Jim's Blog

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

Instant gratification is definitely taking to long these days. We all want faster computers and that usually means faster memory access a...

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...