Man our Guest Blog stints go by quick! It’s now time for new peeps on the Guest Blog, and this time we have Inktopia and Suburban Stone Age! Inktopia is a bit of a departure for us, studying American Lit after the Civil War, but we could also use some smart and funny commentary on […]
Or at least, PARTIALLY in your head. Not all. 🙂 I’m over at SciAm today talking about the role of the brain in muscle fatigue. Check it out!
Two things: 1) Sorry for the recent Scientopia outages! There are some technical problems with a n00b like myself does not understand. But we’re back now! I posted my Friday Weird Science over at Scientific American, where you can read about what happens if you eat too many carrots (really!). 2) Due to recent events […]
And I’m taking on the HFCS issue again. Does it really cause you to gain more weight? If it does…WHY? You can see my previous post on the topic here, and my current one here. Check ’em out!
Hermitage has done it again, and by “it”, I mean her fantastic carnival about women in academia, now with 100{9f43b4361d9a125bc126dd2a2d1949be02545ec69880430bc4fed2272fd72da3} fewer babies! Many women in academia find that “women in academia” seminars and sessions end up dominated by questions of family balance, and while that’s obviously extremely important, there are lots of questions out there […]
You know how all those ladies’ magazines are telling you how to have mind-blowing orgasms using the same techniques they’ve been touting for years, usually involving cowgirl and/or trying to revamp missionary as a totally “hot” position (not saying it’s NOT, obviously, just it’s reputation and all). Well…if you read a lot of magazines on […]
Today was a lovely day. The weather was perfect, a good day in lab, a good run, a delicious veggie burger, a good beer. Life was pretty much perfect as I sat down in a mood to blog. …and then I read this paper. And it was like this: (You know, if only they could […]
Sci’s got a new post up at Scientific American on City Living and Mental Health: Is the city driving you crazy? My answer? Well, let’s not get too excited. Head over to SciAm and check it out!.
Sci will be honest: I hate Brazil nuts. I have no idea why anyone eats them, they always taste all sour and gritty and WEIRD. The taste just kind of lingers in your teeth. But what if it didn’t just linger in your teeth? What if it lingered in your…semen? Ah, Sci, you say. You’re […]
A few days ago I talked a little bit about the interactions between stress and neurogenesis, and the way that this might impact symptoms of depression. But it turns out that there’s even more to the way stress affects the body than impacting neurogenesis, and the long term effects could in turn affect the way […]