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So, where do you get your regular doses of free science mindcandy? Don't take science too literally here - I'm talking about everything with an academic bent, whether it's lit crit, cog-neuro-psych, economics, anthropology, history or just informed musings on any topic.
I tend to read psychology blogs to keep up on new findings and controversies that pop up, but also like to dip into economics, anthropology, the occasional physics and biology-driven blogs. Lately I've even started to have a gander at some urban design/planning/architecture type of stuff, as these kinds of practices have come to have more professional relevance for me as of late.
Some links to my most oft-visited sites:
Neuroanthropology is a great anthro blog - focussing on the intersections between biological and cultural anthropology, evolutionary sciences etc. Typically critical of the "selfish gene"-type evolutionary models extant in anthropology, psychology and related fields.
Mind Hacks is up there in the psych department. Covers most of the bases in psych, although it's heavily slanted towards experimental work. Which reminds me - does anyone know of any psych blogs covering mainly qualitative studies?
The Situationist is another gem, perched on the threshold between psychology and law, economics and policy. From their About page: "There is a dominant conception of the human animal as a rational, or at least reasonable, preference-driven chooser, whose behavior reflects preferences, moderated by information processing and will, but little else. Laws, policies, and the most influential legal theories are premised on that same conception. Social psychology and related fields have discovered countless ways in which that conception is wrong."
The Language Log. The only linguistics blog that's ever kept my attention. Wanna know all about the plausibility of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis or post-Chomskian theories of language evolution? No? Really?
I stumbled across Not Even Wrong a few years back when noodling around the web looking for critics of string theory. It's great for that, and it used to have a fantastically entertaining.. quite entertaining war going on with Lubos. Don't know a Lubos from your brane-world? Find the fuck out.
And finally, cuz I reaally ought to get back to working, my fave capitalist scum-pig-bags over at Marginal Revolution deserve a shout out before they are shot as the execrable class traitors they surely are.
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