Encefalus

BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Men’s sexual orientation recognised in a fraction of a second.
The above link points to a very interesting research (Brief exposures: Male sexual orientation is accurately perceived at 50 ms). The experimenters showed a series of faces to the subjects and the subjects could identify with 57% accuracy which of them were homosexual. The [...]

Spheres of Influence: Scientific American.
The above was article was published in Scientific American Mind
Its author is Michael Gazzaniga one of the most respected figures in neuropsychology.

Michael Gazzaniga
If you don’t know him, he’s the guy who made the most important work in the lateralization of the two hemispheres. You’ve probably heard before that the left hemisphere [...]

I found this article which had been published in sunday times and written by Steven Pinker
In defense of dangerous ideas
It’s was first published in the Edge where various scientists expressed their opinions on the subject. Here is the start of the article

 
Steven Pinker
In every age, taboo questions raise our blood pressure and threaten moral panic. [...]

Why play a losing game? Study uncovers why low-income people buy lottery tickets.
This above link is some news posted on Eurekalert. It’s a study proving that poor people are more likely to buy lottery tickets
"In the study, published in the July issue of the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, participants who were made to feel [...]

 
I had the luck to watch the Dark Knight in the world premiere. This movie just stuck in my head and I couldn’t get it out. I believe that it has steered many issues and there are a lot of things to say about it, so I decided to write a post and publish some [...]

Press Release: Neuropolicy Center Confronts the Biological Basis of Collective Decision Making
I found the above link in the Neuromarketing (Neuromarketing » Neuropolicy Center at Emory). It’s a press release about the opening of a new center for the correlation between brain and political behavior. 
I believe that we start to see a pattern here. At the [...]

Ex-cop may be charged in case of man Tasered to death - CNN.com.
All right. This is all wacked up.
 
This news article publicshed in CNN raises three important issues:
1)Drugs
2)Guns
3)Law inforcement
I want this to be a series of three articles treating all 3, saying as much as I can say in a few words. The first installment [...]

Tough Choices: How Making Decisions Tires Your Brain: Scientific American
This is a link to an article published in Scientific American
It describes, in short, how our brain works in some ways like a muscle. It can be depleted after repeated use, leading to false choices. What is so interesting about this article is not the fact [...]

en·ceph·a·lon

(n-sf-ln)
n. pl. en·ceph·a·la (-l)
The brain of a vertebrate.

[Greek enkephalon, from neuter of enkephalos, in the head; see encephalo-.]
 

Encephalon comes the greek enkephalos which means "that which is inside the head". That is of course of the brain. Encephalous means that which possesses a head. The name Encefalus signifies three things: 
1)It’s a direct mention to [...]