Some of you (well, very few of you) know that I keep another blog, a brain sciences video showcase vlog called Channel N. I'm really into its statistics, and figure you want to know about them too.

My Technorati ranking has grown to a dazzling 260,350 of the approximately six million blogs online. 24 blogs have linked to me, and the number of people who've "favourited" Channel N has doubled to two. (One of them is myself, though.) Here's a screenshot as proof of my ranking. Feel free to distribute it.

RSS feed subscribers are currently at 49, and according to Google Analytics 23 people actually viewed the site today. I think there's an error on Google's part, though, because they report that the average time spent on my blog is 00:01:24 but most of the lecture videos are more like 01:24:00 long. The most popular link that people click is "View my complete profile." Here's the analysis for the past month so you can see the trends for yourself. Cool, huh?

I also maintain a blog called Neurofuture, but I'm not going to talk about that since readership keeps rising despite my best efforts not to post anything.

So I noticed today that ScienceBlogs does not have a wikipedia entry! What's up with that? Ridiculous!

I felt it to be my solemn duty to start one for the world! But clearly I'm not really supposed to be creating it since I guess I sorta, kinda 'work' for Seed Media. But anyway! Please head over there and help fill it up with some exciting content! Your favorite stories, information about all the great blogs, how you met the love of your life there, etc.

I also wouldn't object if someone created an Omni Brain entry ;) (I would feel a little worse actually creating that one myself).

Here's the exciting link!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scienceblogs

Well I guess Boeing does a lot of government research so it really isn't surprising that they would be involved with some of the really stupid things the military has been involved in. Thankfully their research didn't focus on flying their planes psychically (well that we know of). From Danger Room, a Wired Blog:

Boeing researchers don't just spend their days designing killer drones and networked tanks. They also investigate unexplained powers of the mind, sometimes. Especially if those times are the late '60s.

This study, New Correlation Between a Human Subject and a Quantum Mechanical Random Number Generator, conducted in 1967, "tentatively conclude[s]" that people can basically will particular numbers to appear.

According to the Boeing-ites, there "exists a weak but significant correlation" between the experiment's "statistical processes" (that would be the generation of random numbers, "connected to four lamps and four corresponding pushbuttons") and "the experimenter who initiates the processes" ("the human subjects, asked to press the buttons... with the objective in mind of obtaining a high number of coincidences").

There seems to be countless silly studies coming from the military complex, which with a little creative keyword searching, you can find as well at the Public STINet (AKA Scientific & Technical Information Network). It's a little funny seeing these citations listed right next to totally legitimate pieces of research. Keep reading for more of the wonderfully compelling research I came across.

The Empty Life, a 1963 film from the Mental Hygiene Division of the Oklahoma State Departmeny of Health. "This man's life has lost its zest. For him, the kick has gone out of living..." Learn why people drink to excess, hang out with ten-dollar-tramps, race cops and shoot craps: the menace of boredom.

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