Sci is at SciAm Blogs today, talking about a study which looks at the contagiousness of itch. When you see someone scratch, do you get itchy? And what’s happening? And can you make it through the ENTIRE post…without getting itchy? Head over and check it out!
Today’s Sunday Funny is funny mostly because of the title of the paper. It’s a perfectly serious paper about physics, but it’s got Sausages, and Kinks. And Jeans. Phys Rev Lett. 2011 May 13;106(19):191103. Epub 2011 May 13. Sausage and kink oscillations in astrophysical disk configurations. Griv E. Source Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of […]
I’m going to start with an upfront declaration. This paper is awesome for three major reasons: 1. It is interesting science. 2. It utilizes Dungeons and Dragons. 3. The first author is in middle school. Yes. That last bit is correct. He’s 14, and he just might be better published than you (he is, perhaps, […]
Some of us like to think that we think better under pressure. Maybe under the pressure of a deadline, but when it comes to severe stress and times of crisis, well, cognitive performance tends to crumble. We know that part of the cause of this is because of increases in dopamine released into the prefrontal […]
Sci has scheduled a talk! A talk at a bar!! It should be fun, and I hear I at least get one beer free. If you’d like to make sure I get more than that, however, you should come hear Sci give a talk at National Mechanics in Philadelphia, as part of Science on Tap! […]
Sci is at SciAm Blogs today, talking about the recent backlash against neuro-hype (which I am ALL in support of, obviously), highlighting the excellent work of Neuroskeptic and The Neurocritic, and asking…does neuroscience need a Newton? I personally think the question, especially now, is pointless. Newtons aren’t the way science works anymore, and with the […]