Jim's Blog

We are told from our mother’s knee, and the health websites that we are increasingly taking as our source of wisdom, that we should start t...

Our social psychologist friends love to play games to see how we behave. One of the games of choice used to study social...

Problem solving is the fun thing for psychologists to put their subjects through, whether human or animal. Fun for the sub...

While working hard using my favorite software, I clicked a command to open a plug-in and a window popped up to let me know in a helpful f...

          It will soon be back to the college football games in the US and the fans will be working hard to maximize the...

The engineering area termed biomimetics has been expanding over the past 15 years. It is usually on a small scale and, s...

The latest reported study to contemplate our digit ratios seems to have taken place while enjoying the sun soaked Cornis...

A recent study indicates that about 80% of us are optimists and that our optimism interferes with our acceptance of real...

Tweeting, chattering or squawking is a choice open to some birds. A relatively few can learn to vocalize. Parrots, mina b...

Is over, at least for the people who reside in the region where the Thirteen-Year Periodical Cicadas live. (The seventeen-year ones will ...

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...