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How do we feel pain?

By Guest PostJanuary 24, 2014Healthalleviate pain, analgesic effect, cafeteria job, capsaicin, cell disease, chili peppers, city university, darryl hamamoto, do, donald simone, endogenous, feel pain, hot component, how, iryna khasakova, new york, northeastern university, pain fibers, pain hypersensitivity, pain model, spinal cord, synthetic cannabinoid, tumor cells, we, yale medical school

One day Donald Simone, then a psychology major at Northeastern University, was thumbing through the job listings for work-study students.

He found several choices, including a cafeteria job and one in a neuroscience lab. He decided to try the science lab.

“It was studying eye movements and the parts of the brain that control them in different conditions, for example, darkness,” says Simone. “I went into that lab and ended up loving it. I thought doing anything with the brain was fascinating.” (more…)

Women See Naked Men Differently Too

By Guest PostNovember 12, 2011Culture, Scienceability, amount of skin shown, bedroom, benevolent sexism, career advancement, factors, feminist theory, inanimate object, kinds of mind view, kurt gray, men and women, mind, negative effects, northeastern university, people with bare skin, perception, psychologist, revealing attire, self control, sexes, united states, university of maryland, yale

COLLEGE PARK, Md – For both men and women, wearing revealing attire causes them to be seen as more sensitive but less competent, says a new study by University of Maryland psychologist Kurt Gray and colleagues from Yale and Northeastern University. (more…)

WHOI Study Sheds Light on Tunicate Evolution

By Guest PostJuly 4, 2011Scienceascidians, complex life cycles, doliolids, free-swimming types of tunicates, gelatinous, genetically sequencing 40 new specimens of thaliaceans, govindarajan, journal of plankton research, northeastern university, ocean ecosystems, phylum of animals, planktonic, pyrosomes, salps, sea squirts, study of tunicate evolution, surface to the deep sea, thaliaceans, transfer of organic matter, woods hole oceanographic institution (whoi)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers have filled an important gap in the study of tunicate evolution by genetically sequencing 40 new specimens of thaliaceans, gelatinous, free-swimming types of tunicates. Their study was featured on the cover of the June issue of the Journal of Plankton Research.

Tunicates are a phylum of animals closely related to vertebrates, with a firm, rubbery outer covering called a tunic, from which the name derives. (more…)

Study of Death Penalty in North Carolina Shows That ‘Race Matters’

By Guest PostJuly 26, 20101 commentGeneral, Politicsboston, death sentences, fbi, glenn pierce, law review, michael radelet, north Carolina, northeastern university, professor, race matters, racial justice act, school of criminology and criminal justice, sociology, supplemental homicide reports, university of colorado at boulder, us supreme court

A new study examining death sentences in North Carolina over a 28-year period ending in 2007 shows that among similar homicides, the odds of a death sentence for those who are suspected of killing whites are approximately three times higher than the odds of a death sentence for those suspected of killing blacks.

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How do we feel pain?

Women See Naked Men Differently Too

WHOI Study Sheds Light on Tunicate Evolution

Study of Death Penalty in North Carolina Shows That ‘Race Matters’