NeurologicaBlog

[[{“value”:”It is an interesting time in human history for our understanding of life in the universe. We have the technology and basic knowledge to search for the signs of life on other planets, but we have not yet detected any.…

[[{“value”:”The carbon nanofiber revolution has been slower than hoped. This is one of the drawbacks of being a technophile and following tech news – you hear about exciting technology years before it is realized, and many of the tantalizing breakthroughs…

[[{“value”:”The Nobel Prize is often awarded not to researchers who made a huge discovery about how the world works, but to those who have developed techniques that improve research itself. The downstream effects of such developments are likely to be…

[[{“value”:”Stephen J Gould (still my favorite science essayist) wrote an excellent article in 1985 (Red Wings in the Sunset, later published in his book, Bully for Brontosaurus) about artist and naturalist Abbott Handerson Thayer. Thayer wrote about how animals use…

[[{“value”:”Dog owners (of which I am one) tend to develop a strong sense that their dogs understand what they are saying. Research actually supports this conclusion. In a 2016 study dogs were able to respond to praise words without intonation,…

[[{“value”:”This is a tiny bit of good news it what has been a horrific story for American science over the last almost two years. Trump has backtracked on his attempts to politicize science funding at the NIH, and throughout the…