Over at SciAm Blogs today, I’m hosting this month’s Scicurious Guest Writer, Phil Corlett! Phil is an Assistant Professor at Yale, and is talking about the potential interaction between our sense of “self”, the immune system’s sense of “self”, and how it might relate to psychosis. Head over and check it out!
Sci is over at SciAm Blogs today, talking about my other session for Science online 2013! On Saturday afternoon, we’ll be talking about Identity, and the way that different identities can affect our writing and how we approach social media. And the session is going to be live videoed in room 3!! It promises to […]
Echidnas, aka Spiny Ant Eaters, are among the species that, until now, I usually forgot existed. When it comes to monotremes, the platypus is the most charismatic (or at least, definitely the oddest looking) of the bunch. And echidnas, well, they just look like…kind of a cross between a hedgehog and an anteater. Kind of […]
I’m so honored this year to be leading TWO discussions at Science Online!! The first up will be Dr. Zen and I, talking about blogging for the long haul. How do you keep it going, build your “brand”, and avoid the ever-looming fear of burnout? Let’s talk about strategies and where it all might be […]
If you’re reading this sentence, chances are you’re reading it silently (if you’re reading it out loud, hey, that’s cool too). Your lips aren’t moving, you’re not making any sound that other people can hear. But are you making “sound” in your head? Many people who read silently do so by imagining a voice speaking […]
…and not just their eyes, their wings! Sci is at SciAm Blogs today, talking about a recent study which showed how dragonflies make the lightning fast adjustment to their wings that allow them to catch prey. That, and a lot of other interesting facts about dragonflies, can be found over at the Scicurious Brain! Head […]
Ah, barnacles. You wouldn’t really think that something with the reputation of…well, of being a barnacle, would really have an exciting sex life. I mean, they’re barnacles. They are the very definition of something that is stuck in the mud. They hatch, they head to the open ocean for a few glorious weeks as whale-food, […]
As a distance runner, I see a lot of nutritional advice. As we get more serious about running, more serious about decreasing our times, increasing our distance, and other measures of “performance”, we start haunting forums and websites, places that refer to food as “fuel”. You hear a lot about “pre-race fuel”, “post-race fuel”, “post-workout […]
What the difference between someone aging happily, and someone with late-onset depression? Does it have to do with regret? Missed opportunities? The authors of this paper think so, and devised a test to look at it. But did they really get at regret? What does it mean for aging? Head over to Scientific American Blogs […]
I feel like I am contractually* obligated to pull out the high heels for this post. (My fav heels. Lipstick added for good measure) Everyone knows why we wear high heels, right? For the sexy times, of course! In fact, it’s not just sexy times, it’s biological sexy times. As the headlines cried out to […]