Imaging a Superior Mnemonist

In neuroscience, we spend most of our time trying to understand the function of the “normal” brain — whatever that means — hence, we are most interested in the average. Under most occasions when scientists take an interest in the abnormal neurology, it is usually someone with who has something wrong with them — has […]

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Book Review: Unscientific America

Scicurious is always thrilled to receive books in the mail, and this one was rather eagerly awaited. Given the frequent controversy that Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum routinely incite on their blog, The Intersection, the book was bound to be controversial at the very least. And indeed, before Sci had even gotten her little paws […]

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The Frozen North

So Sci opened her Google Reader, and once she got over the seizures induced by realizing she had OVER 600 UNREAD POSTS, got down to business. Here are some of the things you may have missed while Sci was away in the Frozen North: Scientia Pro Publica is out, and Neurotopia makes an appearance with […]

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In Which Sci is Stared At

You may have seen around SB the yearly meme of “who are you, and why are you looking at me”. Sci did not get to play last year, but this year…she’s rather curious. Srsly. So, as seen over at Ed’s and Drugmonkey: Identify yourself in the comments. Even if you’ve never commented before, speak up. […]

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For the Geeks out there

So I’m sure you all know that last week, Jodi and Jason, two awesome geeks, got engaged. And when I heard this cute story of geeks in love, I was reminded forcefully of this: Don’t you all wish you were geeks in love? Congrats to Jodi and Jason! More is to come, I’ve been away […]

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‘Tis the 4th

w00t I know not all my readers are from the US (I know I’ve got a couple in the UK, some in Canada, and some in New Zealand. What up, guys?) but ’round these digs, the 4th of July is usually celebrated as Independence Day, the day a bunch of people who didn’t like their […]

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Has you any Russian Brides?

Ok, there’s a big furor going on around Scienceblogs over some truly disgusting ads in the side bars for thing like Thai women and Russian brides and chelation therapy. Sci would like to take this opportunity to state that Neurotopia in no way approves of these ads. However, I haven’t really seen them popping up […]

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