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Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about something that comes to my mind from time to time. That is, the relation of physics and mathematics with psychology. I have always been a firm believer that mathematics and physics are really the basis of everything and that psychology should have as its goal the unification [...]

Is he self-aware?
Today we’re dealing with some revolutionary research concerning the subject of self-awareness in birds.
 
Mirror-Induced Behavior in the Magpie (Pica pica): Evidence of Self-Recognition Prior H, Schwarz A, Güntürkün O PLoS Biology Vol. 6, No. 8, e202 doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060202
The above research was published a few days ago in PLoS Biology. It is the research that I believe will [...]

Remember what we were saying at How the Dark Knight, cartoons and video games make you smarter and what this had to do with the Flynn effect. I found more proof to support my theories!
Take this link I found in Sharp Brains: Videogames for Cognitive Training?
It commented on this report Playing Video [...]

I found this video the other day on YouTube and I wanted to share it with you (if you can’t play the video click the link below it)
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In this video Thomas Szasz explains the core of his philosophy in a 5 minutes video. It’s a good start for those of you who have [...]

Encefalitis is a blogzine, that is, a magazine composed of blog posts.
I first thought about piecing together my posts together into a pdf file, so as to be able to classify them and find them easier. But later I discovered that this could make an excellent magazine, that anyone can get and print and read [...]

Today we’re revisiting the Dark Knight. This time we’ll move in a different context, letting the Dark Knight inspire us into a conversation about the relation between cartoons, intelligence, and the IQ gap between generations called the Flynn Effect. So let’s start right away!
 
Psychablog: A Cohort Effect to The Dark Knight Experience?.
I stumbled upon this [...]

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I found this report the other day on Eurekalert. The article reports:
"Rice University’s Connexions, one of the most-visited online sites for open-educational resources, today announced it is making a popular textbook available free this fall for one of the country’s most-attended transfer-level community college courses — elementary statistics. The book, "Collaborative Statistics," has been used [...]

Neurophilosophy has an interview with Heather Perry: Lunch with Heather Perry. In case you don’t know her, she is an individual who decided to trepan herself. Trepanation is a procedure in which you open a hole in the skull. It was mainly used in ancient times to release the bad spirits, but it is [...]

Today’s subject is the social information flow. I had expressed a few ideas in a previous article called Dangerous Ideas: Information and cultural revolution in the age of the internet or metacognition in the modern society. A recent article I found steered my thoughts for once again so I felt compelled to return to this [...]

Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons

I found the above link in Mind Hacks. It talks about a project of photographer Jenn Ackerman. She is making an essay on Kentucky’s correctional facility for prisoners with mental illness called Trapped:Mental Illness in America’s Prisons. For she now she has made an excellent video, that contains an overview [...]

Providentia just released part 3 of A Shocking Discovery series describing the use of ECT throughout the history of psychiatry. It also includes a few remarks about antipsychiatry and closes with a very reasonable debate concerning the use of shock therapy as a treatment.
A Shocking Discovery (Part Three)
A Shocking Discovery (Part Two)
A Shocking Discovery (Part [...]