Do you remember the first time you went to a yoga class? Did you think it was weird? Did you roll your eyes over something the teacher said (perhaps it was something you deemed “New Agey” or “Airy Fairy”)? Or maybe you were open to whatever was going on in class. Or maybe you felt […]

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Do you remember the first time you went to a yoga class? Did you think it was weird? Did you roll your eyes over something the teacher said (perhaps it was something you deemed “New Agey” or “Airy Fairy”)? Or maybe you were open to whatever was going on in class. Or maybe you felt […]

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A Roadmap for Migrating Neurons:
Politicians, pundits, and even your best friends occasionally do things that make you wonder how their brains are wired. The next time you have that thought, consider consulting a developmental neuroscientist: they work every day to understand the processes that wire up everyone’sbrains. It’s a mind-boggling job, because as an embryo […]

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I guess it’s not just doctors watching this one—an alert reader and a fellow SciBling both picked up on this one. Apparently, in my neighboring state of Minnesota (really, check the map), home to Greg Laden, PZ Myers, and lutefisk, doctor wannabes have legislated themselves into “doctorhood”. You see, there is this entity called a […]

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