Today Sci is going to blog a paper that she has been meaning to blog for a long time. It’s one of those papers that people who do certain kinds of science snuggle with when they go to sleep at night. (Sci and this paper) But the real reason that Sci loves this paper is […]
Sci is off for the next 10 days (or so, depending on time differences and jet lag) to an exciting foreign country!! Don’t worry, I’ll tell you all where I’ve been when I get back. Unfortunately, Sci will thus not be much on the t00bs while she’s off in the back of beyond. I will […]
Robot Kermit: “Hey, listen you, how about you and me getting together and makin ‘ some ste-e-e-am heat. Huh, snuggle bunny?” Miss Piggy: “Snuggle bunny? Why, uh…” Robot Kermit: “Yeah. Look, let me take you away from all this. Aaah, a marriage made in heaven. A frog and a pig. We can have bouncing baby […]
I was very pleased to run across this paper a few weeks ago. I answer a LOT of questions about psychiatric drugs (on blog and IRL), and one of the most frequent ones is “DO antidepressants hurt sexual activity?” and “HOW?” As for whether they DO, well, yes. The most popular class of antidepressants, the […]
Two weeks just flies by, doesn’t it. And now we have a new Guest Blogge(r)! For the next two weeks we will be hosting Andrew Rushby, of the II-I- blog. He’s got a big thing for exoplanets, and his blog is super informative! Make sure to keep an eye out for his stuff at the […]
Krystal D’Costa of the fabulous Anthropology In Practice blog and I were chatting the other day. We got on the subject of being geeky, and I related an anecdote of my own geekdom. She wanted to look at it from an anthropological perspective, and so I’ve posted my recounting of it and my thoughts on […]
Sci woke up yesterday morning to some truly exciting news!!! I WON the 2011 Top Quark Prize for Science Writing from 3 Quarks Daily! I am so excited!!! I can’t use enough exclamation points!!!!! !!!!!!! No really. I’m so thrilled to have made it to the finals and sufficiently pleased the judges. 🙂 The post […]
Sci loves Portal. I think it’s a magnificently clever game, and Portal 2 is the in the same vein. I love the songs, I love the humor, and I love the concept (puzzle solving with a giant gun! That makes portals!), and I DESPERATELY want to play. I can’t. Sci, not unlike many people on […]
Some of you are aware that I have a really great tattoo. I love it. It’s interesting, it’s personal, it’s artistic. In fact, it’s SO interesting that I get comments on it every day. On any given day when it’s exposed, I will get an average of four (low end 1, high end 20) people […]
Sci got the fodder for this week’s Friday Weird Science via Anne Jefferson of the Highly Allocthonous blog. Apparently Anne recently suffered a doozy of an episode of…pine nut mouth. What, you’ve never heard of it? Neither had I until this came along last week. But it’s a real phenomenon, and apparently a really disgusting […]