September 20, 2007 – 2:19 pm
From SharpBrains.
Dr. Judith Beck is the Director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond.
Her most recent book is The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person.
Cognitive therapy, as [...]
September 19, 2007 – 8:59 pm
From National Geographic Magazine by Peter Gwin.
Modern pirates have long plagued Southeast Asia’s Strait of Malacca, robbing sailors, kidnapping crews, and stealing entire ships.
European colonizers and their navies brought the sultanates under control in the late 1800s, but the lanun were never eradicated. The 21st-century inheritors of their tradition continue to hunt these waters, mainly [...]
September 18, 2007 – 11:43 pm
From Physorg.com.
A team led by biophysicist Jeremy Smith of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has taken a significant step toward unraveling the mystery of how proteins fold into unique, three-dimensional shapes. Using ORNL’s Cray XT4 Jaguar supercomputer as well as computer systems in Italy and Germany, the team revealed a [...]
September 13, 2007 – 12:34 am
From Spiegel Online.
What may seem like simple amusement for Guinness and her fellow canines is in fact revolutionizing cognitive research. Range is the first animal researcher to attempt to lure domestic dogs to a touch screen. Scientists in her field have spent decades working with pigeons pecking at pictures, conversing with apes using brightly colored [...]
September 13, 2007 – 12:00 am
Play Bloxorz.
The game ’s objective is to put the block into the square hole by moving/flipping the block using the arrow keys. Stepping on a round switch (round button) will either connect or disconnect a bridge. There is also cross switch that is activated only when the block is standing vertically on its end. Orange [...]
September 8, 2007 – 11:56 pm
From Physorg.com.
Since Sky in Google Earth debuted two weeks ago to let the public explore the heavens from their computers, two University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have jumped in to populate Google’s sky with the most recently discovered heavenly objects.
This week, Google posted on its Web site another layer of information users can add to [...]