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Article at io9. The paper is available here. The researchers showed monkeys specific images and then trained them to select those images o

A dialogue discussing how thermodynamics limits future growth in energy usage, and that in turn limits GDP growth, from the blog Do the Math

A new article looking at the jury system rationally and scientifically. Excerpt: Courtroom dramas accurately portray the suspense that

A great column by Chris Sims at the Comics Alliance. Excerpt: Because that's the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode

Uri Bram, a recent Princeton graduate, has just published an ebook called Thinking Statistically. The book is aimed at conveying a few impor

Restoring Memory, Repairing Damaged Brains (article @ PR Newswire) Using an electronic system that duplicates the neural signals associat

Functioning Synapse Created Using Carbon Nanotubes: Devices Might Be Used in Brain Prostheses or Synthetic Brains (article @ ScienceDaily)

Does the Universe Need God? (essay by Sean Carroll) In this essay, Sean Carroll: - Dissolves the problem of "creation from nothing": A p

Galton Visualizing Bayesian Inference (article @ CHANCE) Excerpt: What does Bayes Theorem look like? I do not mean what does the formul

The Trouble with Bright Girls (article @ the Huffington Post) Excerpt: My graduate advisor, psychologist Carol Dweck (author of "Mindse