• Educators for Reproductive Freedom

  Educators for Reproductive Freedom is a group of faculty and staff from Northern Kentucky University that aims to build a campus network of faculty and staff interested in promoting reproductive rights; promote campus-wide discussion of reproductive rights through regular programs and a listserv; support NKU student groups with an interest in the issue; and network with community groups who support reproductive rights.

  tags: reproductive, freedom, rights, choice, grue

• What it's like to be a bat

  "Not many people think about what it's like to be a bat, but for those who do, it's enlightening and potentially groundbreaking for understanding aspects of the human brain and nervous system. Cynthia Moss, a member of the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science program at the University of Maryland, College Park, Md., is one of few researchers who spend time trying to get into the heads of bats."

  tags: brain, qualia, consciousness, grue, AZB

• How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain

  "The brain does not simply gather and stockpile information as a computer?s hard drive does. Facts are stored first in the hippocampus, a structure deep in the brain about the size and shape of a fat man?s curled pinkie finger. But the information does not rest there. Every time we recall it, our brain writes it down again, and during this re-storage, it is also reprocessed. In time, the fact is gradually transferred to the cerebral cortex and is separated from the context in which it was originally learned. For example, you know that the capital of California is Sacramento, but you probably don?t remember how you learned it." ( NYTimes.com)

  tags: brain, memory, grue

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