The world ’s first dog pictures, and looking at the planet from a quantum perspective
About 8000 years ago, people were drawing dogs with leashes, according to a series of newly described stone carvings from Saudi Arabia. Online News Editor David Grimm talks with Sarah Crespi about reporting on this story and what it says about the history of dog domestication. Sarah also interviews physicist Brad Marston of Brown University on surprising findings that bring together planetary science and quantum physics. It turns out that Earth ’s rotation and the presence of oceans and atmosphere on its surface mean it can be described as a “topological insulator”—a term usually reserved for quantum phenomena. Ins...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - November 22, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Nature Podcast: 19 October 2017
This week, neutron stars that are making waves in the physics world, and taking a look at the past to understand the future of work. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - October 19, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Nature Publishing Group Source Type: podcasts
19 October 2017: Neutron star gravitational waves & the future of work
This week, neutron stars that are making waves in the physics world, and taking a look at the past to understand the future of work. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - October 19, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
19 October 2017: Neutron star gravitational waves & the future of work
This week, neutron stars that are making waves in the physics world, and taking a look at the past to understand the future of work. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - October 19, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
19 October 2017: Neutron star gravitational waves & the future of work
This week, neutron stars that are making waves in the physics world, and taking a look at the past to understand the future of work. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - October 19, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Infants Reasoning About the World
The world may appear to be a ‘blooming, buzzing, confusion’ to infants, but within a few months infants are able to indulge in sophisticated cognition. They develop folk physical/astronomical theory, folk psychological theory, folk moral theory and folk biological theory, pretty rapidly.
This post is about those cognitive frameworks that infants develop and which more or less persist in adulthood.
An infant (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It had been my contention, that Autistic children are predominantly governed by physicalist explanations and frameworks, while those prone to psychosis indulged more in mentalisti...
Source: The Mouse Trap - September 7, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: cognition infants reasoning Source Type: podcasts
Backchat: June 2017
Our reporters and editors respond to the UK election. Plus, the tangled taxonomy of our species, and why physicists love to hate the standard model. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - June 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Nature Publishing Group Source Type: podcasts
Backchat: June 2017
Our reporters and editors respond to the UK election. Plus, the tangled taxonomy of our species, and why physicists love to hate the standard model. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - June 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Backchat: June 2017
Our reporters and editors respond to the UK election. Plus, the tangled taxonomy of our species, and why physicists love to hate the standard model. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - June 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Backchat: June 2017
Our reporters and editors respond to the UK election. Plus, the tangled taxonomy of our species, and why physicists love to hate the standard model. (Source: Nature Podcast)
Source: Nature Podcast - June 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Honoring William Uttal's Contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience (BS 132)
William Uttal 1931-2017 (click to play)Dr. William Uttal, who died last month at the age of 86, had a very unusual career, going from physics and engineering to psychology and cognitive science. I think his unique background contributed to the refreshing skepticism that he brought to the growing use of imaging (especially fMRI) in the cognitive sciences.He was a prolific writer on the subject and back in 2012 I had the honor of talking with him about his bookMind and Brain: A Critical Appraisal of Cognitive Neuroscience. In addition to shedding light on the limitations of imaging (such as poor reproducibility), Dr. Uttal a...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - March 31, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: brain imaging Cognitive Science Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
"A Gut Reaction" -- The Discovery Files
To harness bacteria for use in medicine or industry, or just to better understand how they thrive and spread, it's helpful to determine the consistency of their actions over time. That's where the math comes in. Georgia Tech researchers applied to the bacteria existing physics equations developed to precisely describe the interactions of atoms and molecules. (Source: The Discovery Files)
Source: The Discovery Files - March 30, 2017 Category: Science Authors: National Science Foundation Source Type: podcasts
