum: In 2006, I reported from Terrace’s lab and watched Ebbinghaus, one of the monkeys, lose a bet. He’d fling his head back and slap his forehead. I have to admit he looked quite self-aware to me.)

- Christie Nicholson

Daily Dharma - Wide Open Spaces

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A nice Daily Dharma today from Tricycle.

Wide Open Spaces

We can talk about “oneness” until the cows come home. But how do we actually separate ourselves from others? How? The pride out of which anger is born is what separates us. And the solution is a practice in which we experience this separating emotion as a definite bodily state. When we do, A Bigger Container is created.

What is created, what grows, is the amount of life I can hold without it upsetting me, dominating me. At first this space is quite restricted, then it’s a bit bigger, and then it’s bigger still. It need never cease to grow. And the enlightened state is that enormous and compassionate space. But as long as we live we find there is a limit to our container’s size and it is at that point that we must practice. And how do we know where this cut-off point is? We are at that point when we feel any degree of upset, of anger. It’s no mystery at all. And the strength of our practice is how big that container gets. . . . This practice of making A Bigger Container is essentially spiritual because it is essentially nothing at all. A Bigger Container isn’t a thing; awareness is not a thing . . .

~ Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen

News of the Future: Brain Science

A cool podcast recapping some recent brain science news (about 3o mins.).

News of the Future: Brain Science
Changesurfer Radio

The roots of empathy and political participation in the brain, the benefits of psilocybin, gene therapy for mental illness, and brain machines. (MP3)

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Orgasmic Birth [NSFW]

OK, not so sure about the title, but the video demonstrates the impact of cultural expectations on our physical reality. These women seem to be enjoying the birth process rather than begging for drugs to kill the pain. Not that I know anything about it.

via videosift.com

The Imploding American Economy & John McCain’s Very Own Terrorist In Pinstripes

Phil Gramm called us all a bunch of whiners, and said that the economic collapse facing America is purely psychological. Shaun Mullen (writing at The Moderate Voice) thinks McCain should ditch his economic terrorist if he wants to have a real economic plan. Agreed.

The Imploding American Economy & John McCain’s Very Own Terrorist In Pinstripes

July 14th, 2008 by SHAUN MULLEN, TMV Columnist

Having been chided last week by Phil Gramm as a whiner afflicted by “a mental recession” as one of millions of Americans who are struggling to keep their heads above water while the U.S. is sucked ever deeper into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, it was grimly satisfying to see Henry Paulson standing on the steps of the Treasury Building yesterday afternoon and announcing yet another massive taxpayer bailout, this one for the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage giants.

It was a bittersweet moment to be sure, and one that John McCain and his toxic campaign co-chair and chief economic adviser no doubt fail to appreciate.

Gramm should be thrown out of the McCain campaign plane at 30,000 feet without a parachute if the presumptive Republican nominee wants to make a statement about how presidential he will be when it comes to the biggest campaign issue of all — the economy. This is because Gramm, as a U.S. senator and wheeler-dealer extraordinare, is the man most responsible for the repeal of Depression-era banking regulations that have led to today’s economic turmoil, much of it triggered by the rapacious and arguably criminal actions of Wall Street investment banks.

Sentient Americans long ago became accustomed to the gap between our leaders’ words and reality, so the McCain-Gramm tandem is par for the course, and McCain’s efforts to distance himself from the snarky Texan since his “mental recession” remarks and now the mortgage institution bailout have been laughingly feeble: Gramm is suddenly called “a volunteer” who “does not speak for the candidate” but nevertheless is bound to remain an integral part of the campaign through to November when the Republican hegemony sputters to a dismal end.

Paulson’s actions, necessitated by the flight of private mortgage capital, makes the feds responsible for most mortgages, as well as student loans, at a time when the Iraq war and other politics-over-policy actions, including feel-good stimulus checks, have plunged the U.S. even deeper into debt and ravaged the dollar.

Read the whole article.

My Life in Films

OK, here we go again. Danny Fisher tagged me to do my life in films (inspired again by The Onion A.V. Club Blog), and again, I'm a film fan so I'm in. His list is pretty darn good -- some things on his list are among my all time favorite films.

Once more, however, my list will be much longer, being an old fart and such.

1967: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1968: 2001: A Space Odyssey
1969: Easy Rider (but Midnight Cowboy is a close second)
1970: M*A*S*H
1971: A Clockwork Orange
1972: The Godfather (What's Up, Doc? is a close second)
1973: Mean Streets
1974: The Godfather, Part II (Chinatown is a very close second)
1975: Nashville
1976: Taxi Driver (can't believe this lost "best picture" to Rocky)
1977: Eraserhead
1978: The Deer Hunter
1979: Apocalypse Now
1980: Raging Bull
1981: Taps (so shoot me, I liked this film)
1982: Fast Times at Ridgemont High
1983: Videodrome (but looking back, Koyaanisqatsi is a better film)
1984: Birdy (Blood Simple is a close second)
1985: Brazil
1986: Sid and Nancy
1987: Full Metal Jacket
1988: Dead Ringers & Drowning By Numbers (tie)
1989: Sex, lies, and videotape & Baxter (tie)
1990: Goodfellas & Dreams (tie)
1991: Naked Lunch (The Fisher King is a close second)
1992: Reservoir Dogs
1993: Three Colors: Blue & Schindler's List (tie), (Short Cuts close behind)
1994: Farinelli Il Castrato & Pulp Fiction (the high and the low of culture) -- The Ref would make my favorite Xmas movie list
1995: The City of Lost Children
1996: Secrets & Lies & The Pillow Book (tie)
1997: Lost Highway (The Sweet Hereafter close second)
1998: American History X
1999: Being John Malkovich & Fight Club (tie)
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (loved Pollock & Remember the Titans though)
2001: Spirited Away & Atanarjuat (tie)
2002: Hero
2003: Whale Rider
2004: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (loved I ♥ Huckabees too)
2005: Travellers and Magicians
2006: The Fountain & The Departed (tie)
2007: 300
2008, so far, Iron Man

Yeah, I know, lots of ties and mentions of other films. It's just too hard to pick only one for some years.

I tag ~C4Chaos (again) and Jay.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Notice to Marc Gafni Supporters

In the last 24 hours, I have received two phone calls and an email from Marc Gafni, an email from Jeff Bell (who wrote The Catalyst article on Gafni), and a phone call from Clint Fuhs, of the Integral Institute and iNext. All this in response to a post that only presents information already widely available on the web. My little blog has a handful of readers and poses no threat -- this isn't The Daily Kos by any stretch of the imagination.

So, as of this moment, STOP CALLING ME!

It seems as though Fuhs is working with Gafni to assemble a defense to present to Ken Wilber, who apparently has cut all ties with Gafni. One can only hope Wilber uses good judgment in this matter.

For now, I will not repost the original abusive guru post, but I will leave last night's post as is. I do not want to play along in this drama. And I wonder if Shmarya Rosenberg at Failed Messiah is getting phone calls about his post on Gafni -- after all, he is at least part of the Jewish community and carries more weight than I do.

I was open to a dialogue on this issue, and there may well be information I do not have that might change my perspective. But the inherent lack of appropriate boundaries exhibited so far suggests to me a narcissism that I want nothing to do with -- and that is unlikely to be changed by anything I say or do.

My girlfriend has worked with sexual abusers (both average guys and public figures) -- she sees all the red flags of someone who is still active in his pathology in the events of the past 24 hours, not to mention the denials of the original confession (a common pattern in sex offenders based on what I know).

If anyone in support of Gafni has something to say, post a comment on my blog, but DO NOT call me at home ever again.

"Greatest Discoveries" - Origin and Evolution of Life

A cool documentary about the major discoveries in the science of evolution.

via videosift.com

1. K-T Asteroid Theory of Dinosaur Extinction (1980)
Walter Alvarez postulates that high levels of iridium found in rock core samples around the world provide evidence that an asteroid impact caused the extinction of dinosaurs. Iridium, a common mineral found in asteroids, was discovered in the clay layer at what is known as the K-T boundary. This layer, at 65 million years, lies between the rocks of the Cretaceous and the Tertiary periods and coincides with the mass extinction of dinosaurs.

2. First Dinosaur Fossils Identified (1820s – 1840s)
In 1822, geologist William Buckland uncovers some really big teeth in England. At the time, there is no word to describe his finds. Twenty years later, in 1842, Sir Richard Owen comes up with the word "dinosaur" to describe several spectacular creatures whose fossils are discovered across England. Megalosaurus is the first dinosaur ever named.

3. Potential for Life Created (1953)
Graduate student Stanley Miller, combining the ideas of other scientists, reproduces the early atmosphere of Earth by creating a chamber containing only hydrogen, water, methane and ammonia. He boils the water and exposes the elements to an electric discharge like lightning, simulating Earth's early processes. After a week, Miller finds organic compounds have formed, including some amino acids, the "building blocks of life."

4. New Life-forms Discovered Around Hydrothermal Vents (1977)
Bob Ballard and the crew of the submersible Alvin find amazing new life-forms living completely independent of the sun's energy around deep-sea, hydrothermal vents. These undersea geysers form along volcanic mid-ocean ridges, where cold seawater penetrates deep into cracks in the Earth's crust. Heated water rises back out and the scalding vent water mixes with cold ocean-bottom seawater, creating a rising plume of warm, black fluid filled with mineral particles. The chemicals support a thriving ecosystem on the ocean floor.

5. The Burgess Shale (1909)
Charles Walcott exposes a mother lode of Cambrian fossils high in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, providing a glimpse of what life was like on Earth more than 500 million years ago. He collects more than 65,000 specimens and classifies each, discovering that the fossils are ancestors of living animals.

6. Classification of Species (1735)
Carl Linnaeus, considered the "father of taxonomy," develops a system for naming, ranking and classifying all forms of life that is still in use today (although many changes have been made). The Linnaean system, based on shared physical characteristics, uses a hierarchy starting with kingdoms divided into classes, then into orders, families, genera and species.

7. Theory of Natural Selection (1858)
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, in which he challenges contemporary beliefs about the creation of life on Earth. Darwin had served as an unpaid naturalist on the HMS Beagle, which set out on a five-year scientific expedition to the Pacific coast of South America in early 1832. The data he collected on the expedition, especially specimens from the Galapagos Islands, was the inspiration for his theories on evolution by the mechanism of natural selection. His work has been at the center of controversy ever since it was published.

8. Australopithecus Afarensis or "Lucy" (1974)
Donald Johanson discovers the partial skeleton of a 3.2 million-year-old female hominid in Ethiopia. Johnson dubs his find "Lucy" after the Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, which was playing on the radio as the team celebrated the find.

9. Laetoli Footprints (1978)
A team led by Mary Leaky discovers fossilized Australopithecus footprints in Laetoli, Tanzania. The footprints, dated to 3.5 million years ago, were formed when two individuals walked over wet volcanic ash that had hardened like cement. These human ancestors had perfect, two-footed strides, indicating that the hominids walked upright.

10. Toumai skull (2002)
Michel Brunet unearths the oldest hominid fossil to date in the desert of the central African nation of Chad. The fragments of this 6 to 7 million-year-old skull, with characteristics resembling humans, were found outside eastern and southern Africa, suggesting human evolution may have been taking place all across the continent.

A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and its Evolution

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Found this very cool, and free, book online that looks at the evolution of reciprocity and altruism in human beings.

A Cooperative Species:
Human Recciprocity and its Evolution Samuel Bowles
Herbert Gintis
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Here is a bit of the introduction:

How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it. Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (2000[1759]) p. 3.

In the pages that follow we advance two propositions. First, people cooperate and punish those who fail to cooperate not only for self-interested reasons but because they are genuinely concerned about the well being of others, care about social norms, and wish to act ethically. Contributing to the success of a joint project for the benefit of one’s group, even at a personal cost, evokes feelings of satisfaction, pride, even elation. Failing to do so is often a source of shame or guilt. Second, we came to have these “moral sentiments” because our ancestors lived in environments, both natural and socially constructed, such that groups in which most individuals were predisposed to cooperate and uphold ethical norms tended to survive and expand relative to other groups, thereby proliferating thees pro-social motivations. The first proposition concerns proximate motivations for social behavior, the second addresses the distant evolutionary origins of these cooperative dispositions.

Cooperation is prominent among the suite of behaviors that mark the emergence of behaviorally modern humans in Africa. Those living 75-90,000 years ago at the mouth of what is now the Klasies River near Port Elizabeth, South Africa, for example, consumed eland, hippopotamus, and other large game. Among the remains found there is a now-extinct giant buffalo Pelovoris antiquus that weighed almost 2000 kilograms and whose modern day (smaller) descendant is one of the most dangerous game animals in Africa (Milo 1998). The Klasies River inhabitants, and their contemporaries in other parts of Africa, almost certainly cooperated in the hunt and shared the prey among the members of their group. Evidence of trade in exotic obsidians extending over 300 kilometers in East Africa dating from considerably earlier, provides another unmistakable footprint of early human cooperation.

Like those living at Klasies River mouth, other ‘hunting apes’ quite likely cooperated in the common projects of pursuing large game, sharing the prey and maintaining group defense. Both Homo neanderthalensis and the recently discovered Homo floresiensis survived well into the late Pleistocene and hunted large game, the latter targeting the pygmy (but nonetheless substantial) elephants that had evolved on the island environment of Flores, off the coast of Indonesia.

Other primates engage in common projects among non-kin. Chimpanzees, for example, join common defensive patrols and some hunt cooperatively. Male Hamadyras baboons respect property rights in food and mates. Many species breed cooperatively, with helpers and baby sitters devoting substantial energetic costs to the feeding, protection and other care of non-kin. Social species, including many species of bees and termites, maintain high levels of cooperation. Other common forms of cooperation among non-human animals, summarized by Kappeler and van Schaik (2006) are “grooming and other forms of body care, alarm calling, predator inspection, protection against attacks by predators or conspecifics, supporting injured group members…[and] egg-trading among hermaphrodites.”

Thus, cooperation among Homo sapiens is unique not because it is absent in other animals, but for the scale on which cooperation among non-kin takes place among humans, for the role of what Robert Trivers (1971) termed “moralistic aggression” in sustaining cooperation, and for the importance of cooperation in giving human society its distinctive characteristics.

In the pages that follow we will explain how humans became a uniquely cooperative species.

Looks like an interesting book for anyone interested in evolutionary psychology.

Think About Mutation: Crazy Character Animation!

Crazy cool, from Think About Mutation.

The animation act, where each of the participants animates the mutation of the previous artist`s character until his own. Upon the finish it`ll be a cartoon with soundtrack and subtitles with the list of participants.

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Monday, July 14, 2008

Dicey Proposition: Animals Are Self-Aware

Researchers continue to search for a way inside the mind of an animal. One promising study looked at monkeys that make bets.

News of the Future: Brain Science

Sunday, July 13, 2008