Jim's Blog

Watching meteors flashing across the sky is a relaxing occupation on a clear evening. About ten times a year in the US, we can watch the ...

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

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

Nanotechnology has been a big buzzword for a few years now, and is viewed by some as an evil genie, which should be stuffed back in the b...

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

For a long time the TV has been a child minder for young children and there is some attempt to provide programs  with so...

The weather has turned dry and pond level has dropped by about a foot and all is still peaceful and the cloudiness of the water is reduc...

Bar Headed Goose but with feet on the ground. Image Diliff – Creative Commons, Wikipedia Extreme sports seem to have a growing fa...

Once again the pitch of peoples voices is the subject of a research project. This time the pitch has been progressively ...

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

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...

Whether we are old style hunter-gatherers in the forest or on the savannah, or are doing the equivalent in today’s modern, high tech worl...

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...