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Stephen Colbert, Scientific Pioneer
The Huffington Post: In my last post here, I explored what I called the science of “truthiness”: How we can come to understand the denial of science, on issues like global warming, by examining the
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Math Anxiety Is (Literally) in Your Head
Math can be a fun, logic puzzle for some people. But for others, doing math is a headache-inducing experience. Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have recently shown that people who experience math
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Putting and Perception: How does Tiger “see” Augusta?
I’m a huge Tiger Woods fan, and I’ve never wavered, even as he has suffered through one of the worst slumps in the history of golf. Tiger ruled the sport for more than a decade
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Fragrant Flashbacks
Memory and smell are intertwined; it’s through memory that we learn to remember smells, and disorders that take away memory also take away the ability to distinguish scents. Some of this learning starts even before
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April Fool’s! A Reading List All About Humor
Why did the chicken cross the road? And why is that joke never funny? Psychological science has the answers. Peter McGraw, who directs the Humor Research Lab at the University of Colorado, Boulder, offers this
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Rollercoaster of Emotion
My name is Rebekah L. Layton from the University at Albany and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC.
