Month: July 2009

The Breadth of the Net

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Five links that range across the things that interest us here at Neuroanthropology.net. Enjoy!

Global Voices Online
“The world is talking. Are you listening?”: Bringing together and highlighting stories that most global media ignore

Top 10 Psychology Blogs for Curious Minds
From BPS Digest to We’re Only Human, it’s a quality list

The You Tube Reporters’ Center
Interviews and advice from top-notch journalists on how we can all do better reporting

Top 20 TED Talks for Busy School Administrators
Definitely not for professors – they might watch too much. Especially if they are trying to get tenure.

Neuroimages
Neurophilosophy’s Mo Costandi has set up an image-only site, Neuroimages. Some beautiful stuff.

Four Stone Hearth #70

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A great issue of Four Stone Hearth, the anthropology carnival, is over at Afarensis: Anthropology, Evolution and Science.

From sex on the moon and virtual communities to orangs as our closest relatives?, this edition is extensive, with highlights from all four fields.

Also note that Afarnesis is now at a new site – moving from the old scienceblogs to the new wordpress. Besides getting his own real-life monster name, you can find out why your dog looks guilty and the relationships between lungfish, trout and humans.

From this edition I’d like to highlight two pieces on evolution of intellience, Blair Bolles’ meditation on tool use, language evolution, and the context of adaptation, and Razib’s piece on the evolution of the brain and the role of social competition in the increasing cranial size in our lineage. The two pieces work quite well together.

There is plenty more great stuff over at Four Stone Hearth #70, so run or walk (like a good afarensis) there now.

Link to Four Stone Hearth #70

Wednesday Round Up #70

So the favs first, then a great round-up of recent evolution stuff. Then onto anthropology, neuroscience and health.

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David Dobbs, What If You Could Predict PTSD in Combat Troops? Oh, Who Cares…
You actually can. And it has to do with general health – the bottom 15% account for 58% of PTSD cases. But will anything be done about it?

Le Monde, Le Corps Incarcéré
Amazing interactive feature of the French paper, featuring reporting and social scientists on the whole process of incarceration

Walter Glannon, Free Will and Moral Responsibility in the Age of Neuroscience
Pdf on neuroethics that appeared in 2006 in the journal Medical Ethics

Ellen Dissanayake, If Music is the Food of Love, What about Survival and Reproductive Success?
Music as a behavioral and emotional capacity and its link to ritualization. Pdf of a compelling 2008 article.

Michael Smith, Green vs. Gold Open Access
What’s the best way to go? Creating open journals or open repositories?

Evolution – or Men Fighting Back against Sharon Begley vs. Other Men Just Getting on with Things

Sharon Begley, Why Do We Rape, Kill and Sleep Around?
“The fault, dear Darwin, lies not in our ancestors, but in ourselves” – Begley bashes evolutionary psychology

David Sloan Wilson, Evolutionary Psychology and the Public Media: Rekindling the Romance
Huffing over at the Huffington Post – what evolutionary approaches to mind and behavior might do better to keep the fickle public’s eye

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