Knowing Your Way Around

Philosophy and neuroscience have a productive relationship. Philosopher Alva Noë talks about the neuroscience of consciousness over at Big Think .

From the minds of babes

Seated in a cheerfully cramped monitoring room at the Harvard University Laboratory for Developmental Studies, Dr. Elizabeth S. Spelke, a professor of psychology and a pre-eminent researcher of the basic ingredient list from which all human knowledge is constructed, looked on expectantly as her students prepared a boisterous eight-month-old girl with dark curly hair for the onerous task of ...

The Scienceblogging Weekly (May 11, 2012)

In the flood of information, filters are invaluable – people you trust to pick the best so you can focus on that, only that, and ignore the less important stuff. Editors (including Jason here at the network) at ScienceSeeker.org and editors (including Krystal here at the network) at ResearchBlogging.org filter the best science blog posts each week. [More]

Clinical Trial Shows Sentra PM® Improves Quality of Sleep

Physician Therapeutics, Inc., a division of Targeted Medical Pharma, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company that manufactures and distributes specialty pharmaceuticals to physicians, pharmacies and skilled nursing facilities, published results from a clinical trial of the proprietary medical food Sentra PM.

The Art of Eavesdropping: Nature s Silent Sniffers, Watchers and Listeners

Typically we think of eavesdropping as a human endeavor. Individually we all do it to a certain degree. Call it social listening, if you will. Sometimes we can t help but overhear a conversation. Other times we might deliberately try to listen in on what someone else is saying. I remember as a kid putting a cup up against the door to try and hear what was going on behind closed doors ...