Neuroscience
This is my student Erin's idea, but it's so funny I wanted to share it more broadly:
Great dinosaur cartoon about vandalism and Wikipedia. The dinosaurs want to take over the chicken entry in Wikipedia and vandalize it -- that way, all other Wikipedia entries will be safe, and hey, everyone already knows about chickens, so it's ok to vandalize that entry.
hah!
Erin also points us to the actual Wikipedia entry for chickens, which suggests that perhaps dinosaurs *have* visited the Wikipedia chicken entry after all.
Definitely a great teaching moment.
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I don't usually like cute cat photos, but there is an interesting Internet meme going around about krazy kaptions of kat photos. I first found it on - Language Log, Kitty Pidgin and asymmetrical tail-wags, which referred me to - Anil Dash's...
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Neuroscience
Chickens, Dinosaurs, and Wikipedia
This is my student Erin's idea, but it's so funny I wanted to share it more broadly:
Great dinosaur cartoon about vandalism and Wikipedia. The dinosaurs want to take over the chicken entry in Wikipedia and vandalize it -- that way, all other Wikipedia entries will be safe, and hey, everyone already knows about chickens, so it's ok to vandalize that entry.
hah!
Erin also points us to the actual Wikipedia entry for chickens, which suggests that perhaps dinosaurs *have* visited the Wikipedia chicken entry after all.
Definitely a great teaching moment.
- Link Feast
In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: 1. The doyenne of British psychology, Professor Uta Frith DBE, has written an article for the Huffington Post calling for more recognition of female scientists. She says that...
- 56 (fifty-six) Is The Natural Number Following 55 And Preceding 57.
Combining Cognits brings us this informative Wikipedia entry on the number fifty-six (and hosts the 56th edition of Encephalon as well). Read all about Antisocial Behaviour, Brains, and everything else... Messier 56, a globular cluster discovered by...
- Catspeak
I don't usually like cute cat photos, but there is an interesting Internet meme going around about krazy kaptions of kat photos. I first found it on - Language Log, Kitty Pidgin and asymmetrical tail-wags, which referred me to - Anil Dash's...
- A Tale Of Two Disciplines?
Did you read the Nature article in December comparing Wikipedia to the Encyclopaedia Britannica? They compare several scientific entries from Wikipedia & Britannica & conclude that "Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science...
- Print Is Mighty, Too
Have you seen the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas yet? Very impressive! The new edition is 6 volumes (compared with 4) and has some very topical and cognitive entries. There are several having to do with consciousness, the philosophers among you...