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News Flash: Genders Are Different

February 25, 2009

The Wired Blog recently brought to light a story about the differences in the way male and female brains process the perception of beauty. An excerpt from the blog:
In men, images they consider to be beautiful appear to activate brain regions responsible for locating objects in absolute terms — x- and y-coordinates on a grid. [...]

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Does Finding Bin Ladin Help Marketing?

February 24, 2009

John Tierny posted a story to his blog last week that related to an interview I saw on, of all places, The Colbert Report. In it, Tierny reports on the study by UCLA geography professor Thomas W. Gillespie in which he applies two aspects of the island biogeographic theory to posit theories on where Osama [...]

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What’s The One Thing?

November 5, 2008

I’ve always considered myself a competent writer. Generally speaking, the process of stringing together coherent thoughts has never been something that has given me great difficulty. Heck, I’ve got a degree in journalism and have been writing over the course of my entire professional career.
But today, I’m stuck.
I’ve found it absolutely impossible to adequately reflect [...]

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Of Ants and Humans

November 19, 2007

Carl Zimmer reported in the New York Times over the weekend that scientists have a better idea as to why ants and other swarming animals can work so efficiently. Turns out, according to Iain Couzin, a mathematical biologist at Princeton and Oxford, that there are a series of trails ants leave and rules they follow [...]

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Question of the Day

November 17, 2007

What are we doing here?
Questions are important to me. Like staying up all night for my project the other night, I hope I never take curiosity for granted. Lately, my questions have verged on the existential. Nothing new for a fellow in the waning days of his third decade.

Northern Planner had an interesting post on [...]

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Technology is a swingset?

July 26, 2007

PSFK had a link to a Reuters article this morning about how the ubiquity of technology has caused most kids to not even acknowledge the innovations that package their lives and drive many of their social interactions.
The comparison of today’s digital devices to the swingsets of my youth as a force in socialization was an [...]

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