NOTE: Sci is usually at SciAm Blogs on Monday, but they’re doing some updates to the site, and I thought I would stay over here for today, just in case. I have an officemate (and I know they’re reading, everyone say hi to my awesome officemate!) who likes to listen to pop music in the […]
I can’t help it, I read the abstract of this and just… But fear not, horny teenagers everywhere! You now have a scientific excuse for wanting to get it on in the hot days of summer. And the cold nights of winter. For all the horniness during spring and fall? Sorry, you’re on your own. […]
(Probably I could have saved this for Friday Weird Science, but I can’t help myself, it’s getting a lot of press, and hey…who doesn’t want two Fridays in a week? Happy Wednesday!) We all know how it goes. They stood, framed by stormclouds, together on the windswept cliff. The stranger held Rosamund in an iron […]
Sci is at Sci Am Blogs today, talking about a new paper which mapped the connectome, the series of connections between neurons, for the posterior section of a C. elegans male. And what’s in the posterior section? Well it’s all about mating, of course! Head over and check it out.
Preliminary note: When I look at some of these papers, I start out amused. Then I gradually get more and more annoyed. Who the HECK let this one past any kind of preliminary review?! And how come THIS got published when my perfectly decent study that actually addresses a hypothesis that makes rational sense came […]
Imagine for a minute. You’re in a coffeeshop, or a bar, or at a swanky cocktail party (whichever you prefer). There are people around, chatting nearby. But you’re speaking to the person directly across from you. Somehow, you can pick their voice out of the chatter and attend to what they are saying, even though […]