The New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities have created a new, and free, program entitled Partners in Policymaking (PIP) which is an innovative leadership training program for adults with disabilities and for parents of young children with disabilities. The program provides information and...

That slipped out along with some lofty comments about how people need to read more and how he's forced to do his serious reading in the summers between Court terms. That makes some people, like Tony Mauro, the author of the linked article, wonder about rumors that he may be leaving the Court: If he ...

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have linked a potential indicator of Alzheimer’s disease to brain damage in humans with no signs of mental impairment. Although their cognitive and neurological assessments were normal, study participants with lower levels of a s...

In many rural areas of India, schoolchildren use chalk to write on handheld, erasable black slate tablets roughly the size of a piece of paper, because their teachers lack the funding or electrical infrastructure for anything more sophisticated. A group of humanitarians and educators are trying to c...

What are your favorite neuroscience blogs? I want to start reading some good neuroscience blogs. There are a lot out there, and I'm interested in finding out which ones various MeFites might give their stamp of approval. My particular interest is in social neuroscience, but please don't limit your r...

Grid City is a small planned city laid out on a completely regular six-by-five grid with streets going north-south and east-west. There is one building per city block. [More]...

John Medina's excellent book Brain Rules has received quite a bit of attention already (see my original post based on the videos and online information I explored first on John's website, as well as Donald Clark's recent review), but I've only just got round to reading it properly and I want to take...

In what is believed to be the first law of its kind, the State of Washington has passed legislation that will prohibit student athletes who have exhibited symptoms of a concussion from returning to play without the approval of a licensed health care provider....

TALLAHASSEE, AP–Bobby Bowden appealed to the NCAA to include wins from his past before. He may have to do it again. Florida State will appeal the NCAA ruling in an academic fraud case including the vacating of 14 wins, but should the University lose the appeal Bowden will likely try a new tack...

Here is a good article that sums up my perspective on Christianity, especially the bolded paragraph. There is no question n my mind that evolution has provided a sort of boobytrap in that it causes us to impute intentionality to all sorts of things that don’t necessarily have it, but that̵...