Category Archives: science

Mind Over Matter

2 Sep 2008 – 11:08

Following the Great Fish Fraud, Edward Dolnick wrote an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times today, Fish or Foul?, which is a reminder that our minds play great tricks on us. The point is simple. Even when we think we know something, we are often wrong. And experts are just as bad as novices—maybe [...]

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That Bird Can Dance!

27 Aug 2008 – 14:28

Birds are indeed interesting creatures—and they may have more connections to human cognition than previously thought. In addition to self-recognition, some birds like Cockatoos may have a “sense of rhythm [that] help[s] explain how the [human] brain relates to music”: Snowball’s Chance. Two things struck me about this story: one is that Snowball, the dancing [...]

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