CogSci Librarian

Interesting article in last week's Times about a recent conference by the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC). ...

Thanks to Maura for pointing me to XKCD , an amusing and entertaining comic-blog covering "romance, sarcasm, math, and language." ...

Just heard a great lecture / podcast by Simon Winchester on the Oxford English Dictionary. Winchester spoke at TVOntario’s Big Ideas show i...

The August 3 episode of ScienceFriday featured an interview with Columbia psychology professor Tor Wager about his research on the placebo e...

Have you tried the Flock browser yet? I’m using it on a Mac, and it’s faster than FireFox & cooler than Safari. Here’s what I like, so ...

(Part 2 of my series summarizing John Bean's book Engaging Ideas ) Bean offers a lot of ideas on how to both make papers easier to grade...

The conservative librarians' approach to library promotion: if the idea won't reach lots & lots of our potential audience, we d...

Some Librarian points us to a 2006 article in Singapore's Annals of the Academy of Medicine entitled Interesting In- and Outpatient At...

Did you know that rats laugh? Jaak Panksepp, neuroscientist at Bowling Green State University, talks about how rats actually laugh. Scienc...

Another in an occasional series of posts about vendors helping libraries promote their wares. From EBSCO The library database vendor EBSCOHo...