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I just read something on MSNBC last night that said some industry (I think it was the insurance industry, but it could be pharmaceutical) is giving Obama $150 million to promote his bill. I actually like Obama's idea, it makes sense--nationalize the system by letting everyone who doesn't have...

It would take an awfully generous bra to make that happen for me, but anyway, you're supposed to wear a shirt under the second one... it's probably a little short, like a cropped vest I'm guessing...

Well, ok. Dennett's mostly known for being an adaptationist, and for a relatively reductionist cognitive model that would eliminate things like "qualia" from the scientific vocabulary. Out of context, that quote you've cited seems to line up quite well with what I've read of and by him. I...

Which one is better? click on it for a bigger pic The first one is more conservative so it would be passable at work. But the second one is more fun and would go with more casual clothes.

I would say it like this "the study of one neuron is neurology, the study of the mind is cognitive science, the study of one person's mind is psychology, the study of two people or more is sociology, the study of groups in their environment is evolutionary biology..." you could go on for a long...

You could think of it like hardware and software (yes I know...). Neurologists or neuroscientists study the "hardware" of the brain, its neurons, its internal structures, while psychologists study its "emergent" properties, sort of like software, where inputs from outside create outputs...these...

Technically the study of neurons or the brain as a whole organ is still neuroscience or actually "neurology". People do it all the time. Psychology is the study of thoughts, feelings, and behavior, and the ways in which these (sometimes) relate to physiological and neurological states. It's a...

my advice Katz Deli is an institution. The Lower East Side in general is decent for going out at night. Also, Harlem is a good day trip, there's tons to see there. Earwax is alright but Other Music is better. Knowing Idlerich's tastes though he's not going to be very impressed with either of...

Is there a realistic chance I could see this somewhere?

Right, but that's where the interesting reading is...when it comes to the "mainstream" in science, I suspect that's a little more elusive than it sounds, especially when it comes to theories of mind. Consensus really just isn't there, and the most interesting theories aren't the ones that make...

You don't know how many times I've tried to explain to my mother that the whole Jon/Kate "split" is a ratings-mongering PR charade and she just refuses to believe me. Old people are so gullible. Not that I wouldn't do something like that for money, but would I involve my kids? Probably...

The absolute worst fights, displays of violence, whatever you want to call them, that I have ever witnessed were girl-on-girl. I would never fight a girl. We used to have a fight or two everyday outside my school at this certain spot, and it was always the girl-on-girl fights that sent someone...

Good points...I don't want to hurt anyone or damage anyone, that thought is just unbearable, but I like playing around the limnal areas where the boundaries between what is pleasureable and what is painful blur slightly for myself. And I've always had a blurring there. I even remember going to...

Right, I've noticed that people who've been victims of violence tend to be the ones who are the most vocal opponents of it, across the board, even "military" or politically-sanctioned types. I know enough about being on the receiving end of several types of violence to know that there's...

Yes, and the feeling of autonomic rush, the adrenaline, the total black out, and then the intensity of the comedown is something too. They never quite get what's erotic about violence right, do they? In the media, what's presented as erotic in violence is always the element of one's asserting of...

Like this is a pretty sentence, but it makes no sense. We all have simian features--we're all primates--and we're far from "anatural", whatever that means. I'm not sure what neoteny has to do with any of this, either.

Yes, I read that...the writing is nice, but I don't think the movie is probably as good as it it sounds in this review. I really have no patience for the idea that because women menstruate, they are more "biological" "natural" or "irrational" or "weird" or what have you than men are, and...

I like the idea of casting off the layers of representation, or at least trying to, and I'm into a couple of hinduistical principles about the regenerative powers of erotic energy. I think you can make things better for yourself, or even make a new self, by focusing really hard. Not easy, but it...

@Mr. Tea A now semi-legendary quote from PZ Myers of Pharyngula blog, on the "courtier's reply": I have considered the impudent accusations of Mr Dawkins with exasperation at his lack of serious scholarship. He has apparently not read the detailed discourses of Count Roderigo of Seville on the...

If you're looking for a cognitive scientist's perspective, Paul and Patricia Churchland have written a lot of good books and articles. (I tend to prefer them over the "weights and balances" people but...)