I want a way to exercise the hippocampus. So far, I have been doing Google searches for phrases like ‘hippocampus activation’ in order to discover research. Particularly, I have been looking for research that shows increased neuronal activity or blood flow to hippocampus using fMRI or PET. My theory is that, if you practice the [...]
You can submit feature requests for the next version of System.Xml over on Dare’s blog. XPathReader and XPathObjectNavigator are my favorites.
[via Scripting] Some people are offended by the new Bush ad, which shows a montage of attacks on Bush, including some attack ads which compare Bush to Hitler. The clips are offensive, apparently deliberately to say ?look at the offensive, wild-eyed hyperbole that our opponents are propagating?. With the exception of the Howard Dean clip [...]
I’ve finally been to the new, internationally acclaimed, Seattle Public Library. I’ve been a few times, checked out and returned books. Since everyone so far has offered glowing reviews, I’ll focus on the things I don’t like about the library.
First, there are three elevators, and 10 or more floors. The elevators are the only way [...]
I have been thinking recently about two laboratory measures for aggression and one particular experiment in game theory; and how they are related:
Taylor Aggression Paradigm: Give somebody a list of sentences; some of which can be interpreted positively, some negatively, and some neutral. Scatter several ambiguous sentences in the list (?The painter drew the knife?). [...]