Encefalus

I was reading the other day on Psychology Today this article: Dropping atomic bombs on Japan was an act of utmost compassion. The author of the post is Satoshi Kanazawa who is also the co-author of the book Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters. I have not read the book, so I can’t comment on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I just felt the urge to throw some random rant.
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY SUCKS
I just had to say it.
Psychology became a science at 1879 at Leipzig by Wilhelm Wundt. It was seperated from philosophy since what seperates science from philosophy is the experimental procedure that science makes use of.
It all started with simple psychophysical experiments trying [...]

I found this link in Providentia
A Shocking Discovery (Part One)
It speaks about the discovery of the electroshock by the psychiatrists in the 1930s. As it seems, this is a series of articles discussing this issue. I felt compeled to offer my personal viewpoint concerning a few facts about psychiatry.
The above link may appear a [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]