One of our favorite classic movies chez Freberg is Bell, Book, and Candle, a 1958 film starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, who allegedly was the actress after whom the Disney animators fashioned Tinkerbell. In the movie, Novak plays a witch who uses her magic to make Stewart fall in Read more…
Even though my love in psychology is all about the neurosciences, I confess to being a sucker for personality tests. I like taking them. So of course when I heard that Phil Zimbardo has a new measure, the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI), I HAD to drop what I was Read more…
As Easter approaches, I am always amazed to find that Peeps are still on the shelves of my local market. Does anybody actually eat these? Daughter Karen had an unopened package of them for years before we made her throw them out. So in what is quickly becoming an annual Read more…
Brian Wansink’s research into why people overeat isn’t just good science, it’s funny. So Mr. F and I weren’t surprised to find ourselves laughing a great deal during his lecture tonight at Cal Poly. Running into several of my students after the lecture, I found that we weren’t the only Read more…
Whatever you’re doing now, stop. Click here. Spend the remainder of your evening exploring the remarkable features found on Cold Spring Harbor’s Genes to Cognition Online: The 3-D interactive, rotating brain is a must-see for neuroscience faculty. I plan to use this in class to demonstrate neuroanatomy. Animations include reading Read more…