Our 2012 Top Ten.

The top ten* NeuroCooking posts of 2012:

1. Best. Coffee. Ever.
2. Mid-June Dog-Blogging! (or, "SG-31R")
3. "AF Nikkor 35mm f/2D" part II (or, "Do you want fries with that?")
4. "h" vs. "H" (and the Mountain Goats, Down Under)
5. e.g., "Rule number eight: exploit superstitious thinking"
6. Proofreading Is Important, Part XHYXHYXHYX
7. Applied what?
8. "If new-laid eggs wore wooden legs I should not laugh or cry."
9. "Finally, SUPEREGO-related neural activity was localized to lateral prefrontal and parietal cortex."
10. Seeing Is Believing.

Bucky, from "Mid-June Dog-Blogging! (or, 'SG-31R')," June 14.

Cherry tree, from "'AF Nikkor 35mm f/2D' part II (or, 'Do you want fries with that?')," March 25.

The Mountain Goats, from "'h' vs. 'H' (and the Mountain Goats, Down Under)," May 16.

Nope it ain't, from "Applied what?" September 27.

Warning, from "Seeing Is Believing," May 18.

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*As ranked by number of pageviews.

Mid-December Dog-Blogging!

Bucky, coming through!

No kidding.

We like much of what the folks at the Flying Dog Brewery come up with, but we cannot recommend their Double Dog "Double Pale Ale," because 11.5 % alcohol by volume is just too high for us.

Lensbaby (2.0) Loves Bucky (cont'd).

(Bucky, after the rain; click image for full-screen view.)

Oh yeah.

Late-autumn backyard flower-blogging.

Fall-blooming camellia (click image for full-screen view).

Are you a methodologist or an ASS?

In the article "Primary study authors of significant studies are more likely to believe that a strong association exists in a heterogeneous meta-analysis compared with methodologists" in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Orestis A. Panagiotou and John P.A. Ioannidis report that "authors of significant studies" (a group indicated by the acronym "ASS" in the paper's Tables; for example Table 2 has a column labeled "ASS vs. methodologists") are "influenced by their own investment in the field" and so are "more likely to believe that a strong association exists."

Lensbaby (2.0) Loves Bucky!

I don't use it much, but when I do, I enjoy my Lensbaby (2.0).

In fact, I admit that, sometimes, playing with the Scheimpflug principle can be irresistible.

I enjoy my Lensbaby, and my Lensbaby loves Bucky:

(click image for full-screen view)

Another succinct alternative to another dualism.

If you liked our succinct alternatives to Cartesian dualism, then you might like this sentence – the text of a slide –  from Prof. Luiz Pessoa's compelling presentation at today's stimulating Maryland Neuroimaging Retreat, hosted by the University of Maryland School of Medicine:

"There are no cognitive or emotional brain regions, per se."

Proofreading is important, part 0.695

Cannondale claims to make a bicycle with a frame weighing 0.695 grams, which is about the weight of one grain of (uncooked) rice:

(screenshot from cannondale.com)

Is abuse of the null hypothesis a felony or a misdemeanor?

Just one sentence from "Activity Metabolism Measurements Made Easy in Metabolic Phenotyping" by Dr. J.R.B. Lighton:

"Thus the null hypothesis is not only falsified, it is smashed into smithereens that daintily and prettily drift down to the floor like dandelion seeds, except that they sparkle in the moonlight."

h/t: Dr. M.R. Laughlin