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Chance Favours the Connected Mind

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Science has proven that I am an anti-social nerd

I just took a test that gives you an idea of your spot in the Autism spectrum. Here were my results: Autism Scale from 0 to 50 0 – 12 No Autism, essentially 13 14 15 Average woman, and average male or...

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Howlin’ Tucker Plays the Blues

This is fascinating. A scientist should study this.

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This study on the genetic basis of homosexuality is SO GAY

The BBC has a report on a recent study showing that the more older brothers you have, the more likely you’re gay, and that this is due to biological factors, not social ones. …the effect is probably...

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Calling All Web Comics

I am doing my honours thesis on comics. Which is pretty much the coolest thing ever. I need stimuli for my study, which means that I have to come up with a funny comic that’s not too popular (so the...

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In My Language

In My Language is a video by Amanda Baggs, an autistic and disability rights activist. I took a look at it because I thought it might interest a woman in my Attention seminar (she works with autistic...

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Direct Instruction: Yay or Nay?

Direct Instruction (DI) was developed by behaviourists Siegfried (Zig) Engelmann and Wesley Becker in 1967. DI does not address individual differences in children; it focuses on communicating concepts...

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The four sides to the education debate

There are four types of people fighting about education. They are: Teachers. Most of them know what they’re talking about, because they’re the ones on the front line. They can be divided into dumb...

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Wonder Twin Powers Activate! Form of… Thesis!

So I’m workin’ on the ol’ thesis. I’m citing a paper about working memory, theory of mind and humour and I just now paid attention to the non-primary authors in the study. The surnames are Uekermann,...

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Women are neurologically inferior!

FemaleScienceProfessor is commenting on a really depressing article by yet another sexist academic on the apparently unfair behaviour of Title IX and other diversity mandates in the States. It is a...

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Bletchley Park: The Undiscovered Country Estate (where we used computers to...

Image from the BBC I watched a documentary a few days ago called “Code-Breakers: Bletchley Park’s Lost Heroes,” about Tommy Flowers and Bill Tutte of Bletchley Park. Any time I watch a documentary...

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