Lazy Saturday. Rather than grade the stack of exams currently waiting for me, I am letting them sit in my office so that some of their germy coating can die off before I handle them too extensively. This may be paranoid and deranged, but (a) why look an excuse for procrastination in the mouth, and (b) there were a couple of all too vivid occasions on which a student was schnurfling ostentatiously with one hand (and nose) and handing me the exam with the other. SCHRURGHFRFRFRF. Mm, swiney delicious.
Cecily sent me this charming piece of brain imaging research, showing that certain areas in the brains of deceased Atlantic salmon show activation during a cross-species perspective-taking task.
Hello, I'm a cogitating dead fish!
I know the feeling.
(The point of the poster, of course--which is written in a delightfully dry tone, and you should click through to enjoy it--is that fMRI research often neglects to do all the cross-comparisons necessary to correct for false positives. If you're actually interested, you can read more about it here. But my point is that we're all a little bit like dead salmon, really, when you think about it, innit?)
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