This is somewhat of a followup post. What’s really cool about this paper (to Sci, anyway), is that it brings two different areas that she’s been interested in into one cool glob of SCIENCE. And it helps to explain many of the questions that Sci got in response to two of the papers she has […]
Sci happened to be Pubmedding the word “vomit”* today when she ran across this article. It’s one of those articles that is weird because it’s. So. Obvious. Mallett et al. “Do We Learn from Our Mistakes? An Examination of the Impact of Negative Alcohol-Related Consequences on College Students’ Drinking Patterns and Perceptions” J Stud Alcohol. […]
Sci recently got asked to be a book reviewer for Oxford University Press again! She is thrilled about this. Having recently moved to Huge New City (and consequently to Very Small New Apartment) she ended up having to…*gulp*…get rid of some books. It was a painful process, but she firmly believes her books are going […]
Sci was a little startled recently when she saw “the latest study” on ADHD splashed across the frontpage of Yahoo. You can see it here on Reuters. PESTICIDES TIED TO ADHD. (Run for the hills, indeed. Or maybe run AWAY from the hills, since they might have pesticides) However, the story broke a good TWO […]
Can Sci use the word “Dildo” for the main feed of Scienceblogs? Oh well, guess we will find out! Sorry in advance, OverL0rdz! Anyway, if you were on the internets at ALL over the past few days, you will have seen three things: 1) A guy showed his coworker a paper on bat fellatio and […]
Sci wishes she could begin this post with something clever. But she has a cold. Suffice it to say that this paper is cool and interesting. And also, as Sci has a cold, I expect all of you to read this post out loud to yourselves in suitably stuffy, gluey Sci-voices. (*sniff*) Gur et al. […]
Palmer and Schloss. “An ecological valence theory of human color preference” PNAS, 2010. Sci will admit that she didn’t really know all that much about color preference theory until she read this paper. And that until she read this paper…she thought a lot of it was silly. Also, she doesn’t have a favorite color. That […]
Sci watched the new Sherlock Holmes movie the other night. It’s cute, and one of the things that she really enjoyed was watching Sherlock Holmes use his amazing power of deduction: Sherlock Holmes: As to where I am, I was, admittedly, lost for a moment, between Charing Cross and Holborn, but I was saved by […]
Sci rather wishes this study were done in mice, if only so she could write “the city mouse and the country mouse” in her title. But it was done in humans, which was really probably a good thing. This post has some background. Sci was sitting around with her lab one day, shootin’ the breeze […]
Sci has been wanting to read “The Poisoner’s Handbook” by Deborah Blum for an AGE now, and she’s now even more thrilled that she can read her every day! Please welcome Deborah Blum to Scienceblogs, where she will be blogging at Speakeasy Science. The blog already has some crazy awesome stories of poisoning by different […]