Be you an armadillo or not, others may or may not perceive you to be unique. The how and why of that gets a vigorous (and possibly unique) writeup in this study: “What Makes Each of Us Unique? The Nine-Banded Armadillo as a Model to Study Individuality,” Delva P. Leao, Alvaro Duque, and Marcelo O. […]
Tidsskriftet, the Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association, published an article two years ago (on September 25, 2023) with the headline “Statistics lessons from a salmon“. That article is about the project that was honored with the 2012 Ig Nobel Prize for Neuroscience, “for demonstrating that brain researchers, by using complicated instruments and simple statistics, […]
Eleanor Maguire died on January 4, 2025. Here is the beginning of her obituary, written by Calli McMurray, in The Transmitter: Remembering Eleanor Maguire, ‘trailblazer’ of human memory Maguire, mastermind of the famous London taxi-driver study, broadened the field and championed the importance of spatial representations in memory. By Calli McMurray 10 January 2025 One […]
A technically roundabout look at the bits and bobs that altogether are a lamb brain — that was the goal of a team of researchers in Spain, the UK, and China. You can see what they say they saw by reading their study: “PoLambRimetry: a multispectral polarimetric atlas of lamb brain,” Verónica Mieites Alonso, Giulio […]