Two features of the study seem fishy. The first is the manual
designations of individual brain areas. Although they studied the
reliability of the designations and
appeared very careful, there must be some persistent error in defining
the brain areas. The second is that people making these de
One word: money.
Chris
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On 2012-12-08, at 12:21 PM, Paul C Bernhardt wrote:
> I began to notice both a proliferation and reduction i
I began to notice both a proliferation and reduction in quality of the listings
on the TED site a year or more ago. My first concerns came up a few years back
when we had a job applicant use a decent, but far from excellent, TED talk as
part of their teaching demonstration. It was nearly pop psy
I just read the following study in PLOS one titled: Anatomical Brain Images
Alone Can Accurately Diagnose Chronic Neuropsychiatric Illnesses.
It can be found here:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0050698
The claims of the study seem impressive:
"In MRI datase
This popular media article on transmission of genes from interbreeding by
different types of monkeys offer some suggestions about whether humans
and Neanderthals interbred and how many of such attempts produced viable
offspring; see:
http://www.livescience.com/25361-monkeys-show-why-it-s-hard-to-p
Somehow this didn't catch the attention of Tipsters when it first came out
but it might be of interest to some now:
http://www.livescience.com/23500-why-men-love-breasts.html
To increase the educational value of this topic, here are additional
facts/factoids:
http://www.livescience.com/21434-bre
