June 2012
Selection Progress: Understanding the Heart, Soul... →
medicalstate:
In addition to the hard-science and math questions that have for decades defined this rite of passage into the medical profession, nearly half of the new MCAT will focus on squishier topics in two new sections: one covering social and behavioral sciences and another on critical analysis and reading that will require students to analyze passages covering areas like ethics and...
Complex thinking goes beyond primates: Dolphins... →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
Animal intelligence “is not a linear thing,” said Duke University researcher Brian Hare, who studies bonobos, which are one of man’s closest relatives, and dogs, which are not.
“Think of it like a toolbox,” he said. “Some species have an amazing hammer. Some species have an amazing screwdriver.”
“Dolphins are so distantly related to humans that it’s been 95 million...
Neuroscience: The mind reader →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
Adrian Owen has found a way to use brain scans to communicate with people previously written off as unreachable. Now, he is fighting to take his methods to the clinic.
Adrian Owen still gets animated when he talks about patient 23. The patient was only 24 years old when his life was devastated by a car accident. Alive but unresponsive, he had been languishing in what...
The Humans With Super Human Vision →
fuckyeahneuroscience:
An unknown number of women may perceive
millions of colors invisible to the rest of us. One British scientist is trying to track them down and understand their extraordinary power of sight.
An average human, utterly unremarkable in every way, can
perceive a million different colors. Vermilion, puce, cerulean, periwinkle, chartreuse—we have thousands of words for them, but...
“It does seem to make a case for comprehensive sex education, doesn’t it?”
– Sandra Fluke on Rush Limbaugh’s now infamously ill-informed sexist commentary about her use of birth control. She was interviewed in the New York Times Magazine about her rise to “feminist superstardom.” (via thepoliticalnotebook)
The 12 most annoying college students. →
We’ve all run into them before. Read this list if you want to remind yourself of how annoyed you were by that jackass in your underwater basket-weaving class. (Or whatever it was.)
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