Scientific Literacy

September 24, 2007 in General Info, Media

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 [...]

Tasty Quote

August 19, 2007 in General Info

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.
Atlas Shrugged, p. 739

A list of CogSci blogs

February 2, 2007 in General Info

Here’s a list of cognitive science-related blogs I stole from an Encephalon callout.

Neurophilosophy
The Thinking Meat Project
The Neurocritic
Omni Brain
Mind Hacks

Subscribe with your favorite RSS reader (I prefer Google Reader) and digest some of the latest goings on in the field(s) of cognitive science. More to come in the future. If you have a cogsci-related blog you’d [...]

Hello.

January 31, 2007 in General Info

If you’re here, you’re probably either a current member of SOCS or somebody who happens to be interested in cognitive science. I’m Patrick Mundy, and Jeff Alstott and I are the SOCS co-presidents. You’ll be seeing posts from both of us, as well as from the SOCS webmaster, Jordan [...]