Found two extraordinary humorous blogs:
1. The world on file cards: http://indexed.blogspot.com/
2. All about Hitler: http://blogs.taz.de/hitlerblog/
Back to the daily scientific work:
1. Can Brains Point the Way?
2. Is Ambiguity Bad?
3. Music and memory: How the songs we heard growing up shape the story of our lives
4. A simple metric to infer personality from facial expression
5. Mirror self-recognition in Magpies
6. The smell of fear
7. Mirror neurons, hubs, and puppet masters
8. Evil and Theodicy, Part 1: Are Happiness and Virtue Linked?
9. Evil and Theodicy, Part 2: Can Happinees and Virtue Be Linked?
10. Evil and Theodicy, Part 3: Kant, Authenticity, and Lament
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Friday, 15 August 2008
Points of Interest 13. August, 2008
キタ━━━(゜∀゜)━━━!!!!!, (゜どうも，おひさしぶりです!
1. The genetic component to European ethnic groups. You can see a clear distinction between individuals with northern from southern European ancestry. Interestingly, these genetic boundaries often mark linguistic boundaries too: Genetic, Geographic, And Linguistic Structure Of European Populations
2. "Jugemu" is a rakugo, verbal entertainment, which everybody in Japan knows: Jugemu Jugemu Go-Kō-no-Surikire Kaijari-suigyo no Suigyō-matsu Unrai-matsu Fūrai-matsu Kū-Neru Tokoro ni Sumu Tokoro Yaburakōji no Burakōji Paipo Paipo Paipo no Shūringan Shūringan no Gūrindai Gūrindai no Ponpokopii no Ponpokonā no Chōkyūmei no Chōsuke
3. Are nouns and verbs represented differently in the brain? A typical view is that they are, with nouns relying more on temporal cortices and verbs on frontal regions: Representation of nouns and verbs in the brain
4. Participation in most sports requires agility, impeccable timing and the planning and execution of complex movements, so that actions such as catching a ball or throwing it into a hoop can be performed. Performing well at sports also requires anticipating and accurately predicting the movements of others: The baller's brain (and his pinky)
5. Did the introduction of cooking, have caused a relaxation of selective constraints on diet-related genes: Advent Of Cooking & The Big Cognitive Leap In Human Evolution
6. Totally awesome. I think bionics is the future technology: Robot controlled by "brain" in a culture dish
7. The top thirty 顔文字 (kaomoji/emoticons) used in Japan: Top thirty Japanese emoticons
8. Rap version of LHC from CERN - soon they'll blow up the world: Large Hadron Rap
9. Post about the Japanese pronoun nanji: I want to talk about you
10. The eye tells the brain when to plasticize
11. Mélange
12. England's rock art
13. Dinosaur Supertree
14. Collectie Ver Huell
15. Simulated Linguistic Evolution In The Laboratory
16. Testosterone and aggression, or what Frank's Red Hot Sauce has to do with handgun violence
17. Tone deafness and bad singing may not go hand in hand
18. Do you choke under pressure? Depends on what you're trying to accomplish
19. If you want to persuade a woman, look straight at her
20. 'Beer goggles' are real - it's official
21. US boasts of laser weapon's 'plausible deniability'
22. Has porn become mainstream? Not really
23. Did the Baldwin Effect Give Us Language?
24. On Human Nature
1. The genetic component to European ethnic groups. You can see a clear distinction between individuals with northern from southern European ancestry. Interestingly, these genetic boundaries often mark linguistic boundaries too: Genetic, Geographic, And Linguistic Structure Of European Populations
2. "Jugemu" is a rakugo, verbal entertainment, which everybody in Japan knows: Jugemu Jugemu Go-Kō-no-Surikire Kaijari-suigyo no Suigyō-matsu Unrai-matsu Fūrai-matsu Kū-Neru Tokoro ni Sumu Tokoro Yaburakōji no Burakōji Paipo Paipo Paipo no Shūringan Shūringan no Gūrindai Gūrindai no Ponpokopii no Ponpokonā no Chōkyūmei no Chōsuke
3. Are nouns and verbs represented differently in the brain? A typical view is that they are, with nouns relying more on temporal cortices and verbs on frontal regions: Representation of nouns and verbs in the brain
4. Participation in most sports requires agility, impeccable timing and the planning and execution of complex movements, so that actions such as catching a ball or throwing it into a hoop can be performed. Performing well at sports also requires anticipating and accurately predicting the movements of others: The baller's brain (and his pinky)
5. Did the introduction of cooking, have caused a relaxation of selective constraints on diet-related genes: Advent Of Cooking & The Big Cognitive Leap In Human Evolution
6. Totally awesome. I think bionics is the future technology: Robot controlled by "brain" in a culture dish
7. The top thirty 顔文字 (kaomoji/emoticons) used in Japan: Top thirty Japanese emoticons
8. Rap version of LHC from CERN - soon they'll blow up the world: Large Hadron Rap
9. Post about the Japanese pronoun nanji: I want to talk about you
10. The eye tells the brain when to plasticize
11. Mélange
12. England's rock art
13. Dinosaur Supertree
14. Collectie Ver Huell
15. Simulated Linguistic Evolution In The Laboratory
16. Testosterone and aggression, or what Frank's Red Hot Sauce has to do with handgun violence
17. Tone deafness and bad singing may not go hand in hand
18. Do you choke under pressure? Depends on what you're trying to accomplish
19. If you want to persuade a woman, look straight at her
20. 'Beer goggles' are real - it's official
21. US boasts of laser weapon's 'plausible deniability'
22. Has porn become mainstream? Not really
23. Did the Baldwin Effect Give Us Language?
24. On Human Nature
Sunday, 10 August 2008
Resistance is futile
Soon I'll be one of them, i.e. accepted for computational linguistics at Heidelberg - hooray!
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