I read this article my senior year of college as I carried out my first psychology experiments (on lateralized color processing effects), and it may have influenced my career choices…anyhow, a fascinating piece.
I made baked beans from scratch for a lab picnic (on a pontoon boat at Lake Monroe…which was awesome). Somebody else made these mouthwatering Brazilian cheese rolls, which I hope to make soon. Transitioning from om to yum.
Resveratrol looks promising. Same effects as caloric restriction, but more studies needed in mammals. Biotivia has the best supplements. We will see.
Finally, the link.
Here are the tests. Some of my results:
I correctly identified 16 out of 20 people as either genuinely smiling or faking a smile.
80% of the time I prefer extroverted female faces over introverted female faces (confirming their hypothesis that extroverts prefer extroverted mates).
Eyes
This task tested your ability to judge people’s emotions. 39%
Average score for […]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18684016/
Too bad humans don’t have any…
Really enjoying The Cryptonomicon at the moment.
Interesting article.
I’m going to Indiana University in Bloomington next year to start a PhD program in Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science. I will be working with Rich Shiffrin. I’m excited!
In other news, according to the Edinburgh handedness inventory, my laterality quotient is: -77.8, placing me subject in the 5th left decile.
Is a sci-fi novel by Greg Egan that I’m currently reading, and enjoying. It raises a lot of interesting questions about identity, because some of the characters are digital, functional copies of their former human selves. Are these imitations people? Sure! We see our own day-to-day identity as continuous because we imitate ourselves. Substrate is […]
A wave rolls in
Setting forth shells–
gleaming–on the wet sand.
But as the wave recedes
shells tumble away,
reclaimed by the
depths.