Today’s Friday Weird Science comes to you courtesy of the perspicacious Ivan Oransky, who was kind enough to send me this paper. And this paper is great. It’s proof that anything is worth measuring if you do it in an fMRI. Like peeing! Have you ever wondered what happens to your brain when you pee? […]
Things I should have been doing today: 1. Working on a paper 2. Running an experiment 3. Wrangling students 4. Planning more experiments 5. Reading some lit 6. Preparing a talk 7. Other Basic daily list, and much less than I often deal with (example, no teaching at the moment and the exam doesn’t have […]
Sci is at SciAm blogs today, talking about a study showing that Parkinson’s is more than dopamine, and that serotonin may have something to do with it. It’s an interesting study with some widespread implications that cover more than Parkinson’s. Head over and check it out.
This story broke Wednesday, so I’m very late. But this is just such an awesome story that I can’t leave it alone. And not ALL of the puns and jokes have been used up yet!!! There’s still a bit left for me! So here it goes!! HEADLINE TURTLES CAUGHT HUMPING OTHER TURTLES. SCIENTISTS SHOCKED!!! “We […]
We all know what blogging started off as. Livejournals, devoted to people talking, with a certain amount of self-satisfaction, about themselves, what they had for breakfast, and how not getting a pony when they were 8 caused them to become a vegan. Self-blogging continues, and now there’s also Facebook, where you can take lots of […]
Sci is at SciAm blogs today, looking at a study which examined the preference for musical complexity in women across the menstrual cycle. Do you prefer more complex melodies at that time of the month? Are you looking to be impressed by prospective males? Head over and find out!
…or rather, getting them SLOOOOW. Two weeks ago I covered a study on cannabis coming for mouse sperm. But that’s mice, not humans, and most of it was in a dish. So what does it mean for PEOPLE? After all, mice don’t spend most of their time mating on weed, while humans…well we DO spend […]
Yesterday Hilda Baston (of the Statistically funny blog which I only just discovered!) posted to the SciAm Guest Blog, with a thoughtful and useful critique of my critique (I know, so meta!) of the recent exercise and depression study. And she’s got some great points. But you know what? I’ve got great points, too. 🙂 […]
Last week, when I wrote a post about science outreach and some of the issues facing the academic community, I wasn’t expecting quite so much of an explosion. I was hoping for some good discussion, and boy did I get it, in the form of comments and blog posts and tweets (heck, SONYC even did […]
That’s a quote from one of the tweets about this study this morning, and seems to sum it up pretty well. That latest study which blasted through the media, saying that exercise doesn’t help depression? I don’t buy it, and I’ll tell you why. Head over to The Scicurious Brain to find out.