The latest Four Stone Hearth (Number 78) is up at Paddy K (‘the Swedish Experience’ sounds to me like a euphemism for an obscure sexual act stemming from a fascination with high-tax-paying northern Europeans). For those of you unfamiliar with the experience, Four Stone Hearth is the itinerant web carnival of blogging about anthropology, named for the four subfields of our mother discipline (archaeo-, cultural/social, linguistic, and bio-/physical).

There’s lots of anthropology goodness including a personal favourite link to a news story on the ‘unsuitable materials’ rooms at the British Museum (‘racy and disturbing pictures, regarded as unfit for public attention’ including erotic playing cards from the jazz age, a pile of penis drawings, an 11,000-year-old statue of a couple in flagrante, and symbols of ‘the early worship of mankind’ — yup, more penises). Hot Cup of Joe discusses Creationists’ response to the release of papers on Ardipthecus remains (that is, more behavioural data on Agnopithicus creationus, as Joe puts it).

According to Paddy K, Martin Rundqvist is still looking for a host of the Four Stone blog carnival for 7 November, so if you’re into it, consider hosting it at your site. Contact Martin!

Image from Aardvarchaeology.

And it’s not just because of the brain training!

Sharp Brains is hosting Grand Rounds, the medical blogging carnival, and Encephalon, the mind/brain carnival, concurrently. So we’ve got Grand Rounds: Brain and Cognition Edition.

Cognitive sleep therapy, religion as a “natural” phenomenon, fMRIs and the genetic bases of anger, the history of conceptualizing cognition and emotion from a neural view, and much more. This is really an outstanding joint edition!

I particularly want to highlight Sharp Brain’s 15 Frequently Answered Questions on Neuroplasticity and Brain Fitness, which serves as an excellent overview of what Sharp Brain does, complete with links to read more on each question.

So go visit the Grand Encephalon @ Sharp Brains!

Technorati is the leading trackers of the blogosphere, and just recently put into place a redesign that permits a more real-time shot of what is happening on the Internet right now – what’s hot, what’s falling, and what the big players are doing.

In the re-design, one of the useful features they’ve included is to categorize blogging. And that includes a Science category, where you can see the top blogs writing about anything science related.

Right now Neuroanthropology is coming it at #29 in the Science category, so that’s great. I think they’ll continue to flesh out the Science category, however. For example, Mind Hacks is not there yet, and that’s a must include.

Wired Science is the top science blog. There’s a cool post there, Wires Inserted into Human Brain Reveal Speech Surprise. But the one I really liked is Scientists Scan the Brains of Mice Playing Quake. Here’s the YouTube video showing mice negotiating a virtual reality maze:

And here’s the link so you can go explore the Technorati Science blogs category.

A Place Odyssey is hosting the 77th edition of Four Stone Hearth, rounding up the best anthropology blogging of the past fortnight.

You can check out Ardi’s pelvis, use GPS to navigate Europe, find archaeologists for global justice, debate capitalism, and more.

Link to Four Stone Hearth #77.