Craigslist Missed Connections for Cicadas [The New Yorker]
h/t: @_inundata
![Ouch, but too true. [@DanGraur]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/9cb50b9c7e70d4f152c17992de76a2bb/tumblr_moco2sH5p11qzs6yjo1_1280.png)
Ouch, but too true. [@DanGraur]
People love to talk about the intersection between science and art but I don’t think that this is what they have in mind. This paper is an instant classic,
Abstract: I measured preference for paintings (Renoir vs. Picasso or Kandinsky vs. Mondrian) in mice. In general mice did not display a painting preference except for two mice: one preferred Renoir to Picasso, and the other preferred Kandinsky to Mondrian. Thereafter, I examined discrimination of paintings with new mice. When exposure to paintings of one artist was associated with an injection of morphine (3.0 mg/kg), mice displayed conditioned preference for those paintings, showing discrimination of paintings by Renoir from those by Picasso, and paintings by Kandinsky from those by Mondrian after the conditioning. They also exhibited generalization of the preference to novel paintings of the artists. After conditioning with morphine for a set of paintings consisting of two artists, mice showed discrimination between two sets of paintings also from the two artists but not in association with morphine. These results suggest that mice can discriminate not only between an artist’s style but also among paintings of the same artist. When mice were trained to discriminate a pair of paintings by Kandinsky and Renoir in an operant chamber equipped with a touch screen, they showed transfer of the discrimination to new pairs of the artists, but did not show transfer of discrimination of paintings by other artists, suggesting generalization.
Scientist raises concerns about impact on child development, saying toymaker’s themes are increasingly based on conflict
I’m glad that someone studied this because I was becoming quite worried. Thanks science!
By way of harikondabolu:
I did a piece on Totally Biased about the National Spelling Bee aka THE INDIAN SUPERBOWL. Congrats to fellow Queens native Arvind Mahankali!
On the Indian Super Bowl: “Six winners in a row. Six in a row son, that’s incredible! So it gives me great pleasure to finally say, hey white people learn the language.”
I think we can all agree that debugging is the worst.
By way of vorsoisson:
Early computer bug: a moth found in relay #70, Panel F of the Harvard Mark II, preserved and logged by the inimitable and amazing Admiral Grace Hopper.
(via gender-and-science)
