Cocaine, and other drugs of abuse, are difficult things to predict. We know to some extent what their initial effects on the brain are, how they act, and some of the things that we can do. But what we don’t know, is who will become addicted to them. It is estimated right now that 15{9f43b4361d9a125bc126dd2a2d1949be02545ec69880430bc4fed2272fd72da3} […]
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States for both men and women, but in women in particular the disease often goes undetected. Finding ways to detect symptoms of heart disease in women can help us detect signs and risk factors early and help prevent deaths and increase the quality and […]
[Alice:] ‘How would you like to live in Looking-glass House, Kitty? I wonder if they’d give you milk in there? Perhaps Looking-glass milk isn’t good to drink—’ -Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll. When I was looking through the Abstracts for this year’s Experimental Biology meeting, I stopped immediately […]
I’m here in DC and ready to get the WILD RUMPUS STARTED. I know I’ve been letting you all know I’m blogging Experimental Biology (EB 2011, #eb2011 for those following along on Twitter), but probably some of you don’t know what that is. It’s a BIG conference of about 13,000 scientists from around the world […]
Of COURSE this awesome paper would blow up the internets on a Monday, and of course, as you know, Sci is never funny on Mondays. She is only funny on Fridays. Should you ever find Sci funny on any other day of the week, you are delusional. But now I have the paper, and I’d […]
People react to stress in different ways. Some people seem to thrive under a constant deluge of deadlines, and galvanize to action in the face of life stress. In others, stress can be a trigger for psychiatric disorders such as depression, leaving them feeling helpless and causing difficulties in their everyday lives. But each person […]
In just a few days, Sci heads off to the lands beyond, to Washington, DC, for Experimental Biology 2011. I’m very excited to be sharing my own science there, as well as being able to BLOG THE MEETING! I will try to tweet some cool abstracts as well, but as I do not yet own […]
Everyone seems to know that smoking is bad for you. If lung cancer doesn’t scare the crap out of you, emphysema certainly will. And most people now know that it would be better for their health if they quit. Unfortunately, quitting is EXTREMELY hard to do. Nicotine is an incredibly addictive drug, and it, and […]
By now you may have heard of the latest tactic of the animal rights group “Negotiation Is Over”. The militant animal rights group has decided to get them while they’re young. Not to recruit while people are young, mind you, to THREATEN. To threaten college students who are interested in science careers and doing animal […]
For today’s Dose of Friday Weird Science, I thought I could do something April Fools’y, but I’ve always thought that day was really pretty dumb. Instead, I have something MUCH BETTER. TODAY, Sci presents to you Brian Switek, of the Laelaps Blog over at Wired (Brian is also the writer of the Smithsonian’s Dinosaur Tracking)! […]