As a linguist by training, I have always liked learning new languages.  In fact, English is not my native language, Russian is.  I started truly learning English when I was in high school and added a few more languages later while studying linguistics.  After reading "The Bilingual Brain" in the ...

There are 18 new articles in PLoS ONE today. As always, you should rate the articles, post notes and comments and send trackbacks when you blog about the papers. You can now also easily place articles on various social services (CiteULike, Connotea, Stumbleupon, Facebook and Digg) with just one clic...

[image source] The Guardian UK posted this excellent books review by Steven Rose, in which he looks at the latest theories about the human brain. In search of the God neuron Steven Rose examines the latest theories about the human brain Steven Rose The Guardian, Saturday 27 December 2008 Article his...

A little late now, but this (via Matt) agrees with my own college experience. I drank a huge pitcher of water every night that I drank heavily and can’t remember even one time that I woke up with a hangover. I remember getting up to piss a lot, but after a night of drinking that happens anyway...

In the field of psychiatric research there is perhaps no condition that has been as difficult to understand and treat as schizophrenia. For centuries it was considered absolute madness and treated as such. There were people who endured horrific treatments such as electroshock therapy and even insuli...

Wired has a story about the trend toward more television dramas with science content. Some may disagree that a show like CSI is especially science-related; notwithstanding the shots where a camera is being jammed up into a corpse orifice. But it seems obvious that the current crop of TV dramas uses ...

 http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20081120.htm Generation X'd Out: An end to the human race as we've known it? Babies born to GENERATION X-RAY may be on the fast track to humanity's genetic DEAD END. The term "Generation X-ray" refers to youth addicted to communicating and recreatin...

Thanks to everyone for offering such great advice on everything from LORs to SOPs to CV to transcripts!!! I don't know what I'd be doing without this community And, yeah, could you please look at the now final draft of my SOP, much revised? =) Thank you in advance!!! Sorry for being a slightly obnox...

Very interesting Scientific American article by Christof Koch, which begins: What is consciousness? What is this ineffable, subjective stuff—this thing, substance, process, energy, soul, whatever—that you experience as the sounds and sights of life, as pain or as pleasure, as anger or as the nag...

This is from Crikey.com under the title "Anti-gay bigots on Roxon's mens' health taskforce":Marsh and Williams seem to have rather peculiar views on some male health issues. Worse than peculiar, actually. Downright evil is a term that springs to mind."Downright evil"? Who are these guys? What on ear...