This time a weekly round up on Neuroanthropology with an enormous amount of links, I thought that's were the #100 came from. I especialy liked: Power corrupts, but it corrupts only those who think they deserve it. Do you recognize this: REPORTS of politicians who have extramarital affairs while complaining about the death of family values, or who use public funding for private gain despite condemning government waste, have become so common in recent years that they hardly seem surprising anymore. Well that's were this posts is about, enjoy. Girls may learn math anxiety from female teachers. Did a recent post on why women .....read more »

I can still remember his book The Catcher in the Rye. The English was hard to read at that age nevertheless I was instantly deeply moved by the book without knowing why it did, I was still fairly young (high school). After this successful book he has hardly written anything else. In his whole life he wrote one novel, three volumes of stories. The success of the book is explained as; For decades that book was a universal rite of passage for adolescents, the manifesto of disenchanted youth. The hero Holden Caulfield was the original angry but also sensitive young man .....read more »

Improvisation is the main feature of Jazz that distinguishes it from other forms of music making. Improvisation is the spontaneous musical performance within a relevant musical context. It consists of novel melodic, harmonic and rhythmic musical elements. This unique feature of jazz offers the opportunity for neurobiological research or even creativity. What they did was do a functional MRI brain scan on 6 highly skilled professional jazz musicians. These jazz musicians had to play a simple musical tune and an improvisation on this tune with the restriction to the use of C major scale quarter notes within the same octave of .....read more »

Showing X-Ray images of large objects which you don't get to see that often. Here in this video X-Ray not used for health care, or checking for contraband but for creation of beautiful images. Nick Veasey shows outsized X-ray images that reveal the otherworldly inner workings of familiar objects -- from the geometry of a wildflower to the anatomy of a Boeing 747. Producing these photos is dangerous and painstaking, but the reward is a superpower: looking at what the human eye can't see. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ..read more »

Oxford mathematician Peter Donnelly reveals the common mistakes humans make in interpreting statistics -- and the devastating impact these errors can have on the outcome of clinical trials. British and very funny besides being very informative No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ..read more »

Merry X mas to all readers and thanks for all the comments. Take care Dr Shock No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ..read more »

From sanctuary to snake pit: the rise and fall of asylums, with this title the New Scientist has a collection of photos on the history of the asylums. Fascinating pictures one of which depicts an old ECT apparatus Most people associate the word "asylum" with squalor and brutality – an impression strengthened by portrayals in books and films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – but they were originally designed to be places of sanctuary. Christopher Payne visited and photographed 70 such institutions across the US for his book Asylum: Inside the closed world of state mental hospitals, which documents .....read more »

Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time. Figuring out how to rank real-time social content is "the great challenge of the age," Found his observations on teenagers impressive, does he still have teenagers himself? But I think he is right about teenagers using the Internet, using one app after the other, switching very fast. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. ..read more »

What do Amazon Kindle, Microsoft Word and Apple iPhone have in common. They're not always the best, the cheapest, nor the first ones, but they are produced by the biggest players in their field and hold the exclusive rights of their products. Today my Amazon Kindle International Edition arrived. Yes you can easily download and read books sold by Amazon after registration. The previous ereader Iliad by irex I used, supports more formats, it's memory can be extended by SD card and you can easily add files through usb connection with your PC or via usb stick, but unfortunately no .....read more »

From recent research based on secondary analysis of data obtained from telephone interviews from a sample of 1003 email users the answer is not conclusive. e-mail supports work performance, but at the same time contributes to negative effects that in the long run may affect motivation and satisfaction In this research in which they also looked at the effect of e-mail on work performance, work related e-mails received and sent are positively related to work performance, indicating that e-mail communication in organizations carries important information that is critical for the completion of jobs. Personal e-mails neither contributes nor hampers work performance. Nevertheless, .....read more »