Jim's Blog

Social scientists and psychologists love to have us playing economic games. They usually give us l...

For sometime now, I’ve been complaining that the technology that I need isn't here. I want to be able to speak into my phone, and have ...

Embryonic learning can be important (apparently) for species that are on their own once they hatch from the egg. Hatchlin...

A very exciting result came in from the Osaka Marathon this morning.   After only 2.27 days of fierce walking, the winning margin was a m...

Another interesting paper from the AAAs meeting was given by Dr. Smith, SUNY at Buffalo. In this case the subjects were monkeys, both Old W...

When we first look at someone, we know immediately if they appear to be attractive to us. The question why do we come to that rapid concl...

Kids fight, sometimes, and some high school kids fight more than others. Some new research by Solnick and Hemenway has s...

As we get closer to having robots working with us in our everyday existence, that is, away from a production line automa...

In our daily meanderings we interact with people on a wide range of levels. Some of those interactions may be important to our well being...

When left to our own devices, with no job demanding our attention or irate supervisors working themselves into a lather at our timekeepin...

Social scientists and psychologists love to have us playing economic games. They usually give us l...

Embryonic learning can be important (apparently) for species that are on their own once they hatch from the egg. Hatchlin...

Placebos and pain control do not have a clear mechanism. Neuroimaging has shown that the belief in that the magic pill reduces ...

Too many distractions for lame ducks?

3D printed bio-bots are crawling about the Heartland. Not very rapidly it is true, but at ¼mm each second, just fast enou...

The videogame industry is huge with many of the consumers playing violent shooter games while they save the world or finish some quest. T...

Too many teeth?

An anti-phase game strategy is often required to win in two-person sports. When we first learn any two-person sport we are usua...