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Category: psychology

  • Read This or Else

    So I finished my last and only exam today. The following occured to me: In grad school, it’s not really writing exams that matters, but the threat of writing exams. See, marks don’t really matter. In a grad course, everyone is going to get a good mark no matter how well (or poorly) they do…

  • Nuking Dreams

    This is from a recent issue of Science: In 2004, a research team led by Pierre Maquet of the University of Liège, Belgium, used positron emission tomography (PET) to monitor brain activity in men playing a virtual-reality game in which they learned to navigate through a virtual town (actually a scene from the shoot-’em-up video…

  • ROFLCOPTER

    So I was reading this article on the top 10 mysteries of the mind, and one of them was about the purpose of laughter. Nobody really knows what it is. And when you think about it, laughter is pretty strange. Someone says something “funny”, and in response, your lips curl up and you start grunting.…