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Monday, April 11, 2011

Colin Firth Published a Biology Paper!!!

2011 is a fruitful year for Colin Firth. Not only did he win the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Best Picture a few months ago, he also managed to publish a paper on Current Biology!!! It's a pretty cool journal with its impact factor>10!

Check this out:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VRT-52JV2HC-2&_user=492137&_coverDate=04%2F07%2F2011&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000022719&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=492137&md5=6da78ce77f421fd8c497dae4af40bf97&searchtype=a

It's about the correlation between political orientation and brain structure.

Nowadays the biological basis of human behavior has become an extremely interesting and hot field. A few weeks ago another group from China published a paper on Nature about the genetics basis of Gayness:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature09822.html

Extremely entertaining and cool!