It’s kind of sad to me how slowly science can move from the laboratory to the classroom (perhaps less critically important than moving from the lab to the bedside, but still pretty critical). I’d like to think with the popularity of the internet and the spread of science communication direct to your screens (hello!), we’ll […]
…or is it something else? Sci is at SciAm blogs today taking on a paper that got some press last week, claiming a relationship between immune function, cortisol levels, testosterone, and attractiveness in men. Head over there to find out what I think of it.
You know, I tried to think up a clever title for this one, but I really think the straight talking just says it all. This really IS about applying pot (or at least, the active ingredient in pot) to bull semen. Ah, science. Shahar and Bino. “In vitro effects of delta-9-tetrahgdrocannabinol (THC) on bull sperm” […]
…but it’s not quite simple. 🙂 I’m at Scientific American blogs today discussing a recent paper recording mouse songs, and using them to find kinship patterns among mice. You can even listen to the mice sing to the their ladies! CUTE! Head over and check it out.
It’s been a while since I kept my lovely readers (all two of you! Hi Dad!) up to date on what’s happening on our guest blog (blogge?). But if you haven’t been reading along, please do! We just finished up an really interesting run with 27 and a PhD, who had some really interesting and […]
Sci is at SciAm blogs today, talking about using blood levels of BDNF to predict whether or not patients will respond to antidepressants. It’s a very preliminary study, but I think in the long run it could be very clinically useful. Head over and check it out.
Today’s word of the week is transcription, in the biological sense. Not the process of converting speech into a written document (though I know a lot of science writers who spend a lot of time doing that, so I suppose it could count as part of the biological definition), but the part of the central […]
This paper is one of those papers that gives official science manuscript writing a bad name. It’s not that the paper is badly written, nor is it that the science is bad (in fact it’s pretty cool). No, it’s the JARGON. “…posterior surface of the posterior telopod, which is actively moved over a field of […]
Sci doesn’t celebrate Valentine’s Day much. Rather, I celebrate the day POST-Valentine’s when all the candy becomes a delicious 50-75{9f43b4361d9a125bc126dd2a2d1949be02545ec69880430bc4fed2272fd72da3} off. But this has become harder since I moved to a large city. In the suburbs, buying cheap candy was a breeze. Huge grocery stores were overstocked with the stuff and desperate to move merchandise. […]
I got a reader question in my inbox recently which caused me to go on an instant pubmed hunt: is there a link between hypotension and major depressive disorder, and if so, does increasing blood pressure help? And the more I dug, the more I realized that the answer is both very complicated…and pretty unknown. […]