Today’s post is a guest post coming at you from the fantastic Vivienne Raper, a freelance journalist who also blogs at the blog Outdoor Science! This is also why all the spellings of things appear to have extraneous “u”s. Imagine owning a swimsuit that makes you look like a tropical fish, shimmering and changing colour […]
Dieting doesn’t work. No really, it doesn’t. Much as people like to talk about how the things they are sticking to are “lifestyle changes”, etc, a lot of them (but not all) are still diets, still ways of restricting your eating, and over 80{9f43b4361d9a125bc126dd2a2d1949be02545ec69880430bc4fed2272fd72da3} of them will fail. By fail, scientists mean that you will […]
Pucker up! (Source) Sci was very excited to get a copy of Sheril’s first solo book effort, “The Science of Kissing: What our lips are telling us”. I’ve always enjoyed Sheril’s writing and her fun take on life in general, and so I was excited to get the book. But I admit I was also […]
This one comes courtesy of NCBI ROFL, who presented the abstract last week. Can’t beat their fantastic penis-shaped light fixture, either. I’d like to begin today’s Friday Weird Science with a brief story about SciMom. SciMom is a brilliant mom. She’s encouraging and supportive and smart, and also really REALLY funny. Mostly because she’s prone […]
So yesterday I wrote a post where I put on my “ranty pants”, and mentioned that I would LOVE to have a pair of them that actually existed. And a friend of mine read the post…and… AREN’T THEY AWESOME!!! You know you want a pair. The cafepress shop is here. Me, I’m getting like 10 […]
@noahwg linked an article (or a blog post? It seems more like a blog post) in the NY Times today, on oral contraceptives and weight gain. The post covers a review of various clinical trials (there are only three listed, but that’s because they are using the most stringent measures of three treatment trials per […]