Archive for July 2016
Tracking Dinosaur Intelligence: What Fossil Footprints Reveal about the Dinosaur’s Brain
Displaying the sleuthing skills of Sherlock Holmes, Jerry Harris carefully tracks the footprints to a point where they disintegrate into a muddle of scratches. He vividly deduces what transpired here. “Came up out of Lake Dixie,” Harris says, pointing to prints leading up the slope. “Sat down on the side of…
Read MoreEctoplasm–Ghostbusters to spooky twitching nerves
“He slimed me!” Venkman spits out in disgust, writhing in sticky ectoplasm in a memorable scene from the 1984 movie Ghostbusters. Ectoplasm, the mysterious stuff of the supernatural world, also makes nerve axons twitch every time they fire, but almost nobody talks about it.
Read MoreThe Neuroscience of Violence, Again
The first dead person I ever saw was a policeman. . .
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