Brain Science Podcast Forum has launched!

by Ginger Campbell, MD on July 9, 2007

No fancy graphics yet, but the Brain Science Podcast Forum is now available. I have been getting great comments and emails and I hope this will give people a better chance to share their ideas with not just me, but with everyone else.

Tagged as: brain, discussion, forum, science

{ 7 comments }

Matthew Loxton July 16, 2007 at 5:13 pm: In one of your recent podcasts (15?) you stated that only the great apes are self aware.
I understand that the mirror-dot test showed that elephants are also self-aware.
docartemis July 16, 2007 at 6:48 pm: Matthew,

Thanks so much for your post about elephants. Do you have a source? When I was recording that I was quoting Goldberg’s book but in the back of my mind I also wondered about elephants, dolphins and whales.

Feel free to post also at http://brainscienceforum.com.
Matthew Loxton July 16, 2007 at 9:56 pm: Dr.Campbell,

The most recent article I have read was “I, Elephant” By Kaspar Mossmanin in the February 2007 issue of Scientific American Mind.

The study referred to was “Self-recognition in an Asian elephant”. By: Plotnik, Joshua M.; de Waal, Frans B. M.; Reiss, Diana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 11/7/2006, Vol. 103 Issue 45, p17053-17057

btw, thanks for the podcasts, I have subscribed and downloaded as many as I could. They form part of my 2x45min commute each day. I have found them a good balance between layspeak and authoritative.

Instead of listening to incendiary shock-jocks and frustrating news I can be sure to have nearly two hours of informative and interesting material that can be paused and replayed if I need.
I rate your podcast in the group of Lancet, BMJ, JAMA, NEJM, and Science. Not as entertaining as Prairie Home Companion perhaps, but far better presented than a Neuroscience podcast I could name! ;)

Thanks.
schemingturkey October 3, 2007 at 10:17 am: hey everyone,

i just joined and wanted to say hi. :)
hollywoodheidi October 19, 2007 at 8:08 am: Hi! I just found this forum and it looks really cool.

Now, I gotta run off and read some posts. :)
veifierly October 25, 2007 at 9:27 am: Hi everyone,

I’m a noob here. And it seems like an awesome place.

I just wanted to give a nice “how’s it going” to all of you here.

:)

-Dana
docartemis October 27, 2007 at 1:59 pm: Just a reminder for new visitors: There is a place on the Discussion Forum where you can say HI and introduce yourself. Here is the link:

http://www.docartemis.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?fid=15&topic_id=1185820458