Today we continue ONWARD with the series on the Cranial Nerves. But we’re doing something a little different. Because last time we covered the Oculomotor Nerve, which innervates FOUR of the SIX muscles which control the eye, today we’re going to round out the eye (heh, round, eye, heh) and do the other TWO. But […]
Check out Sci’s new duds! That’s my new “Trilobite Boy Fan” t shirt from Glendon Mellow’s collection. He’s the guy who designed my WONDERFUL tattoo, which I love every bit as much as the day I got it. As for this shirt, I love the cartoony little trilobite!!! He’s so cute! I will be wearing […]
Ever since doing a couple of pieces of cell phones and things like sperm, I’ve become curious about what other studies have been done on the effects of cell phone use and keeping a small, highly addictive electronic object on your person (even though, sometimes, I end up very wrong). Not surprisingly, there’s a large […]
So I posted something the other day on bees and cell phones. The science in the paper itself wasn’t convincing to me, but the other references they pulled out in the discussion made me pull an about face. I thought, hey, maybe the electromagnetic field potentials from the cell phones ARE contributing to colony collapse […]
IMPORTANT NOTE: Sci was too credulous when she wrote this post. I have since seen the error, written a correction, and the result is up here. PLEASE GO THERE for the real story on bees and cell phones. Thanks, y’all! – a very ashamed Scicurious Sci has been really interested in the latest literature on […]
In the last few posts we’ve covered the first two cranial nerves, the Olfactory and the Optic nerves (remember our mnemonic: Oh, Oh, Oh, To Touch And Feel Virginia’s Gucci Vest, Ah Heaven). Both of these cranial nerves carry sensory information IN to the brain for processing, and don’t really control motion. For nerves like […]
It all started with an innocent Tweet. Jennifer Ouellette (of the very fine Cocktail Party Physics blog and The Calculus Diaries fame), tweeted a link to this, a blog doing the history of electricity via inventions. The link was for the following device: That, my friends, is an electrical device designed to prevent horses from […]
Go and check me out. I’m writing about the relatively new phenomenon of the migraine postdrome, something which I actually suffer from and which is, so far, really understudied. Go read!
Last time we talked about the very basic anatomy of the eye. It was a lot of material. It’s too much. For you, I will sum up. Light and images come through the cornea and hit the lens. The lens flips the image backward. The light continues to the back of the eye, often to […]
When @Artologica mentioned on Twitter that she’d put a new “coffee brain” picture on her Etsy, well of COURSE I had to look at it. I mean, DUH. And of course then I had to buy one. 🙂 Mine is is a nice coralish color for the background, and I like how the coffee rings […]