Happy New Year!!

(Source) Sci’s out happy new yearing. Like ya do. In the meantime, I wish to know. What are YOUR New Year’s Resolutions? Do you make any? Do you self-righteously NOT make any and want to tell other people why they shouldn’t? Sci always ends up making some. Last year’s involved getting my PhD. And I […]

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Bouncing Babies Betray Awareness of Others’ Beliefs

…if only I could have found synonyms for “awareness” and “adult” or “other person” that started with B…my life is eternally unfulfilled now. Today’s post on babies is dedicated to Glendon Mellow of the Flying Trilobite, who just yesterday welcomed a bouncing TriloBoy! Congratulations to Glendon!!! That’s going to be one amazingly awesome family. 🙂 […]

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Books I’ve read this year, Edition…THREE

So three years ago now, Sci made a New Year’s Resolution to read 100 books in a year. That’s a book every three days. I was actually doing very well until I started a blog in the May of that year. That kind of tanked that project, though I still managed to read over 60 […]

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Don’t like angry faces? We have oxytocin for that.

I’m sure anyone who reads this blog is by now well aware of the many roles of oxytocin: In men, women, in sex, and especially in emotionally related things like pair bonding, trust, and facial recognition related to emotional states. People who just call oxytocin the “love molecule” don’t get the HALF of it. Oxytocin […]

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The Blogsphere is alive to the sound of PODCASTS

Sci has noticed that a lot of scientists tend to listen to a lot of music or podcasts. Much as I’m sure we all KNOW that science is all glamor and cocaine and hookers and wild nights of crazy exciting science…yeah, let’s not lie. A lot of science is tedious, and a truly astonishing amount […]

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Friday Weird Science: A Festive New Way to Dye Holiday Lingerie!

After all, what is more festive than candy striped underwear, right? Well, HERE is how to create your own, entirely without the trouble of dyeing, or going out and buying the stuff. All you need is white underwear, and a LOT of these: (Source) Cilliers and de Beer. “The case of the red lingerie – […]

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Get your Holiday Scicurious Swag!

I promise it’s the only plug. Promise! See that little link on the sidebar for my cafepress store? I’ve got cool stuff there. Everything from Scicurious messenger bags to mugs to beer steins to THONGS. And of course there are lots of tshirts! It’s all Sci stuff, and it all could be YOURS! Think of […]

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