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2013-06-14 17:21:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Argument that unpaid internships are supporting class privilege in journalism. First thought was that the same is almost certainly true for scientific research assistants as well. Thoughts? http://bit.ly/11B8kDG

2013-06-13 19:12:23 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Regarding the new science prizes offered by Milner, +Mark Zuckerberg, +Sergey Brin, etc:

"'I find it offensive that people are trying to either borrow the prestige of the Nobel, or buy it,' says Frank Wilczek, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, who won a share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004. 'The suspicion is that these provide more benefit to the egos of the founders than to science.'"

Yeah dude, totally unlike the prestigious and exalted ALFRED NOBEL prize which totally wasn't about a man trying to buy his way out of terrible public perception in order to sculpt a legacy.

http://bit.ly/11YSSB8 

2013-06-12 01:33:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

One nice thing about writing (blogging, peer-review, whatever) is rereading your own words years later and seeing where you agree or disagree with your past self.

2013-06-08 19:18:02 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Exactly 10 months ago I responded to a friend's email about the Jonah Lehrer plagiarism scandal, "He'll have a redemption. May write a memoir about it." In the Gladwell/Lehrer vein I'll dub this the "Stockholm sucker effect": http://slate.me/11MNfG7 

2013-05-31 20:46:49 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Please go read (and share!) this. Smaller Totems is a new webcomic by very close friends of mine, +Roby Duncan and +Lewis Lain: http://smallertotems.com/

2013-05-29 17:36:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

The +Amazon.com reviews for the novelization of the Bible TV series are great: "Finally, all the Bible's stories in one place!" http://amzn.to/16pzaat

2013-05-28 16:43:46 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

A machine to weigh the soul by the Neuroskeptic. I want to recreate this for +Maker Faire or +Burning Man! http://bit.ly/11Ysizr

2013-05-24 18:22:39 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Best story I've read this year. Reawakenings by @virginiahughes. Just go read it. http://bit.ly/11agtP0

2013-05-23 21:03:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Are there really as many neurons as stars in the Milky Way? No. My inaugural post  over at +Nature Publishing Group's Scitable blog: http://bit.ly/10kbJLf 

2013-05-22 05:20:14 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 5 +1s)

My TED video (cartoon w/ my voice-over) about my rain-tread hypothesis for why we get pruney fingers. 

2013-05-20 15:40:55 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

How can we enhance working memory? My inagural post over on the +Society for Neuroscience BrainFacts site! http://bit.ly/13BOZUn

2013-05-16 19:40:17 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 2 +1s)

Beer Mapper. Awesome application of text-mining and machine learning. I so badly want this to be a finished app! http://bit.ly/16me7W2

2013-05-14 00:04:44 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

Oof. Only 6% of Americans used Google+ once per month last year.

2013-05-07 16:00:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

!!!    \m/ >_< \m/    !!!
Hypothesis > test > awesome result. Totally ADDICTED to this feeling. #science

2013-05-06 22:36:05 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

I should start a website for journalists/politicians/scientists/friends/everyone called "It's More Complicated Than That".

2013-05-06 03:55:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Stapel, Smeesters, and now Dijksterhuis. Male dutch social psychologists are falling faster than male US politicians caught at rest stops.

2013-04-29 23:44:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

My laptop would have been the world's fastest computer in the mid-90s. http://bit.ly/10POv1S

2013-04-29 18:35:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Baboon drawn in "dinosaur style" (no fur, little musculature, etc.)
http://i.imgur.com/lFEfyVD.jpg

2013-04-26 16:08:02 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Morning brain teaser: yesterday the temperature was -20F. Today it's twice as warm outside. What's today's temperature?

2013-04-25 17:36:38 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

"We can recreate the first language using statistics!" This is seriously very common among physicists that come into neuroscience... http://bit.ly/Y4B5NW

2013-04-19 16:17:26 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Science creates wonder. Not all human endeavors should be optimized in line-item budgets. My latest: http://bit.ly/11lAOnY

2013-04-17 16:19:18 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Primer on sleep. Quick post as I muse on a complex topic: http://bit.ly/100eLPv

2013-04-06 02:39:47 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

Yes I'm overthinking it.  NIH Director Francis Collins appears on +The Colbert Report and gives Stephen Colbert a fake EEG http://bit.ly/YYFW17

2013-04-02 18:41:54 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

I'm very proud of her! :D My wife Jessica is featured in a +The Bold Italic  article about prominent Bay Area programmers! She's the only mother on the list. http://bit.ly/14Lkalu

2013-04-01 21:08:58 (10 comments, 3 reshares, 10 +1s)

Personal opinions within.

2013-01-19 22:49:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Bradley Voytek was tagged in Bradley Voytek's album.

2012-12-26 20:42:58 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 10 +1s)

2012-12-19 21:51:22 (5 comments, 5 reshares, 11 +1s)

Anscombe's quartet. Correlation does not equal... correlation: or the importance of actually looking at your data. http://bit.ly/UFeNeM

2012-12-15 20:24:51 (2 comments, 2 reshares, 6 +1s)

Hey what's that in your mouth? Amazingly weird and fun answer to "What are some of the most interesting parasites?" on +Quora http://b.qr.ae/12fRn5v

2012-12-12 23:07:22 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Uberdata: Comparing Apples to Googles (to Bings to MapQuests) http://bit.ly/XdypHr

2012-12-12 18:48:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Olfactory "white noise". The ultimate in smell masking. Noam Sobel (the lead researcher) is cool. I really liked him when we were at Berkeley together. He's also working on sniff-based brain-computer interfaces! http://bit.ly/UBZCTX

2012-12-10 17:47:17 (2 comments, 7 reshares, 6 +1s)

Why do shower curtains billow inward? Simple answer on +Quora, counterintuitive for many. http://b.qr.ae/UaDLlp

2012-12-09 01:19:28 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

University of California unveils new "modern" logo after 144 years (http://bit.ly/VVSbYX) and a new system-wide mascot (http://bit.ly/VFLEoR)

2012-12-08 20:55:11 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Pseudoscience Saps the Power of TEDx Brand. http://bit.ly/SVGD6Z

2012-12-07 17:44:06 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 6 +1s)

"Visualizing Bayes' Theorem". An RA of mine showed me this after I gave him a primer. Very intuitive explanation. http://bit.ly/SDDEQW 

2012-12-06 21:12:40 (3 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Dopamine does NOT equal reward or pleasure. I can't repeat this often enough. New research out of UConn http://bit.ly/VKAT0K 

2012-12-06 19:23:59 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

"Well-connected rich white kids who drop out of Princeton can still do well". Excellent. This is like the inverse of Black swan theory wherein one perceives highly unlikely outlier events as probable: http://bit.ly/TMzeGi in   +Inside Higher Ed

2012-12-05 21:45:34 (0 comments, 6 reshares, 6 +1s)

Women as Academic Authors (1665-2010). Great #dataporn visualization by The Chronicle of Higher Education: http://bit.ly/WK1Kcg

2012-12-05 18:15:37 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Nice profile of neuroscientist and optogeneticist Ed Boyden http://bit.ly/XqXq6D (by +Ed Yong in Wired)

2012-12-03 16:38:10 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Looks like I'll be speaking at +Strata Conference! My talk, "Pervasive Data Munging Gremlins", is on the silly data issues that I run into in my data mashup work with Uber and others.

2012-12-01 02:08:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

OMG FREE NOBEL PRIZE http://on.fb.me/QwhMs6

2012-11-30 17:24:14 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

What will be the morals programmed into driverless cars? Interesting discussion in +The New Yorker http://nyr.kr/YaM9Zz

2012-11-28 21:37:30 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Despite nonsense and reactionary claims to the contrary, video games actually improve our attention and cognition. Here's my write-up on a great +TED talk on the real research behind this. http://bit.ly/YrDUHs 

2012-11-28 17:18:35 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 5 +1s)

Perhaps the most intelligent interviewer/interviewee dialogs I've read. Chomsky on where AI went wrong http://bit.ly/U4WPR7 in +The Atlantic

2012-11-27 17:35:45 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Science teaches us how to destroy entire star systems... warp drives as doomsday devices http://bit.ly/U9lRTa via +ExtremeTech

2012-11-26 21:50:03 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Is she possessed?" Amazing tale about a reporter's experience with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis on +NPR http://n.pr/UqQAr0

2012-11-21 17:07:16 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

None of Kurzweil's "new" ideas on the brain are new says Gary Marcus in  +The New Yorker. Jeff Hawkins was my first thought, too http://nyr.kr/SXBx8H

2012-11-19 18:03:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Has the love of embodied cognition research by Psych Science gone too far? Good perspective: http://bit.ly/Q481kO

2012-11-19 15:23:37 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

"What are the most important public communication skills that researchers should have?" My answer on +Quora: http://b.qr.ae/TLR7Dj

2012-11-19 04:31:41 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

When is it wise to blog or talk about your academic research work before you submit it for publication?

Part of my take:

"If you're worried about your legacy and want to be the one to pop into the scientific thread of history and yell "FIRST POST!" on an idea, then you should interrogate your reasons for blogging in the first place."

What do you all think?

http://b.qr.ae/10clrNu