A while back I wrote about self-control in ‘Tired Dogs Make Dumb Choices. The study “Too dog tired to avoid danger: Self-control depletion in canines increases behavioral approach toward an aggressive threat” has also prompted a blog post from new-age writer Lee Charles Kelley and in his usual manner he misreads the findings and superimposes…
“As children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror…” – Lucretius, On the Nature of Things Viennese physician Franz-Joseph Gall (1758-1828) believed that organs on the surface of the brain…
One of the problems and joys of having a research-centric blog is that I am always trailing the latest findings. I was writing something else (you may have seen the draft published by mistake) and then I came across this new Finnish study from the journal Pediatrics. It’s more evidence on the potential beneficial effects…
The 112th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology was held last week in San Francisco, and among the many papers presented was one about dogs, microbiomes and asthma. By the late 90s it had become evident that the prevalence of allergic diseases and asthma was on the rise in urban populations of developed…
You’ve read ‘Hair Whorls in Dogs‘, and located and identified your dog’s whorls. Hopefully it was fun for all involved, but the story of hair whorls doesn’t end as mere anatomical curiosity; there is more to the story. As I wrote in the previous blog, I was originally looking into sensory and motor laterality in…
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