Tagged: communication

Anti-fluoride group coordinator responds to my article - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • Mar 13, 2018 •

• birth weight,
• communication,
• David Clark,
• fluoride,
• fluorosis,
• gestational age,
• Health and Medicine,
• IQ,
• pregnancy,
• Science,
• Science and Society,
• variables,
• water

My recent article Paul Connett’s misrepresentation of maternal F exposure study debunked got some online feedback and criticism from anti-fluoride activists. Mary Byrne, National coordinator Fluoride Free New Zealand, wrote a response and requested it is published on SciBlogs “in the interests of putting the record straight and providing balance.” I welcome her response and have posted it here. Hopefully, this will … Read More

How landline phones made us happy and connected - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 06, 2018 •

• communication,
• digital media,
• extrovert,
• human contact,
• human relationship,
• introvert,
• landline,
• optimism,
• phone,
• Psychology,
• resilient,
• smartphones,
• socialising,
• talking,
• technology

Barbara Keys, University of Melbourne This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Smartphones and the internet have revolutionised society, commerce, and politics, reshaping how we work and play, and how our brains are wired. They have even revolutionised how revolutions are made. For enthusiasts, these technologies enhance freedom and … Read More

Who’s afraid of Noam Chomsky? - Mind Matters

Michael Corballis • Feb 26, 2018 •

• Biblical,
• biology,
• communication,
• evolution,
• grammar,
• intellect,
• James D. McCawley,
• language,
• Noam Chomsky,
• Prometheus,
• Psychology,
• scientific,
• Skinner,
• theory,
• writing

Me. But let’s press on regardless. Noam Chomsky is a polarising figure in modern intellectual life. Best known in popular discourse for his radical criticism of US foreign policy, he has written countless best-selling book on this and related political topics. It is as a philosopher and linguist, though, that he is likely to be best remembered intellectually, … Read More

How do emojis change our communication? - The Psychology Report

Sarb Johal • Apr 03, 2017 •

• communication,
• emoji,
• emotional contagion,
• online communication,
• smile,
• Social media

In this Psychology Report, I talked with Dr Michael Philipp of Massey University School of Psychology here in New Zealand. Michael and his students are interested in how emoji and emoticons are used in computer based communication – so, those emails tweets and Facebook posts – that kind of thing. You can listen to the podcast as well … Read More

What’s behind phantom cellphone buzzes? - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 20, 2017 •

• cellphones,
• communication,
• digital,
• Mental health,
• Mobile,
• phantom,
• Social,
• technology

By Daniel J. Kruger, University of Michigan Have you ever experienced a phantom phone call or text? You’re convinced that you felt your phone vibrate in your pocket, or that you heard your ring tone. But when you check your phone, no one actually tried to get in touch with you. You then might plausibly wonder: “Is … Read More

Do we use only 10 percent of our brain? - Mind Matters

Michael Corballis • May 05, 2016 •

• brain,
• communication,
• diversity,
• language,
• potential

Do we use only 10 percent of our brain? That idea has been around for a long time, but we now know it’s not true. Brain imaging fails to show large regions of quiescence, as expected if we only used a small fraction of the stuff that occupies the skull. Even when we’re at rest a widespread “default” network remains … Read More

gmo free usa – attacking the man and not the ball - BioBlog

Alison Campbell • Aug 11, 2015 •

• communication,
• genetics

OK, so I'm back (from a lovely long overseas trip). And I had thought to write something 'light' to ease myself back into blogging, but then I see that scientist and science communicator, Kevin Folta, is currently experiencing some... Read More

tips for effective on-line science outreach - BioBlog

Alison Campbell • Apr 19, 2015 •

• blogging,
• communication,
• critical thinking,
• criticalthinking,
• education,
• nature of science,
• natureofscience,
• new science stories,
• newsciencestories

As you'll have gathered, I'm finding Facebook - and now Twitter - great sources of information, whether it's for teaching, sharing with my students (& others!), or blogging about. And today, this paper popped up on my Twitter feed:... Read More

warmth, empathy – and science communication - BioBlog

Alison Campbell • Apr 07, 2015 •

• blogging,
• communication

I recently started following Kevin Folta's blog, Illumination. (I'm sorry I didn't come across it earlier; it's very good.) His latest post quotes a comment from a Kansas farmer, made on a site opposed to Monsanto & its production of GM crops,... Read More

Monday Micro – could microbes help our understanding of the evolution of language? - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Apr 28, 2014 •

• Aaron Foster,
• bacteria,
• bobtail squid,
• combinatorial communication,
• communication,
• gagaman,
• humans,
• Luke Harris,
• PLOS One,
• primates,
• quorum sensing,
• Thomas Scott-Phillips

It seems far-fetched, but researchers are claiming that microbes could help us understand how language evolved, specifically combinatorial communication, in which two signals are used together to achieve an effect that is different to the sum of the effects of the component parts. Humans use combinatorial communication when we join words together to give a word with a new meaning. Read More