In a previous post, I asked a rhetorical question about the choice of “Kindle” as a name for the new Amazon electronic reader. I don’t pretend to know anything about marketing, but fortunately, others do. I got a nice note from Collin Gebhard, whose job it is to evaluate product Read more…
I have already expressed my frustration with the impact of the used book business on those of use who don’t want to spend five years of our lives writing books “for free” elsewhere in this blog. Because the used book people do not pay the publisher or author when they Read more…
One of my more interesting jobs was working as a research assistant in the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA while in grad school. Our lab, under the direction of Murray Jarvik and Ron Siegel, looked at the impact of psychoactive substances on learning and memory, which primarily meant giving our poor rhesus monkeys Read more…
Many thanks to the “Blog of the Day Award” folks for recognizing my blog. We may convert the world’s entire population into neuroscientists yet….Bwa ha ha!
Conventional lie detection, using such measures as heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, Galvanic skin response, is so unreliable that resulting data are not typically admissible to courts in the United States. A panel of experts evaluating conventional lie detector results declared a third of the innocent to be guilty, while Read more…