…who is the fairest/funniest/raises the most for charity/has the cutest child/dog/cat/hamster/is best foodie/goes to the coolest places/the most popular of ALL? Duh! ME! (Hat tip to DNLee, who introduced me to this song. I LOVE this song.) Gonzales and Hancock. “Mirror, Mirror on my Facebook Wall: Effects of Exposure to Facebook on Self-Esteem” CYBERPSYCHOLOGY, BEHAVIOR, […]
Today is my second synchro-blogging of the week! When Laelaps showed me the video that went with this paper, and explained the concept…I was HOOKED. We had to blog it. It’s too good. It’s too GROSS. Just you wait. So we HAVE blogged it, and when you’re done reading this, go over to Laelaps and […]
After however long Sci has been in the blogsphere, I think I’ve become inured to the near constant babble of breathless science reporting. Oral contraceptives CHANGE YOUR BRAIN!! You are yourself…ON HORMONES. Cell phones cause brain cancer! TIDAL WAVES of hormones. TSUNAMIS of brain activity! A veritable STORM SURGE of wave metaphors have invaded our […]
Today’s post is actually a TANDEM post. I’m sharing posting on this piece today with the brilliant and totally cool Kate Clancy of Context and Variation. So once you’ve finished here, head over THERE for her half of the take on this paper. Kate showed me this paper, and I was immediately interested by the […]
As you all might have noticed, Scientopia has a brand new Guest Blog(ge) (the “ge” makes it more official or something?). I mentioned before that Paolo of Zygoma is up first and has written some great posts already, including a really nice on on Museum Collections. But did I mention we also have FrauTech?! She’s […]
Today’s Friday Weird Science comes to us courtesy of ProfLike Substance, who passed on this truly GLORIOUS paper to Sci many weeks ago. I’ve been dying to blog it for ages, but other things (like whale penises) seemed to always come up (you see what I did there) and required immediate blogging before someone else […]
Sci’s terrible at languages. TERRIBLE. In my time, I’ve successfully mastered English, and attempted to master four other languages (five if you count a brief foray into Elvish when I was 15, but that doesn’t really count) in my time. I have failed at ALL of them. Every once in a while I would achieve […]
No it’s nothing that you all might consider major. But it IS the day after Valentine’s day!!!!! Now, many of you might celebrate Valentine’s Day, and if you do, that’s fine. Sci considers the holiday to be lame, designed to make couples feel like they need to buy something and to make people who aren’t […]
Sci recently covered a mouse paper on dieting and subsequent high fat eating in mice, and then she found THIS paper, on stress reactions in overweight humans! And I like how the two link up. So let’s take a look at this one, and then go back to the OTHER one, and see how they […]
Scientopia is proud to announce the launch of our brand new Guest Blog, where we recruit other bloggers to hang out for about two weeks at a time. The first post, by Paolo Viscardi of the Zygoma blog, is already up, and is a great tribute to Darwin Day! Go and check it out! We’ve […]