The Online Education Database published their list of 101 Fascinating Brain Blogs this week. There are psychology, psychiatry, technology, neuroscience, ethics and law, multidisciplinary, mental disorders and abnormal psychology, mental health and various brain blog categories. We land in the multidisciplinary category, along with fellow anthro blog Somatosphere.

If you see some that are missing, please feel free to leave a comment below. I didn’t see one on addiction, and recently I have been checking out Addiction Inbox.

One blog on the list that I didn’t know about is the Neuro-Journalism Mill, separating neuroscience stories in the press into wheat and chaff. No suprise that the chaff list is much longer…

I also discovered Half-Full, which covers “science for raising happy kids.” Television, family conflict, being connected – all things that happen in my house!

The hat-tip goes to Laura’s Psychology Blog, and it’s great to see that she too makes the list of 101 fascinating brain blogs.

The New York Times has put up their 8th Annual Year in Ideas as part of their Sunday magazine. You can browse A to Z (well, W) and find short pieces on some of the outstanding developments across a breadth of arenas and disciplines. Definitely one of my favorite magazine issues of the year.

Here is one I found on Women in Power Are Set Up To Fail, or the “glass cliff” based on experimental research by Michelle Ryan and Alex Haslam:

83 businesspeople — roughly half of them women — [had] described to them two companies, one that was steadily improving in profitability and an-other that was steadily declining. The subjects were told to pick a new financial director for the firm and were presented with three candidates: a man and a woman who were identical in experience and a lesser-qualified male. The subjects were slightly more likely to pick a man to lead the successful firm but were far more likely to pick the woman to lead the failing one. Two other experiments with similar designs yielded the same result: When presented with men and women to lead a company that’s going down the tubes, people pick the woman.

The same issue also features a fun interview with Jonah Lehrer, who runs The Frontal Cortex blog and has a forthcoming book on How We Decide. Gotta love this quote, “I wrote the book because I would spend 10 minutes in the cereal aisle choosing between Honey Nut Cheerios and Apple Cinnamon Cheerios.”