Jonah Lehrer has a great piece about classroom creativity. “The traits mostly closely aligned with creative thinking were also closely associated with their "least favorite" students.” Great comments too.
At Neuron Culture, David Dobbs has his own take on the news that Williams syndrome children show no racial bias; it’s interesting and ties in nicely with a comment on my own post, written by the father of a child with Williams syndrome
ScienceBlogs has scored multiple home runs with their latest recruits – Alex Wild of Myrmecos, whose blog contains some of the most stunning photos of insect life you’ll ever see, and Jason Goldman of The Thoughtful Animal, author of some great posts on peer-reviewed research.
Alex immediately knocks it out of the park with these photos of the turtle ant, a species that plugs the entrances to its burrows using the incredible head-shields that some workers have.
“The ...