- The New York Times has an interesting article about the latest international math/science testing. American kids actually fared pretty well, behind just a few other countries. More focused testing on individual states puts Massachusetts kids behind only Taiwan and Singapore.
- Encephalon is up at Living the Scientific Life
- Skills for Healthy Living blog reports that Pain intensity does not correlate with life satisfaction in people with long-term pain
- And, just in time for your office holiday party, BPS Research Digest reports on How to name-drop
- Inspired by a typo on CogDaily, CogLangLab muses on whether sloppy grammar=sloppy thinking
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