Oh, a schizophrenic mouse! This or that part of the brain lights up when we are deciding to eat this pie or that…An ‘experiment’ using MRI to find out why women like shoes … Read More »
Monthly Archives:: March 2013
How to Tell Good Art? Will Peer Review Work?
I write about art and science, their similarities and differences, their struggles and conciliations; how they are perceived… Read More »
Of (Schizophrenic) Mice and Man – Genes Don’t Tell All
Do animals suffer from mental illnesses?
Scientists from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (Caltech), have found that mice that lack a certain gene display schizophrenic behavior similar to those of humans. Read More »
The Aesthetic Experience Exposed – The Science
The New York critic Peter Schjeldahl’s flip-flop last year in his opinion of a painting, Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907), by Gustav Klimt started Read More »