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How To Move a (Robotic) Arm with Only Your Brain
The merging of brains with computers and machines is a common trope in science fiction, and any time I read an article with a headline about mind-reading computers it hits both my “so cool” and “so creepy” buttons at the same time. Journalist Malcolm Gay’s first book “The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines” takes…
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Fear (The Good Bits)
Margee Kerr’s book “Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear” is less a book about how fear works – the so-titled “science of fear” – and more about why we choose to be afraid. Because we do often choose it: the adrenaline rush of a roller coaster, the tension and chills of a scary movie, the scream-turned-laughter of a…
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Skepchick Sundaylies, with Biodynamic Wine, Student Evaluations, and Eating Your Placenta
Sunday Funny: The Future will still have cheat days. (via Poorly Drawn Lines) Teen Skepchick Sex Ed with James Dobson: Feelings, Nothing More Than Feelings. With Bonus Rigid Gender Roles. Elizabeth tries to learn something about emotion from James Dobson, but just finds frustrating gender roles. Mad Art Lab The (Literal) Magic of Biodynamic Wine – Mad Art Cast The…
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Skepchick Sundaylies! The Dress, Dangers of Anti-Vaxxers, and High School Dating
Sunday Funny: Embarrassing. (via Liz Climo) Teen Skepchick The Not So Beautiful Game, Step 11 and Last: In Which Our Narrator Dispenses Parting Cliches Elizabeth has finally finished the mostly-boring but sometimes unpleasant book, “The Game.” Mad Art Lab The Photo is Bad. The Dress is Blue. Your Brain is Lying. Ryan takes on THE dress. Breaking the Shackles Procreative:…
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Skepchick Sundaylies: 50 Shades of Fail, Food Babe “Haters,” Fighting Memes with Memes, and an Asgardian Breastplate
Sunday Funny: What would Jesus think about 50 Shades of Grey? (via Cyanide and Happiness) Teen Skepchick The Physics Philes, lesson 129: Return of Heat Capacities! Mindy finally explains why you need to know about the kinetic-molecular model of ideal gases. The Not So Beautiful Game, Step 10: In Which Critical Thinking Would be Better than Mindlessly Following Directions and…
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Skepchick Sundaylies: Computer Gamer, Silent Spring, and Doodling Dongs
Sunday Funnies: Adventures of Not-All-Man! (via Please Listen to Me); Girl Pants (via Sociological Images and Dumbing of Age) Teen Skepchick Science Sunday: Go to the Computer! Elizabeth explains why the computer Crazy Stone is playing Go so well, and why it’s so impressive. The Physics Philes, lesson 93: Do the Wave Mechanical waves! How do they work? The Cool…
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ICYMI: November 17 – November 23 on the Skepchick Network
Teen Skepchick The Physics Philes, lesson 74: The Motion of Planets Mindy reviews the three laws of planetary motion. Speak Your Mind: Mars v. Saturn NASA is facing tough budget decisions. Which planet should we continue to explore? Mad Art Lab Happy Sloth Day and Merry Slothmas Amy celebrates Sloth Day with art! Art Inquisition: What’s that Sound? What makes…
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