Bloggers got it, where’s the press on this hefty discovery about weighty thinking?

The Tracker noticed this morning that high on the NYTimes’s most-trafficked blog list is a post by Ed Yong, Brit science writer, on an amazing and slightly discomfiting discovery by Dutch researchers that indicates yet again that the emotion-buffeted human brain is weird. This is already circulating madly, so needs no boost from me, it appears.  But if it hasn’t reached you already, take a look at his entry at Not Exactly Rocket Science. It gives me one bit of solace – perhaps by using a somewhat dated and decidedly heavy Toshiba laptop with the full screen, I am thereby behaving as a more serious fellow than if I were to have invested in one of those flyweight notebooks or superthin Macs.

    Plus, one wonders – remember back in the day at university when, before on line teaching aids including text books lightened the load, serious students lugged huge book bags around with truly weighty and cerebral tomes jammed into them, intimidating those of us bithely skipping about with just one or two books stacked on a clipboard? Maybe it was the lugging, not the things lugged, that made them say things that seemed so, you know, heavy.

    One salutes also the courtesy with which Yong acknowledges, after thinking he was first out of the gate, that he was blogally scooped  by Vaughan Bell at a site called Mind Hacks.  But Yong did it funnier.

-CP