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Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence

posted on Sat, 03 May 2008 19:53:54 -0700

Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence “A mathematical theoretician, she has made contributions in areas like robotics and biology. Her biggest accomplishment — and at age 39, she is expected to make more — is creating a set of computational tools for artificial intelligence that can be used by scientists and engineers to do things like predict traffic jams, improve machine vision and understand the way cancer spreads.” … “Called the Bayesian approach, it centers on a formula fo

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Deaf People’s Knowledge and Views Related to Mental Health

posted on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:14:19 -0700

What Do These Numbers Mean?: Here’s an interesting data table from a research study on Deaf mental health consumers done back in 1998. One author is Deaf, the other two are hearing - it’s great they have one Deaf author/researcher on board! Even though the table is shown below out of context of the original article and without demographic data on the participants, the numbers are revealing. ASL/English: The first part of the table lists psychology-related English words and the percentages of

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Tierney’s Attempted Take-Down of Psychology

posted on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:56:28 -0700

John Tierney is a science journalist for the New York Times and he has an issue with psychology. Specifically, he has a problem apparently with cognitive dissonance (a feeling of uncomfortable tension which comes from holding two conflicting thoughts in your mind at the same time). And he thinks an economist — who hasn’t actually published any peer-reviewed research on this issue — might have proven decades’ worth of psychological research wrong. The challenge is that without peer-review, sci

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Tierney’s Attempted Take-Down of Psychology

posted on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:56:28 -0700

John Tierney is a science journalist for the New York Times and he has an issue with psychology. Specifically, he has a problem apparently with cognitive dissonance (a feeling of uncomfortable tension which comes from holding two conflicting thoughts in your mind at the same time). And he thinks an economist — who hasn’t actually published any peer-reviewed research on this issue — might have proven decades’ worth of psychological research wrong. The challenge is that without peer-review, sci

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Psychology, Mind & Neuroscience Roundup for Tuesday

posted on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:15:16 -0700

Psychology, Mind & Neuroscience Roundup for Tuesday Economist M. Keith Chen identifies a serious flaw in hundreds of human choice experiments dating back to the earliest cognitive dissonance experiments of the 1950s. Detecting lies: The Situationist How kids learn to lie. A neuroscientist discusses her own massive stroke. John Grohol argues that the FDA should be broken into two agencies. Does mild traumatic brain injury cause cognitive impairments? (Providentia) Working memory: hi-res images

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Daily Links

posted on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:20:03 -0700

The Long Emergency (tags: ecology emergency energy petroleum) Web 2.0 and Culture: A Debate This week, UC Berkeley professor Paul Duguid squared off in a debate with provocateur Andrew Keen (author of the flimsy bestseller, The Cult of Amateur). At issue here is the question: “Is the Web 2.0 a Threat to Our Culture?” How did the well-attended de (tags: berkley UC paulduguid culture amateir web2.0 andrewkeen) LinkedIn’s business directory goes live | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone (t

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Men from Mars, Women fron Venus and Research People?

posted on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:54:37 -0700

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080320/ts_afp/usfoodhealth US produces the shittiest researchers who come up with silliest stuff like men and women differing in thier of choice of food. Really? A lot of men are vegetarians and fruits and vegetables is all they can eat. I get it, there are some inherent diferrences among the sexes, I totally get it , I do I do. But not evrything is applicable to every body, at the end of the day we are individuals and generalization severes no purpose other tha

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[March 12 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: A Threat To Every Schoolchild In The U.S. - The Pharma/Medical-Industrial Complex, School-Required Vaccines, And Thimerosal… Which Studies Show CAUSE Autism (Even As The Bush Administration Cut The CDC Research Funds)

posted on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:08:34 -0700

[March 12 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: A Threat To Every Schoolchild In The U.S. - The Pharma/Medical-Industrial Complex, School-Required Vaccines, And Thimerosal… Which Studies Show CAUSE Autism (Even As The Bush Administration Cut The CDC Research Funds) Mar 12th, 2008 by Da' Buffalo “All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know …Until Now.” In The News: The Mississippi Democratic Primary go to Barack Obama but with a big split down race lines with 80 - 90 percent o

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How to submit a link

posted on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:45:59 -0800

Have a new feed to submit?  It’s easy, just follow these instructions.

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Blogging boosts your social life: research

posted on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:30:05 -0800

Blogging boosts your social life: research March 2nd, 2008 by Brett Robertson Thank you to Claudine Ryan at ABC Science Online for this article: Blogging can help you feel less isolated, more connected to a community and more satisfied with your friendships, both online and face-to-face, new Australian research has found. The research, from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, found after two months of regular blogging, people felt they had better social support and friendship n

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Beaten Into Submission By The Jews

posted on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:12:32 -0800

A woman was severely beaten into submission by the California state and federal judicial system and the Department of Justice over a Merry Christmas Balloon, a chrunched up piece of paper, a sea shell…misc items that a Napa, California, Sergeant found in front of a colleagues’  home.  It is unbelievable that the U.S. Government can behave this way with their silence. These courts of justice have ignored her substantiated complaints that they describe as “frivolous”. But, she has managed to surv

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