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POPSVideo Game Addiction No current behavior—not web-surfing, not online porn -viewing—is getting attention like compulsive video gaming, thanks in part to a trio of highly publicized deaths in China and South Korea from marathon online gaming sessions. The issue kicked up so much dust that members of the American Psychiatric Association felt compelled to get together and vote on the matter in June of 2007:
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POPSApply a skeptic’s careful eye "1. Unnatural environment for cognition 2. Scans are indirect measurements of brain activity. 3. Colors exaggerate the effects in the brain. 4. Brain images are statistical compilations. 5. Brain areas activate for various reasons."
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POPSHigh childhood IQ linked to antitraditional attitudes in adults A study of a large representative sample of the UK population shows that high childhood IQ is correlated with antitraditional (i.e., liberal, mostly) attitudes in adults (described as "antiracist, pro-working women, socially liberal," and democratic).This correlation is independent of gender, occupation and social class. Full PDF at the author's website (http://snipr.com/3ixli).
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POPSWhy young children are able to learn a language so rapidly IU cognitive science experts Linda Smith and Chen Yu are investigating whether the human brain accumulates large amounts of data and handles the data processing automatically. They are studying whether this helps to explain the ease by which 2- and 3-year-olds can learn one word at a time.
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POPSGlad to see someone else mentioning it... Too many people seem to believe science gets hard objective answers. It doesn't. And even if it did, the interpretation of the communicated results would necessarily be subjective, based on the previous experience of the recipient.
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POPSAlgorithm Architects ScienceOps develops, validates, and optimizes scientific software and informatics systems. Our highly skilled team of scientists and engineers have not only exceptional expertise in high-performance scientific computing but also expertise in a broad spectrum of scientific and engineering disciplines
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POPSThe Universe - A ClipXploration * 5 This is a result of a search for 'universe' on Google Scholar. The large-scale structure of the universe is the article abstract I chose. I clipped some keywords associated with this article by NASA.
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POPSIs climate change boosting hurricanes? What it tells us, says Mooney, is that the link between climate change and hurricanes is complicated. As he emphasizes again and again, “global warming did not cause Hurricane Katrina, or any other weather disaster.” On the other hand, statistical analysis of the past century’s hurricanes and computer modeling of a warmer climate, nudged along by greenhouse gases, does indicate that rising ocean temperatures could fuel hurricanes that are more intense.
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POPSMusic: Mirror Of The Mind Quote the next paragraph: "In addition, the team determined a complexity index for the compositions and brain function, a number to describe the intricacy of either the musical patterns or electrical signals. The complexity indices for both patterns were less than two. This suggests that both the brain and the composition are self-organized, but in the case of the composition, it probably reflects the self-organized mind of the composer. The interpretation of the complexity index remains a question for further research."
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POPSNeptune Climate Change: Solar link? And for Earth too? Too soon to tell. But we should know more in the next few years; from the article: In summary, if Neptune's atmosphere is indeed responding to some variation in solar activity in a manner similar to that of the Earth albeit with a temporal lag , then we predict a multi-year “flattening” (slope change) in the steady rise of Neptune's brightness for a few years, and a subsequent rise thereafter Very intriguing!
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POPSScientists Doubt Kennedy Bullet Analysis In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald alone shot the two bullets that struck and killed President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Tobin was the FBI lab's chief metallurgy expert for more than two decades. He analyzed metal evidence in major cases that included the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island.
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POPSNew Math For Analyzing Evolutionary Trees "What this tells me is that you don't know what kind of mathematics is going to be useful to biology," Billera says. "It wasn't clear before this that geometry and topology would be useful to biology. Who would think they had anything to do with each other?" Ernst Haeckel's classic hand-drawn diagram is just for fun—it's one of those wonderful diagrams that functions as both science and art.
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POPSThe validity of "hockey stick" theory ref: http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060626/full/4411032a.html http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=1113 http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/02/the-ipcc-fourth-assessment-summary-for-policy-makers/
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