Some rules to get us started:
We have great hopes for "Action Potential". But it's also an experiment, which may fail. If you've ever participated in an online discussion forum you have probably seen that they can be ruined by "spam" and "trolls". Here are our ground rules (these may change with time):
1. Anything neuroscience, or affecting neuroscience, is fair game. But we will not discuss football leagues, supreme court nominees, or the Tibet question. Grossly off-topic comments will be deleted.
2. We want to strongly encourage you to use your real name, and to provide your email address when commenting. Your name, but not your email address, will appear online with your post. It is possible to comment using an alias, BUT...
3. We will not tolerate any anonymous criticism, be it of us or others, papers in NN or elsewhere. Critical comments are very welcome, but you must sign with your real name and email address. There's a good chance we'll double-check with you via email before putting your strongly critical comment live online. Once more, participants' email addresses remain confidential; you do not need to fear a spam attack when commenting on "Action Potential".
Once again - welcome!!
Comments
hello, okay, i'm a musician, and i left my band's website in the URL field, BUT i was a neuroscience major in college, and am continually intrigued by neuroscience. most of my friends generally aren't interested in my ramblings on the topic, b/c most people are intimiated by it. I've been pondering my own blog, but i'm really very excited about this one popping up.
here's an event coming up at NYU most of you probably already know about with Oliver Sacks and many other neuroscience folks about "copying". An interesting, albeit unusual topic, oliver sacks talks about tourette's patients and their urge to imitate people, and it expands into different facets like fashion, memes, and mimicry, check it out:
http://www.nyu.edu/fas/institute/nyih/public/upcoming.html#DoingLikewise
personally, i'm very interested in making many of the themes of neuroscience and psychology more accessible to the public. presently it seems reserved only to university types that speak in neurojargon, and extreme specificity possibly losing sight of the gestalt of human experience. I feel we're still in the dark ages about our behavior and consiousness, and discoveries in neuroscience and psychology are going elucidate so much about how we relate to each other and ourselves in both a personal and global level. but i digress. can't wait to see this unfold. good luck!
Posted by: Gabriel Berezin | November 10, 2005 03:44 PM
Save from a spam editors can only. I agree with your rules.
Posted by: Bruce Muravkin | December 8, 2005 12:52 PM
nice site..buts whats all this abt??..
Posted by: naz | December 13, 2005 03:48 PM