Please head to SciAm Blogs today and welcome this month’s Scicurious Guest Writer, Elizabeth Aston! She’ll be telling us about the combination of energy drinks and caffeine. Energy drinks are one thing, caffeine is another, but combined? That’s Loko. Head over and check it out.
I am so excited! The talented Katie of Symbiartic drew cartoons for my recent post on high fat food withdrawal. It’s got some GREAT pictures, and I’m so pleased she was inspired! And I totally want THIS: (Property of Katie McKisseck) As a poster!! Thanks so much Katie!
At SciAm Blogs today, I’m talking about a study looking at high fat diet withdrawal. Is there such a thing as withdrawal from a diet? And what does that mean? Head over and check it out!
Today’s Friday Weird Science was inspired by @TruffledSquirrel, Who sent me the following tweet. @scicurious you love science & coffee; any idea how much caffeine you can actually absorb through your skin? thisiswhyimbroke.com/caffeinated-so… — Joanna Martin (@trufflesquirrel) February 21, 2013 The link listed is to this product: This is Shower Shock, caffeinated soap. And in […]
It never fails. Every semester I train new students, and every semester, the same thing happens. I hand them a sheet of my guidelines for students. Listed in there is the following: 4. Write things down. You will be getting so much new information at first it will feel like drinking out of a fire […]
Sci was at AAAS last week to give a talk on Scientists and Social Media! We had a great audience with lots of questions, and I was so glad that people felt engaged! Of course, not everyone could make the talk, so if you WANTED to and couldn’t, I have put up my slides and […]
Today’s Friday Weird Science is inspired by Kate Clancy, or rather, Kate Clancy’s offspring. Said offspring had the recent misfortune to receive a gift in her shoe. A rather smelly gift. Yup, one of her preschool friends pooped in her shoe. So, just found out that one of the kids at preschool pooped in my […]
I’ve been at a lot of conferences lately. Heck I’m headed to another one today! At a lot of these conferences, you end up in a large room full of people. Maybe it’s the bar, maybe it’s a giant ballroom, maybe it’s a huge poster session floor. It’s absolutely echoing with the sound of dozens […]
Sci is headed to Boston tomorrow to participate in a panel on Engaging with Social Media at the AAAS meeting! I’m very excited to go, I have always wanted to go to a AAAS meeting! And I’d love to see you at the panel! So if you’re interested, head over to SciAm for details!
Sci is at SciAm Blogs today, talking about another aspect of dopamine. I usually talk about dopamine in the context of reward and addiction, but dopamine also plays a role in attention and learning, especially in something called prediction errors, learning how much your expectations match reality. But it turns out that, instead of being […]