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| Insect minds for human minds |
| I just found this book chapter by our Professor Emeritus Randolf Menzel on Scribd and thought I should share it. It's a neat overview of how insects in general and honeybees in particular can help us solve some of the my...[more] |
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| Posted on Monday 26 January 2009 - 09:19:37 |
| Insect neurobiology symposium in Munich, session 5 |
| Couldn't live-blog the fourth session of our 'family' meeting, because the Max Planck Institute where we are located has a policy that all WiFi guest-accounts expire over night - and I thought a 'day' had 24h... Anyway, t...[more] |
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| Posted on Saturday 12 December 2009 - 12:19:49 |
| Insect neurobiology symposium in Munich, session 6 |
| After a brief lunch break, we went on to the next session. Lisa Bogusch from our department in Berlin started out by telling us how sleep is required for proper long-range navigation of honeybees. She uses RFID technolog...[more] |
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| Posted on Saturday 12 December 2009 - 15:40:43 |
| Why do we like to move it? An evolutionary hypothesis concerning motor control and reward. |
| I met Columbia neurologist John Krakauer (who has a very interesting brother at the Santa Fe Institute, by the way) at the 2006 SfN meeting in Atlanta after his ...[more] |
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| Posted on Tuesday 30 September 2008 - 16:46:00 |
| Insects FTW: Beetle bests toad |
| Insects can do things nobody expects - they even eat those much larger than them who are out to eat them: ...[more] Via New Scientist. |
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| Posted on Thursday 02 June 2011 - 11:59:23 |
| From consciousness to biogenic amines in insects |
| After an 11 hour odyssey at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France, I'm finally back in Berlin. Unfortunately, I missed the first day of the symposium organized by our research unit on biogenic amines in insects due ...[more] |
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| Posted on Saturday 07 July 2012 - 11:18:35 |