CogSci Librarian

Jane Gross writes in Sunday's New York Times about chemo brain , in which folks who have received chemotherapy also exhibit signs of sev...

There's been lots of research indicating that the left and right sides of human brains serve different functions. Turns out that birds,...

I don't usually like cute cat photos, but there is an interesting Internet meme going around about krazy kaptions of kat photos. I firs...

The New York Times article Study Uncovers Memory Aid: A Scent During Sleep says that smells may help us remember things better. They quote...

Simmons Graduate School of Library & Information Science is now podcasting some of their events -- yay! Called GSLIScast , these podcast...

Great set of stories in Newsweek a few weeks back on exercise. One article in particular, Can Exercise Make You Smarter? , by Mary Carmicha...

Sharon Begley uses her article April 9, 2007 article in Newsweek, In Our Messy Reptilian Brains to review a new book by Johns Hopkins profe...

Science Librarian pal Naka Ishii receommended a cog sci blog I hadn't known about, which leads me to post this short list of science bl...

I've been on a tear recently about the lack of library advertising & promotion. We should PROMOTE THE H*LL OUT OF LIBRARIES -- our s...

This is an informal poll, for the LIS crowd. If you were stranded on a desert isle, and you were lucky enough to continue doing reference fo...