The Incredible Healing Mouse

This is one of those things that isn’t really related to neuroscience, to weird science, or to any of Sci’s normal science. Really, it was just something Sci found (in various places), and thought was really awesome. Cause it is! BEHOLD! The INCREDIBLE HEALING MOUSE!!! (awwwww) For those who know about working with rodents, it […]

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Friday Weird Science: Orgiastic Loss of Consciousness

This is actually a repost. But it’s still hilarious. Sci DID have something good all lined up, but then she went out for this DINNER. And it was a REALLY good dinner, and now I’m really full and it’s late and Sci is SO FULL AND SLEEPY AND (kind of inebriated…). So, repost. And next […]

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Cheesecake-eating rats and food addiction, a commentary

As you might have noticed, Sci is really interested lately in the concept of food reward systems, in particular the issues associated with the effects of binge eating on reward systems in the brain, and the issue of “food addiction”. And Sci is not the only one who is interested. Lots of other people in […]

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In which Sci gets Inked

We all have different ways of celebrating big milestones, like getting a PhD. Some people pop open the champagne. Some people (the really, really LUCKY people) get to take a few weeks off and recover. But for those of us who can do neither, well…Sci got a tattoo! And you all want to know what […]

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