Brain Books for Kids
My eight year old son just wrapped up his science presentation project for school, a large poster that he’ll share with his class and then judges at the school’s version of a Science Fair. His topic?...
View ArticleRaising IQ: Nicholas Kristof Meets Richard Nisbett
Nicholas Kristof has an op-ed today, How to Raise Our I.Q. He opens with a standard version of the individual meritocracy argument, that IQ is largely inherited: Poor people have I.Q.’s significantly...
View ArticleTriune Ethics: On Neurobiology and Multiple Moralities
Editor’s Note: The following essay by Darcia Narvaez is based on her paper Triune Ethics: The Neurobiological Roots of Our Multiple Moral Personalities, which was part of the Notre Dame Symposium on...
View ArticleThe New Performance Enhancing Drugs
By Andrew Hessert, Andrew Medvecz, Jimmy Miller, Jacquelyn Richard Barry Bonds elevated his game to the next level with “the clear” and “the cream”, shattering legendary records in the process. Are...
View ArticleCulture and Compulsion: Student Posts 2009
Here are all the student posts from this year in the order I put them up. As a group they’ve already proven popular, getting attention from a range of high-power sites and social networks. That’s...
View ArticleSecond annual Neuroscience Boot Camp wants you!
Applications are now being accepted for the 2010 Neuroscience Boot Camp at the University of Pennsylvania. For more information, head on over to the Boot Camp website. Kezia Kamentz dropped me an email...
View ArticleSusan Blum, Plagiarism, and Anthropology
Susan Blum, my colleague at Notre Dame, is featured in a NY Times’ article today, Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age. The basic point of the article is that students, in the age of...
View ArticleThe Web Instead of Traditional Peer Review?
That’s a more accurate title, but I really wanted to call this post, Tenure Online? First off, I wanted to ask the question, what do professors out there think? Can peer-review be open sourced? Is...
View ArticleDaniel Lende: Looking for Graduate Students
Since I am now at the University of South Florida, I can finally mentor some graduate students! I encourage people to apply to the graduate program in anthropology here. USF accepts students at both...
View ArticleAnnouncing the Notre Dame Hub: Taking Students’ Academic Lives Online
The Hub @ Notre Dame is now live! The Hub takes students’ academic lives online, providing a platform for exploring ideas, presenting their work, and social networking within an academic community. I...
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