iThinkEducation.net! » Brain & Behavior http://ithinkeducation.net Top Stories in Ed Tech from Around the Web Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:54:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 w000t! CPDD joins the blogosphere!!!!!1111!!!! [DrugMonkey] http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33903 http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33903#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:54:08 +0000 Feeds http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33903 CPDDlogo.jpg

I am delighted to report that the College on Problems of Drug Dependence has joined the science blogosphere. The CPDD Community Website is a new effort of the Media Relations Committee and intends to be:

a moderated Blog open to comment by CPDD members and invited contributors.

The email notification I received indicates that the comments and the blog will be open to the public so no worries, they are just planning to moderate* the content.

The initial offerings include:

A comment from the new editor of the College’s journal, Drug and Alcohol Dependence on changes to the journal.

A link-heavy update on the proposed NIDA-NIAAA merger.

A response to the McCain-Coburn attack on drug abuse research included in their mid-summer sneer at ARRA projects.

A general post on the politics of substance abuse research.

And what’s this? Little old us in the blogroll? Awwwww.

Well done, CPDD, well done.

[my CPDD related posts are here]
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*I’ll work on ‘em DearReader, don’t worry.

CPDD.org
CPDD Facebook
Drug and Alcohol Dependence

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Source: Science Blogs: Brain & Behavior

]]> http://ithinkeducation.net/?feed=rss2&p=33903 0 w000t! CPDD joins the blogosphere!!!!!1111!!!! [DrugMonkey] http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33902 http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33902#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:54:08 +0000 Feeds http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33902 CPDDlogo.jpg

I am delighted to report that the College on Problems of Drug Dependence has joined the science blogosphere. The CPDD Community Website is a new effort of the Media Relations Committee and intends to be:

a moderated Blog open to comment by CPDD members and invited contributors.

The email notification I received indicates that the comments and the blog will be open to the public so no worries, they are just planning to moderate* the content.

The initial offerings include:

A comment from the new editor of the College’s journal, Drug and Alcohol Dependence on changes to the journal.

A link-heavy update on the proposed NIDA-NIAAA merger.

A response to the McCain-Coburn attack on drug abuse research included in their mid-summer sneer at ARRA projects.

A general post on the politics of substance abuse research.

And what’s this? Little old us in the blogroll? Awwwww.

Well done, CPDD, well done.

[my CPDD related posts are here]
__
*I’ll work on ‘em DearReader, don’t worry.

CPDD.org
CPDD Facebook
Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Read the comments on this post…


Source: Science Blogs: Brain & Behavior

]]> http://ithinkeducation.net/?feed=rss2&p=33902 0 w000t! CPDD joins the blogosphere!!!!!1111!!!! [DrugMonkey] http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33901 http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33901#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:54:08 +0000 Feeds http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33901 CPDDlogo.jpg

I am delighted to report that the College on Problems of Drug Dependence has joined the science blogosphere. The CPDD Community Website is a new effort of the Media Relations Committee and intends to be:

a moderated Blog open to comment by CPDD members and invited contributors.

The email notification I received indicates that the comments and the blog will be open to the public so no worries, they are just planning to moderate* the content.

The initial offerings include:

A comment from the new editor of the College’s journal, Drug and Alcohol Dependence on changes to the journal.

A link-heavy update on the proposed NIDA-NIAAA merger.

A response to the McCain-Coburn attack on drug abuse research included in their mid-summer sneer at ARRA projects.

A general post on the politics of substance abuse research.

And what’s this? Little old us in the blogroll? Awwwww.

Well done, CPDD, well done.

[my CPDD related posts are here]
__
*I’ll work on ‘em DearReader, don’t worry.

CPDD.org
CPDD Facebook
Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Read the comments on this post…


Source: Science Blogs: Brain & Behavior

]]> http://ithinkeducation.net/?feed=rss2&p=33901 0 Dr. Isis’s Shoe of the Week [On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess] http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33808 http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33808#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:51:23 +0000 Feeds http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33808 The fine folks who are handling the lab remodel told me that my office would be done today. I walked up to find a desk and painted walls. It did not occur to them, however, that I might need a chair. I have no chair.

So, I bought these…

catwalk.jpg
Figure 1: The Catwalk Boot. $39.95 at ShoeDazzle.

I won’t lie though. My attention was more focused on her chair.

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]]> http://ithinkeducation.net/?feed=rss2&p=33808 0 Dr. Isis’s Shoe of the Week [On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess] http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33809 http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33809#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:51:23 +0000 Feeds http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33809 The fine folks who are handling the lab remodel told me that my office would be done today. I walked up to find a desk and painted walls. It did not occur to them, however, that I might need a chair. I have no chair.

So, I bought these…

catwalk.jpg
Figure 1: The Catwalk Boot. $39.95 at ShoeDazzle.

I won’t lie though. My attention was more focused on her chair.

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Source: Science Blogs: Brain & Behavior

]]> http://ithinkeducation.net/?feed=rss2&p=33809 0 Dr. Isis’s Shoe of the Week [On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess] http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33810 http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33810#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:51:23 +0000 Feeds http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33810 The fine folks who are handling the lab remodel told me that my office would be done today. I walked up to find a desk and painted walls. It did not occur to them, however, that I might need a chair. I have no chair.

So, I bought these…

catwalk.jpg
Figure 1: The Catwalk Boot. $39.95 at ShoeDazzle.

I won’t lie though. My attention was more focused on her chair.

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Source: Science Blogs: Brain & Behavior

]]> http://ithinkeducation.net/?feed=rss2&p=33810 0 Perception and Reality (and a few TEDx teaching tips) [The Thoughtful Animal] http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33805 http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33805#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:51:21 +0000 Feeds http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33805 This talk, from last spring’s TEDxUSC (for those not in the know, USC held the first ever TEDx event, in 2009), is made of awesome, and worth watching in its entirety. It will be especially interesting for those who have read The Invisible Gorilla.

As I’m always looking for good teaching tips, here are a few good things that the presenter, Al Seckel, did.

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Source: Science Blogs: Brain & Behavior

]]> http://ithinkeducation.net/?feed=rss2&p=33805 0 Perception and Reality (and a few TEDx teaching tips) [The Thoughtful Animal] http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33806 http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33806#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:51:21 +0000 Feeds http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33806 This talk, from last spring’s TEDxUSC (for those not in the know, USC held the first ever TEDx event, in 2009), is made of awesome, and worth watching in its entirety. It will be especially interesting for those who have read The Invisible Gorilla.

As I’m always looking for good teaching tips, here are a few good things that the presenter, Al Seckel, did.

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Source: Science Blogs: Brain & Behavior

]]> http://ithinkeducation.net/?feed=rss2&p=33806 0 Perception and Reality (and a few TEDx teaching tips) [The Thoughtful Animal] http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33807 http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33807#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:51:21 +0000 Feeds http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33807 This talk, from last spring’s TEDxUSC (for those not in the know, USC held the first ever TEDx event, in 2009), is made of awesome, and worth watching in its entirety. It will be especially interesting for those who have read The Invisible Gorilla.

As I’m always looking for good teaching tips, here are a few good things that the presenter, Al Seckel, did.

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Source: Science Blogs: Brain & Behavior

]]> http://ithinkeducation.net/?feed=rss2&p=33807 0 Editor’s Selections: Katrina, Music, Crickets, and Artificial Movement [The Thoughtful Animal] http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33804 http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33804#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:51:19 +0000 Feeds http://ithinkeducation.net/?p=33804 Here are my Research Blogging Editor’s Selections for this week:

  • “Now, five years later, there’s new evidence of the significant, negative impact of Hurricane Katrina on children’s mental health.” Many Children Still Haven’t Recovered from Katrina.
  • “Congenital amusia is one of several different types of music perception impairments. A person with the disorder is born with a variety of symptoms, including an inability to recognize a familiar song without hearing the lyrics, an inability to discern the difference between two melodies, and difficulty perceiving when he or she is singing or hearing music performed out of tune.” Sarah Stanley of the Curious! blog writes about congenital amusia.
  • “Working on an animal in a lab is a little like assuming a cow is a perfect sphere.” In a post called Neurons in the Wild, Doctor Zen of NeuroDojo writes about field studies of crickets.
  • Over at Greta Munger’s “Cognition and the Arts” course blog, check out What makes movement seem artificial?

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