Jim's Blog

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 ...

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...

One of the many reasons for our ‘big brain’ is our ability to talk to each other and this goes along with our other huma...

Plants have quite a struggle to get the best spots with plenty of light and water to put down roots and get established in...

Photo Bjarte Sorensen, Creative Commons Walking your moai is not a task to be undertaken lightly. Weighing in at a 10...

In the aftermath of the St. Patrick’s Day celebratory antics, most heavily indulged in within the US, such as Parades, the wearing of gre...

The current issue of Discovery News introduces us to a pre-print of a paper by Kotrschal et al of U Vienna describing the social interac...

Is we are what we read as good a truism as we are what we eat the question of the moment. We have a tendency to read or ...

As the year moves into the middle of spring in the northern hemisphere the coughing and sneezing hasn’t abated. We’re not out of the wood...

          The economic condition of many parts of the world is currently looking worse than a few years ago. Thus many p...

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

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

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?

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...

A gasbag hybrid that isn’t full of hot air is featured in today’s BBC UK News (1). English technology has taken a leap to...

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