A great new edition of this twice-a-month collection of best neuroscience and psychology blog posts. Enjoy!

Encephalon #48: The Usual Suspects, hosted by Neuroanthropology.

Quck heads up: Two excellent editions of these ongoing blog carnivals.

- Encephalon 46th Edition: selection of neuroscience and psychology blog. posts

- Grand Rounds 36th Edition: all things medical and healthy. 

How many of the people behind the blogs you read, have you actually met in person? I hadn’t met a single one before yesterday.

Last night Alvaro and I were invited by Bora at A blog around the clock for a blogger get-together at Jupiter in Berkeley . Bora who is a part of the Scienceblog umbrella had gathered an interesting group of people, mainly bloggers with diverse backgrounds such as life science, law, anthropology – you name it.

Remembering names is a huge brain exercise for me, since I tend to forget especially names I haven’t heard before. I have tried to pick up some tricks for remembering names from Merlin Mann at 43folders. Let’s see who I can remember from the event:

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