Posts Tagged ‘consciousness science’
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Stuart Firestein, PhD: Pleasures of Scientific Mystery and the Cultivation of Doubt
Dr. Stuart Firestein is the Chair of Columbia University’s Department of Biological Sciences where his highly popular course on ignorance invites working scientists to come talk to students each week about what they don’...
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Clear, Lucid, Intuitive Teaching: BetterExplained
BetterExplained.com is in the tradition of “questions you always wanted to ask your math professor but were too scared to ask.” Clarifications and insights abound in a wide range of topics: Bayes Theorem, combinations and p...
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PhET Sims + Science Literacy
PhET’s mission is to increase science literacy, especially for nonscientists.
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Educating Consciousness
he scientific study of consciousness is now a legitimate endeavor at some universities and research centers around the world. Among those in the know, excitement is intense. We are privileged to study an essential aspect of the...
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The Mind’s Laughter: fMRI from Japan.
Whether you know it or not, your brain acts out the words you hear. For example, a study led by Naoyuki Osaka of Kyoto University (Japan) shows that the motor cortex revs up in response to words like "belly laugh.”
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Why Consciousness Science?
The study of consciousness is emerging from a century of scientific taboo. We suggest it is the key to respect for sentient beings and our shared humanity.
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Brain Info
BrainInfo helps one identify structures in the brain. One can either search by a structure name or locate the structure in a brain atlas and get information such as its location in the classical brain hierarchy, images of the s...
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Cool Runnings: Notable websites for consciousness science
Consciousness science is highly interdisciplinary, and Cool Runnings will reflect this, featuring sites from all over the pedagogical map.
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Measure Sound of Pins Dropping
"...making a bridge between the laboratory science and real life is the only way to get kids into having a passion about it."