{"id":1142,"date":"2013-02-27T15:08:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2013-02-27T15:08:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T20:08:24","slug":"wednesday-links-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonblogs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/02\/27\/wednesday-links-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the paucity of links this week, but I have been spending a significant portion of my days either sleeping or wandering about wishing I were asleep.  This should keep you busy for a little while, though.<\/p>\n<p>Carl Zimmer explains what&#8217;s up with the <a href=\"http:\/\/phenomena.nationalgeographic.com\/2013\/02\/22\/on-the-possible-shapes-of-the-brain\/\" title=\"Possible shapes of the brain\" target=\"_blank\">wrinkly brains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Theory of Mind describes our ability to understand the emotions and thoughts of others by relating them to our own.  Rebecca Saxe is using fMRI to study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/article\/510966\/the-story-of-a-study-of-the-mind\/\" title=\"Theory of Mind\" target=\"_blank\">how it develops<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/18\/science\/project-seeks-to-build-map-of-human-brain.html?smid=tw-share&#038;_r=1&#038;pagewanted=all&#038;\" title=\"Brain Map Project\" target=\"_blank\">Human Brain Map Project<\/a> proposed by President Obama sounds really cool, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlanticwire.com\/technology\/2013\/02\/why-some-scientists-arent-happy-about-obamas-3-billion-brain-research-plan\/62258\/\" title=\"scientists aren't happy\" target=\"_blank\">some scientist<\/a>s have what sound like legitimate gripes about it.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Stewart interviewed Steven Brill about his Time Magazine Article, <a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2013\/02\/20\/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us\/\" title=\"Bitter Pill\" target=\"_blank\">Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us<\/a>, and didn&#8217;t ask him too many tough questions about his information.  However, Matthew Iglesias did in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/moneybox\/2013\/02\/22\/brill_on_health_care_steven_brill_s_opus_on_hospital_prices.html\" title=\"Slate on Steven Brill\" target=\"_blank\">Slate<\/a>, and David Dobbs agreed and added a story of his own as illustration on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2013\/02\/actually-mr-brill-fixing-healthcare-is-kinda-simple\/\" title=\"Wired on Steven Brill\" target=\"_blank\">Wired<\/a>.  (H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/misscellania.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Miss Cellania\" target=\"_blank\">Miss Cellania<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Gorillas playing in leaves!!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3-wOQJuG13I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for the paucity of links this week, but I have been spending a significant portion of my days either sleeping or wandering about wishing I were asleep. This should keep you busy for a little while, though. Carl Zimmer explains what&rsquo;s up with the wrinkly brains. 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