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Venomous mammal caught on camera

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Eat it or lose it - why centuries of crop diversity are at risk

Centuries of crop diversity are at risk of being lost forever as farmers turn to just a few modern, high yielding varieties.

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US vows 'huge' marine protection

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Poetry or science?

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Holes give edge to new armour

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China alert over bird flu death

Chinese authorities shut down and clean poultry markets in Hebei province, after the first human death in nearly a year.

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Zimbabwe troops 'eat elephants'

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Baby Jupiter's huge weight gain

The planet Jupiter must have gained mass fast during its infancy, according to astronomers.

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'Wolfman' returns

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Earth Watch

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Everest trip helps critically ill

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Canadians claim South Pole record

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Tech fair offers greener vision

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Beagle hunter

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Mosquitoes make sweet love music

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Black holes 'preceded galaxies'

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Feilden's blog

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A panda at Beijing zoo bites a man for the third time in two years.

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First flight of algae-fuelled jet

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Cognitive Science:

ACT Research Home Page

John Anderson's ACT-R theory of cognition is a cognitive architecture aimed at computer simulating a full range of cognitive tasks.

http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/

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Annotated Bibliography Of Mind-Related Topics

An annotated bibliography of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, neurobiology, artificial life, linguistics, neural networks, connectionism, cognitive psychology, consciousness.

http://www.scaruffi.com/mind.html

Austrian Society for Cognitive Science

Sponsors seminars and a conference for cognitive science in Austria.

http://www.univie.ac.at/cognition/

Brain and Behavior, from Serendip

Interactive exhibits, forum, and links aimed at exploring the observational basis and significance of the assertion that the nervous system underlies all aspects of human behavior and experience.

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/

Celebrities in Cognitive Science

Links page to writings by and about leading thinkers in cognitive science, and critics and observers of the cognitive sciences.

http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/cogsci.html

10 Classic Cognitive Science Papers

Ten papers, originally published in the journal Cognitive Science, and judged by the editors to be classics of the field, made available for free download.

http://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/rgoldsto/cogsci/classics.html

Cognitive Science

A glossary of Cognitive Science terminology. From Dr. Michael Dawson of the University of Alberta.

http://www.bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike/Pearl_Street/Dictionary/dictionary.html

Cognitive Science Society

The premier professional organization in the field. Information on membership, conferences, and the journal Cognitive Science (including abstracts of recent and upcoming articles).

http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/

Cognitive Science’s Top 100

A ranked list of influential publications with comments on their impact.

http://www.cogsci.umn.edu/OLD/calendar/past_events/millennium/home.html

COGPRINTS: Cognitive Sciences Eprint Archive

Repository of freely available preprint and reprint papers, submitted by authors.

http://cogprints.org

CogSci World

An index of resources available on the Internet.

http://amplify.se/cogsci/

The Computer Revolution in Philosophy

An online (scanned) version of the 1978 book by Aaron Sloman.

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/crp/

Facial Expression Resources on the Web

Links to resources for research on facial expressions.

http://www.kasrl.org/facial_expression.html

Human Cognition in the Human Brain

Yehouda Harpaz' model of human cognition, along with links to associated texts, including extensive critiques of publications associated with cognitive science.

http://human-brain.org/

Indiana Archives of Cognitive Science

A portal including an introduction to the field, lists of academic programs and research opportunities, and an undergraduate journal.

http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/iacs/

Mental Models

The "mental models" theory of thinking and reasoning, as propounded by Kenneth Craik and Philip Johnson-Laird. Site created by Johnson-Laird and Ruth Byrne.

http://www.tcd.ie/Psychology/Ruth_Byrne/mental_models/

MindScience Foundation

Dedicated to funding and disseminating research on how consciousness arises in human beings.

http://www.mindscience.org/

MIT Cognet

Subscription based service from MIT Press giving access to full text coyrighted material, discussions, and news.

http://cognet.mit.edu/

The Modularity Home Page

Links to resources and online papers on modularity in cognitive sciences, neurosciences, evolutionary biology and AI.

http://gral.ip.rm.cnr.it/rcalabretta/modularity.html

Non-Cartesian Cognitive Science

Essays and links on embodied and 'situated' approaches to cognition, ranging from Artificial Life to Phenomenology, and much else.

http://www.magneticfields.org/sky/aarc/noncartesian.html

ObjectCognition.net

Good collection of links to Cognitive Science Researcher's home pages, and to relevant journals (online and paper).

http://www.objectcognition.net/

Playroom

Links to many interactive illusions, demos, games and toys related to Cognitive Science.

http://psy.uq.oz.au/CogPsych/homepage/playroom/playroom.html

Reith Lectures 2003 - The Emerging Mind

Series of five public radio lectures given by neuroscientist Vilayanur S. Ramachandran, Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego. The 2003 series of the prestigious annual BBC Reith Lectures. Lectures available as Real Audio.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/