Since I posted a while ago on “why I am a scientist“, I’ve been thinking of what makes a scientist. This has been partially inspired by a post that Laelaps wrote a while ago, on whether to consider himself a scientist, and also brought to the front of Sci’s head by a post over at […]
First, a reminder to everyone to please take the condom breakage survey! Click Here to take survey. I will try to post results at the end of the week. Second, the latest edition of Giant’s Shoulders is out over at the Evilutionary Biologist. And we’re in it, for the post on Death that proved I […]
Sorry guys, my “nonprofessional” subscription to SurveyMonkey was apparently not enough for the power of the hordes. 🙂 And I’m totally thrilled that so many people want to take the survey!!! So Dave Munger of Cognitive Daily has been gracious enough to host my survey on his professional-type SurveyMonkey. Please do try again if it […]
This is post 5 in my ongoing, now-approaching-behemoth-size series of posts on depression. I’ve got other posts available on the etiology of depression, the current pharmacotherapies, studying depression in the lab, and the serotonin theory of depression, which of course you can read and refer to if you’re curious. This post will be on what […]
Coturnix pointed out that many people may feel too shy to just put their condom breakage experiences in the comments, but Sci is extremely curious to find out why condoms in general break in the population. So she made a SURVEY!* Please do take it, and I’ll graph up the results in a few days. […]
First of all, I hope everyone had a fantastic Pi day! Everyone should have eaten pie together at 1:59pm (or am, depending on preference). Mine was pi-tastic. There’s a new blog afoot at Scienceblogs! And this one, involves LIQUID HOT MAGMA! Sadly, Erik does not look like Dr. Evil. But he’s pretty cool nonetheless. So […]
This is actually a Friday Weird Science repost from the old blog. I’ve had a few requests to do something on condom breakage, though, in the words of Dr. Pal “I think a lot of the time when “the condom broke” they really mean it was in the dresser drawer.” It’s true, I’ve never actually […]
Dr. Philips was of the firm opinion that there were two kinds of death. The first was the kind where respiration ceased. Then, a person was dead. But they weren’t ALL dead. Just MOSTLY dead.
*drumroll* And the winner is…. me. Yup! Scicurious will be the guest editor of Open Lab 2009! I’m super thrilled to be involved, and it’s a big honor to be asked to do something like this, especially because it means I’ll be buried typing-fingers deep in the best science blogging to be found! For those […]
The stupidity of science is constructive, productive stupidity. The kind you get every day in grad school…perhaps not.