It is likely that many diverse factors have contributed to the current obesity epidemic. Fast food, less activity, trans fats, viruses, big portions, and so on have all been blamed for our increasing waistlines. The more we understand the phenomenon, the better equipped we are to deal with it. Adina Lemeshow and Read more…
I must confess to being a sucker for any study involving rhesus monkeys. I developed a fondness for the little guys during my grad school days at UCLA, even though they were prone to homocidal impulses when they got loose. They’re just sooooo smart. Now we learn that they may Read more…
Many of you enjoyed taking the EQSQ Tests (empathy versus systemizing) mentioned in a previous post. Tim Worstall, who runs the EQSQ site, picked up on my confusion about interpreting my 51 EQ score and my 97 SQ score and offered a very helpful clarification. If I understand Tim correctly, the 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…
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…