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Scientific American has been given a new “appealingly bright, colorful design and open layout,” and next month’s issue, in which the new look is introduced, is available for download as a PDF. The file can be downloaded for free until June 30th, so get it while you can.
The cover story, by memory researcher Joe Tsien […]

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The popular delicacy foie gras (which is French for “fat liver”) is produced in a way that animal rights activists insist is barbaric. Ducks and geese are force-fed corn mash twice a day, through a tube that is inserted into the oesophagus. The birds are slaughtered 2-3 weeks later, and their engorged livers are then […]

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Synaesthesia is a condition in which there is increased connectivity between the areas of the brain that process information received from each sense organ. This leads to a mingling of the senses: for example, sounds may elicit perceptions of colour in a synaesthete who has increased connectivity between the brain’s visual and auditory pathways.
The […]

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Head over to PsyBlog for the 25th edition of Encephalon, which includes posts about how numbers are encoded in the monkey brain, the signalling of calorific restriction and the biological basis of imagination.
The next edition of Encephalon marks the carnival’s first anniversary, so I’ll be hosting it right here, where it all began one year ago. If you’d like […]

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