Apparently human females go into heat, contrary to a common assumption. The evidence is that professional lap dancers receive significantly more tips during the phase following ovulation, i.e., when they are fertile. (From an article in the last issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.)
Neuroethics is now accepting submissions. (More information at Experimental Philosophy.)
2nd CFP: e-Learning in Dialogue: Innovative Teaching and Learning in Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies.
* The Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies (PRS) is organising an international two-day conference, ‘e-Learning in Dialogue: Innovative Teaching and Learning in Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies’ to be held in York on May 14th-15th 2008…
An article that recently appeared in Current Biology reports that Neanderthals shared with us the gene FOXP2 — the only gene known to be involved in the development of normal linguistic competence. This suggests that, contrary to previous assumptions, Neanderthals might have had a language like we do. (A couple of quick …
A workshop on theory of mind just took place at USC. The program webpage contains some links to recent work on the subject, including a review article on mirror neurons (published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience).
There are four articles about sleeping (1, 2, 3, 4) in today’s NY Times.
A student of mine found a bot that thinks it’s God. You can chat with it here. The conversation can be pretty funny at times.
