Newsletter
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Oh, you’re one of “those people”…
By Crobar in Neurognosis
I ran across an interesting webpage not too long ago. The site examines life in areas rocked by tragedy the day before the terrible events. The website just happens to be run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency or FEMA ...
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By Crobar in Neurognosis
We recently had a large chunk of space rock buzz our tower - well, on an astronomical scale it was buzzing us...from about 9 million miles out. BUT, there was some concern over future passes of the asteroid Apophis. Initially ...
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Neurognosis - The Ressurection....again
By Crobar in Neurognosis
So many events in life seem to take me away from blogging: relocating, changing jobs and all the fun and excitement that goes with it. Hopefully I can now spare some time to share news and knowledge with you wonderful ...
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Which way do I go George? Which way do I go?
By Crobar in Neurognosis
A while back...let me amend that, a couple of years ago I was caught up in an interesting debate about how migrating animals – in this instance birds and eels (how it was narrowed down to just those I don’t ...
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By Crobar in Neurognosis
It seems that my last entry on this blog was way back toward the end of summer...hmm, I think I must change this. Life has a way of distracting you from things such as a blog - employment changes, moves, ...
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Just when you thought it was safe to travel to India...
By Crobar in Neurognosis
In the latest edition of the medical journal Lancet: Infectious Diseases, an article details the detection of a new superbug. The culprit is a gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae which has shown resistance to most known antibiotics so far with the exception of ...
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By Crobar in Neurognosis
On the 7th of this month a provisional research article was published online in BMC Genetics. BMC or Biomedical Central is a large publisher of open-access, peer-reviewed online journals of which BMC Genetics is one of their many journals. What ...
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Deradicalization in the World's Prisons
By Crobar in Neurognosis
A comprehensive joint British and U.S. report has detailed research addressing de-radicalization in prisons. An investigation of many programs in 15 different countries has led to some suprising and unsurprising findings. Prisons are so-called breeding grounds for the recruitment of ...
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Perceptual Bias, Health Risks and Monkey Spheres
By Crobar in Neurognosis
The “it can’t happen to me” phenomenon is often something we experience as well as seeing it in others. We seem to downplay risks involving ourselves in many respects and not simply in just health areas. However, for whatever reason ...
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Use a Love Song - Get the Digits? The French Say Yes.
By Crobar in Neurognosis
In the latest edition of the journal Psychology of Music, French researchers studied the effects that music could have on female receptiveness. The researchers put female volunteers in a room with some music playing. Some females were exposed to a ...