Archive for September, 2007
According to this study, high-altitude climbing can cause brain damage. This is not good news for those who wish to climb Everest naked.
Though the expedition suffered no major mishaps and none of the 12 professional climbers suffered any obvious signs of high-altitude illness, only one of the 13 climbers returned with a normal brain scan. [...]
Seed magazine recently held an essay contest on the topic of scientific literacy. You should read the winning entries.
From the winner:
Students must be convinced that changing one’s mind in light of the evidence is not weakness: Changing one’s mind is the essence of intellectual growth. By forcing students into evidence-based debates with one another, this [...]
UK cognitive scientists studying reading have discovered the mechanics behind how our eyes read a written page.
The team’s results demonstrated that both eyes lock on to the same letter 53% of the time; for 39% of the time they see different letters with uncrossed eyes; and for 8% of the time the eyes are crossing [...]
Mind Hacks has some videos of MRI machines gone bad. Behold the power of human ingenuity.
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