I got a haircut the other day. I’m tying to grow it longer, and it’s currently in what cannot be helped…the awkward phase. No matter how you cut it, it’s going to look awkward, and probably bad, or at least require far more trouble to make it look good than what I am willing to […]
Today’s post comes to you courtesy of Mary Roach (aka, the person I want to be when I grow up). I have a copy of her latest book, Gulp: adventures in the alimentary canal that I am reading for review, and a weird science connoisseur such as myself of course spends half her time in […]
Over at SciAm blogs today, make sure to check out this month’s Scicurious Guest Writer, Emily Burns! She’s talking about when protein folding goes bad, and how it can cause disease, particularly diseases like Cystic fibrosis. Make sure to head over and check it out!
Sci is at SciAm blogs today, looking at a recent study which examines the effects of stress on telomerase. Telomerase lengthens your telomeres, and telomeres help keep your cells from aging. In times of stress, you might want to keep your telomeres long. Head over and check it out. EDIT (3/26/13): Based on reader comments, […]
Most everyone who drinks has had some variation on this conversation with other drinkers: Person 1: Let’s go out and get margaritas!!! Person 2: Ugh, beer for me then, tequila does horrible things to me. Person 1: Well I can’t do beer, clear liquors are the only way I never get a hangover! …and so […]
Sex does strange things to males. Specifically, to some kinds of male mice. When a male mouse is a virgin, he makes for a terrible father figure. Male mice who haven’t mated show a lot of aggression toward baby mice (pups) and will attack and kill them if you let them. But what happens when […]
Sci is at SciAm Blogs today, talking about a recent controversy. The paper is not a scientific study, instead it’s a scientific study of scientists, and how they look at science communication. Do they use blogs? Media outlets? Who do they trust, who do they think has influence? The answers are, sadly, not very surprising, […]
Today’s paper came to me via a tweet from the perspicacious Ivan Oransky, who linked to the Reuters coverage. I can’t help it, this paper made me sing. *sings* To everything (sperm, sperm, sperm) There is a season (sperm, sperm, sperm) And a time, to many humans, for conceeeeeeeeption. Or perhaps… *sings* It’s the time, […]
Sci is at SciAm Blogs today for the launch of the new SciAm MIND section! Make sure to head over and check out all things brain! And I’m there today talking about a study looking at positive bias in processing social feedback. Because it’s true, we all really go prefer compliments! Head over and check […]
Sci is at SciAm blogs today, talking about how some plants, particularly the coffee and citrus plants, use caffeine in their nectar to make bees remember them. But do they remember them fondly? Well that is still to bee determined. Head over and check it out!