On this weekly excellent round up I especially liked:
Placebo Has Strength in Numbers on Mind Hacks.
The term ‘placebo effect’ is used to refer to two things in the medical literature. The first is a statistical concept and it refers to the improvement in patients given an inactive treatment in a drug trial in comparison to those given the actual drug. The second is a psychological concept and it refers to improvement due to expectancy and belief.
The brain, caught between science and ideology on Research EU about differences between women and men’s brain.
experiments clearly show that self-esteem and the internalisation of gender stereotypes play a decisive role in the scores obtained in this type of test.
Clive Thompson on the New Literacy on Wired Magazine
“I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen since Greek civilization,” she says. For Lunsford, technology isn’t killing our ability to write. It’s reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.
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Dr. Shock,
I like your style of featuring the ones you like from the grand rounds. It is a helpful best of and lets me know you read it and not just thought of it as a link farm. I may implement this for myself as well.
It is amazing how many well written posts are collected in this weekly round up and most of them very interesting to me so the choice is not always easy. Take care Dr shock