Newsletter
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For men crime doesn't pay in the eyes of justice...
By Crobar in Neurognosis
Justice is blind or at least that is the concept we'd all like to think is at work. However, a recent study by psychologists at Stockholm University found that justice isn't blind at all, well, at least not the people ...
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For Those Who Died To Protect This Country...
By Crobar in Neurognosis
Today is an important day. It is a day we take time to appreciate those who have responded to their country's request to take up arms, defend it and made the ultimate sacrifice. We should never forget what they have ...
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What's in your wallet? Forget that, what's on your copier?
By Crobar in Neurognosis
I had this video forwarded to me and found it a bit disturbing as I was unaware of this problem myself. Now I'm trying to think of all the things I've made copies of with these type of copiers.
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Too many Marines could capsize Guam....who knew?
By Crobar in Neurognosis
So apparently on March 25th of this year Representative Hank Johnson from Georgia, during a House Armed Services Committee meeting expressed concerns about moving 8,000 Marines and their families from Okinawa to Guam. If taken literally Rep. Johnson was concerned ...
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Science and Engineering in the U.S. - NSF Indicators
By Crobar in Neurognosis
Unbeknownst to many, back in mid-January the National Science Foundation released its annual report on the state of science and engineering here in the United States. For the past near decade the Science and Engineering Indictors have painted a uneventful ...
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Parents and Gene to blame for ADHD in Children?
By Crobar in Neurognosis
A recent study published in the journal Behavioral and Brain Functions reports the results of an examination of a community sample of 304 youth. They were examined for particular polymorphisms of a serotonin transporter gene (5HTTLPR). This particular variant has ...
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Trojan - more than just a condom
By Crobar in Neurognosis
I bet that title got your attention but I won't be talking about condoms. I'm sure most of you have heard of the epic poem The Illiad by Homer and its "sequel" the Odyssey. Many of you probably encountered it ...
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By Crobar in Neurognosis
I recently ran across a study about spanking children. I didn't think too much of it as I was seduced by the article I previously blogged about regarding the breakthrough with mirror neurons. This morning on my way to work ...
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I see what ya did there...and I feel ya...
By Crobar in Neurognosis
Back in the late 80's and early 90's a group of Italian scientists were measuring neuronal responses in Macaques (an old world monkey). They found, curiously, that a particular area of neurons would fire when the monkey would simply watch ...
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Another one to add to the Australopithecus bunch
By Crobar in Neurognosis
For a while in the scientific community a question has gone without answer and caused much debate. That question being, which hominid genus gave rise to our own Homo genus? Many scientists have long contended that Homo evolved from the ...