Last year (that was 2008), Sci made a resolution to read 100 books in a year. She did pretty well at the outset. But then she went and start this…blog thing. Book reading declined steeply. But I still fit in a good bit. Last year’s list is here. But this year, I knew I would […]
As humans, we know how important social interactions are. Aside from the importance of immediate family members, we also like to socialize with new people, unrelated people, and generally just people. There are several other species which are also known to be very social, and I’m not talking about bees. In mammals, the size of […]
So, today you might know that, to people of the Christian persuasion, it’s Christmas. To people of the non-Christian persuasion, it’s ALSO Christmas. Or at least, nothing is open but Chinese restaurants. Sci’s here for the food. Delish. We’ll be back on Monday, kids. A happy holidays to all!
In celebration of the holiday season, Sci went looking for something seasonal. But referring constantly to things like how many calories we eat around this time (Sci is no exception) is really a downer. So this season, Sci decided to find out what would happen if you plug the word “christmas” into pubmed. It turns […]
Sci is unfortunately unable to get her hands on the real journal article behind this week’s weird science. That’s because it isn’t out yet. But look for it soon in “Deep-Sea Research II”, which to Sci sounds a lot like an awesome sequel to an action-biography about Jacques Cousteau. I would definitely go and see […]
I feel kind of weird doing a post on homeopathy. But it drives me crazy when people talk about homeopathy as though it is the poor unfortunate soul of modern scientific medicine. So this is an “info” post. I’ve read a lot of blogs out there, and many of them attack homeopathy without explaining why […]
Sci saw this post recently at Dr. Pal’s place, and it rang some major bells in her head. So, I figure, I’ve got to cover it myself, now don’t I. Lim et al. “Zican-induced damage to mouse and human nasal tissue” PLoS ONE, 2009. So let’s start with a couple of things: 1) What is […]
For Sci, the weird science tends to come in spurts (heh heh…heh). There will be times when I am literally digging through Pubmed trying to find ANYTHING ODD AT ALL, and then there are times, like now, when people are tweeting and emailing and g-chatting and all but screaming in my ear with the weird. […]
Normally Sci wouldn’t bother with weird science until Friday (the rest of the week is reserved for ACTUAL science, you know. And terrible poetry, of course), but this is just too good. And there’s no actual paper on it. So it’s Tuesday Weird Journalistic Science…or something. So we’re going to have to be…premature. Premature Ejaculation: […]
Ah, the Holiday Season. In the US, beginning around…midnight directly following the Thanksgiving festivities, the holiday stuff comes out. Suddenly, a normal middle America city is transformed (or at least, its downtown is transformed) with Christmas trees and whatever sparkly candy canes or angels they have hanging from all of the street lamps. And into […]