Re:[tips] MRI Diagnosis

2012-12-08 Thread Mike Wiliams
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

Re: [tips] TED Talks no longer awesome?

2012-12-08 Thread Christopher Green
One word: money. Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ = On 2012-12-08, at 12:21 PM, Paul C Bernhardt wrote: > I began to notice both a proliferation and reduction i

[tips] TED Talks no longer awesome?

2012-12-08 Thread Paul C Bernhardt
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

[tips] MRI Diagnosis

2012-12-08 Thread don allen
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

[tips] What Monkey Sex Can Tell Us About Human Evolution

2012-12-08 Thread Mike Palij
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

[tips] Guys, Here's Another Excuse

2012-12-08 Thread Mike Palij
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