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Friday, May 15. 2009

It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves

Growing new neurons throughout life: Micro mRNA and neurogenesis. Dang brain is quite remarkable.


Current advances in neuroscience go under-reported because the press doesn't understand it any better than they understand any science or basic economics.


Journalists seem, to me, to be the ultimate "I was told there would be no math" people, who should never have been admitted to any college.

Posted by Bird Dog in Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 11:53 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Not only neurons. Also hair and fingernails.
#1 Ron Hardin (Link) on 2009-05-15 11:55 (Reply)
Yeah. And what about the liver? It seems to be able to regenerate itself (at least a healthy one does). THAT totally amazes me that it can regenerate and STOP when it reaches the right size. Cut a piece off...it grows back and just stops.
#2 JoeC on 2009-05-15 12:38 (Reply)
You mean like NY Times economics reporters going into foreclosure?: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/magazine/17foreclosure-t.html?_r=3&hp=&pagewanted=all

It's a wonder he can feed and clothe himself, much less write
#3 John P on 2009-05-15 14:49 (Reply)
Thanks (I think) JP. That article, coming from an economics writer, was astounding. Shameful on several levels. Is it any wonder the NYT itself is in financial trouble if even their "economic expert" reporters are so clueless in their personal financial lives?
#3.1 KRW on 2009-05-15 21:28 (Reply)
Whoa. Nice insult to Marianne, BD. Also you linked to a blog about psychiatry written by a journalist and claimed it was excellent. It is - one of my daily haunts for a long time now.

Matt Ridley. I've read everything he's written. I doubt I would have understood half of it had the scientists he wrote about written the works. "Genome"; "The Red Queen"; "Nature vs. Nurture" are three of his books.

sigh.... I'm depressed at why people generalize.
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#4 Meta on 2009-05-15 17:51 (Reply)

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