Today’s post is some seriously OLD science. Old science and WEIRD science, coming to you courtesy of Mt. Sinai hospital in NYC, 1913. And it’s also the WEIRDEST conjunction of this: And this: That Sci has ever seen. Gerster AG, Mandlebaum FS. “XI. On the Formation of Bone in the Human Penis.” Annals of Surgery, […]
So far, it’s been about three months since Sci’s dissertation. During that time, she has: – defended her dissertation – moved to New Huge City – started a post-doc(!) – been sending out paper to beef up her little CV – been learning large numbers of new, difficult, cool techniques – been awesome – completely […]
I tried to find a video of the Emperor’s New Groove where Yzma gets turned into a cat and it’s hilarious and adorable. But all I could find were fandubs, most of which were terrible. Why the heck do people make versions of this stuff and put it out there on the internet! It’s a […]
…The return of the bride of the who are you thread? The return of the son of the who are you thread? The bride of the son of the twice removed cousin of the thread… Anyway, I saw this meme over at Drugmonkey, and again at Not Exactly Rocket Science, and decided it would be […]
Let it be known that Sci, like many a young, bright-eyed little scientist, tries to keep up on her reading. TRIES is the operative word, but every week Sci gets the Tables of Contents for all the major journals in her field (and all the major ones in her subdisciple) emailed straight to her for […]
Sci was toddling around the internet recently (as is her wont), when she came across the work of Dr. Petra. If you’re in to learning about sex, sex education, and everything else from a scientific point of view, Sci highly recommends Dr. Petra. This is a blogger who tells it like it is. (Sci also […]
OMG ZOMBIE POST!!! Let’s all pause and contemplate how awesome I look as a zombie. I DO love brains. Very much. OM NOM NOM. So Sci was thinking about what to post for Zombie Day. She thought about wondering if dogs could sniff early stage zombie infection and thus help with quarantine. She thought about […]
AND HERE IT IS! THE AWESOMENESS WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!!! BEHOLD! ZOMBIE DAY!!!! All we SciBlings want to do is eat your brains Sci loves Jonathan Coulton WAY too much. So you might ask, where did this come from? Well, the other day, Sci was talking to Pal. And we were talking about how […]