Article from Economist Magazine regarding researchers wanting more open access to information and science publishers being unhappy about it. God bless the internet.

Science Publishing Needs to be more open

A must-have for mad science laboratories everywhere.

Only you can prevent Gray Goo

Special Issue on the Cognitive/Brain Sciences.

Special Issue of Scientific American

This groundbreaking book is the first volume to bring together all the major theories of consciousness studies--from those rooted in traditional Western philosophy to those coming out of neuroscience, quantum theory, and Eastern philosophy.

Susan Blackmore, the author of The Meme Machine, was written a book about a wide variety of issues, including lucid dreaming, philosophy of mind, and cognitive neuroscience.

Consciousness, by Susan Blackmore

A goldmine of memetic discussion I recently found published on the internet with no subscription fee. Just click on "index of all issues". The advisory board contains the memetic heavyweights Susan Blackmore,Gary Cziko, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett,Liane Gabora, and David Hull.

Journal of Memetics- Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission

An old debunker's adage goes (in various iterations), "You can never be too skeptical." Lately, largely because of my run-ins with "skeptics" of evolution, I've become increasingly convinced that this slogan is fundamentally flawed. Consider, for example, what happens when a predisposition towards skepticism leads one to doubt a consensus view in the scientific community, or to pooh-pooh a possibility that many leading scientists consider highly likely. Taken to extremes, it can lose its usefulness and even lead to perverse outcomes.

Abuses of Skepticism

Pictures of Magnetic Liquids being pulled around by electro-magnetics. Pretty interesting images of the topography of magnetism. Site is slow, good things come to those who wait.

Magnetic Fields