Learning and memory – abilities associated with a brain or, at the very least,
neuronal activity – have been observed in protoplasmic slime, a unicellular organism with multiple
nuclei
Neuroscience is confirming what we all suspect: Multitasking is dumbing us down and
driving us crazy. One man’s odyssey through the nightmare of infinite connectivity
The music industry has finally signed a deal which will deliver an unlimited supply of free songs to fans through the site Qtrax.
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I’m sending a letter off to the American Psychological Association (APA) explaining my decision to resign membership from that organization, stimulated by APA’s failure to address the torture issue. The text of the letter follows below (with hypertext links added here to assist the reader with context)
TORONTO – A pathologist whose expert testimony against people accused of killing children led to at least seven wrongful convictions said Monday that he taught himself pediatric forensics and was ignorant of the criminal justice system
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