Brain art

Was browsing The Beautiful Brain for some art to save as my computer's desktop and found some lovelies:

It was hard to choose, but I started with the top one, since it has so much orange in it. I love orange.

Psychoanalysis and cucumbers...

My brain just took a left turn on that one, but anyway. There's no escaping the ever-present stereotype of Freudian Psychoanalysis. Not even on my kids' DVDs. Larry the Cucumber explores his love for his lips with the asparagus-therapist.

 

Neuroscientist Ryan Gosling strikes again

Oh, genetics jokes. Nice work there!

Inside a Toddler's Brain

 

A friend posted this on my FB page, though I have no idea about the original source. I giggled at "crayola oblongata". :)

Got the t-shirt...

A friend of mine posted a link to this T-shirt on facebook. I love the quote:


We love you for your brains, only not the way zombies love brains.

Click here to buy on Thinkgeek.com

Mentoring in pro football quarterbacks

As we were watching "Outside the Lines" this morning on ESPN, I realized this video dovetails nicely with the idea of Erikson's "Generativity vs. Stagnation" stage. Experienced quarterbacks, maybe even "aging" quarterbacks, as far as pro football goes, have a love/hate relationship with the idea of training up the next generation of quarterbacks - the players who will eventually replace them.

APS convention is coming, and I've been busy!

A month has gone by with many boxes being collected for our big move, and lots of planning with my future coworkers and bosses for the upcoming semester's course offerings. Is it too nerdy to say that it's so *fun* to do those things? :) Choosing textbooks (and getting sample copies for free!) is a singular joy of being a professor.

Anyway, I noticed that the APS convention is coming up in May (which I haven't been to in nearly a decade when it was in New Orleans!), but since it's a) in Chicago, and b) soon before our move, it wasn't even on my radar until recently. When I was on their webpage checking out the contents, I came across a series of interviews called "Inside the Psychologist's Studio" - probably a spoof on "Inside the Actors' Studio" - where they are interviewing heavyweights like Elizabeth Loftus and Paul Ekman. This year's convention will feature an interview with Brenda Milner, the psychologist who was famous for publishing the account of H.M.

Cool idea, APS!

Last for today, here's my newest "modern-art" (can I call it that?) find for office decor. Good grief, Etsy. So much cool stuff to be seen.