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Posted Have our blue gel alien overlords landed? to In the 'verse of 1001
My sister sent me this this link from the English newspaper, The Guardian. Evidently, during a hailstorm, these blue balls fell on the lawn of an Englishman in Dorset. "They were almost impossible to pick up, they were very jelly-like....
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Posted Awesome to In the 'verse of 1001
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Posted This is another test of the emergency broadcast system... to Example: Community Blog format
check this out. #2...
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Posted This is a post in the Community Blog format to Example: Community Blog format
This is the format we want. It has the author archives option....
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Posted Classic blog format to Example: Classic Blog template
One doesn't have the option of contributor activity archives in this one....
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Posted Yet another test of the emergency broadcast system to Example: Community Blog format
This is #3...
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Posted Beauty is as beauty does? to In the 'verse of 1001
I have spent quite a few minutes clicking on the before and after shots of these photo-shopped images. The researchers are proposing a numbering system to indicate how much images have been altered which would be a useful reminder to...
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Posted How smart is a dog? to In the 'verse of 1001
I found this article on dog intelligence extremely interesting. Psychologist Stanley Coren has defined intelligence--dog intelligence, that is--as having three parts: adaptive intelligence (the dog's ability to solve problems), instinctive intelligence (what the dog was bred to do) and obedience/working...
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Posted 20 rather ROTFL studies. Yes, Darth Vader did have borderline tendencies... to In the 'verse of 1001
This is the sort of thing I'd love to use in 1001 but, then again, maybe not......
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Posted Do you see the invisible man? to In the 'verse of 1001
I was fascinated by this article and these this series of photos of Liu Bolin, a Chinese artist who makes himself invisible through his art. I was also very interested in the concept behind his art, which he views...
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Posted How would one describe the personality of people who like surfing? to In the 'verse of 1001
Watch this video of a surfer on a 90 foot high wave. It's awesome. Then ask yourself whether you would ever want to do something like this. What adjectives would you use to describe the personality of someone who would...
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Posted Speaking of iconic memory (or the phi effect)... to In the 'verse of 1001
Thirty people worked for 1,357 hours over 22 months to create the stop-motion animation music video for singer Kina Grannis's sweet song, "In your arms." What did they do? They could have used CGI, of course, but they didn't. They...
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Posted Changes ahead for researchers in Psychology? to In the 'verse of 1001
The Chair of the Psychology Department sent this article from the New York Times to everyone in the department of Psychology to remind us of the "importance of scrupulous care in the ways we handle our data and report our...
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Posted This makes me laugh to In the 'verse of 1001
What makes us laugh is an interesting area of psychological study. Freud says that we laugh at things that make us uncomfortable, but other researchers say that we find incongruities funny. This picture is a sight gag. We laugh at...
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Posted How to post a video from YouTube to In the 'verse of 1001
One of my previous posts was a video from YouTube of an iPad-savvy infant puzzled by a magazine. Posting a video from YouTube on your entry is the easiest thing in the world. 1. On the video page, look for...
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Posted Our conscious awareness is a function of our ability to speak... to In the 'verse of 1001
The study guide for exam 2 asks for the evidence that consciousness is a function of the speech centers of the brain, that we can do quite complex behaviors without being aware of the real reason and that we make...
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Posted Do you remember a real event or an imagined one? to In the 'verse of 1001
Recent brain research (HERE and HERE) has found a fold in the brain (in the paracingulate sulcus) that affects how well we can discriminate between real events and imagined events. Participants were asked either to imagine the second name in...
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Posted A magazine is an iPad that doesn't work to In the 'verse of 1001
This is a fascinating video. A one-year old baby interacts with an iPad and a magazine. Her behavior suggests that she thinks a magazine is just broken. Imagine the neural developments happening in her brain, associated with this. She is...
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Posted "...For those who live to laugh out loud!" to In the 'verse of 1001
My older sister recently directed me to the "Color Sense Game", a series of images and words created by the marketing group at Pittsburgh Paints that are supposed to reveal the color palette that is "...all about you, your...
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Posted How one Psy 1001 student improved her test scores to In the 'verse of 1001
In a previous semester, I noticed a student in Psy 1001 went from exam scores around 30 on the first two exams to some of the highest scores in the class on the 3rd exam and Final. I asked her...
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Posted A visual guide to posting a url link to In the 'verse of 1001
I've just put up a post with several url links. Here's how to do that: First, you copy the url of the article you want to cite as indicated in the first image. Here I was on a blog called,...
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Posted Do we learn how to get it right because we think about what we got wrong? to In the 'verse of 1001
I was interested in this article on what helps people learn from the excellent blog, The Frontal Cortex, written by journalist and science writer, Jonah Lehrer. "It turned out that those subjects with a growth mindset were significantly better at...
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Posted Help, help! I don't know where to post on my section's blog! to In the 'verse of 1001
A student in section 24 has produced a fantastically useful post, the sort of thing that made me go, "D'Oh! I should have thought of that!!" If ever there was a demonstration that "One picture is worth 1000 words", this...
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Posted Today is the first day of the rest of my life... to In the 'verse of 1001
Have you discovered the Nice Ride bike system yet, that fantastic commuting alternative? For a small fee, you can take a bike and cycle to the next station, not just for health and pleasure, but for the betterment of urban...
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Posted Things that made me laugh... to In the 'verse of 1001
A commercial for Ikea that uses surprise (which helps memory) and humor (which makes us bond together) to increase awareness for Ikea's delivery service:...
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Posted "The Secret You" to In the 'verse of 1001
Mathematician Marcus de Sautoy becomes a human guinea pig and subjects himself to a series of experiments to test his Consciousness. 58 minutes of TV at its best....
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