Growing old with NF-kB

Sci is at SciAm blogs today talking about a new study on aging. Specifically, the discovery of a new role for the protein NF-kB. Less NF-kB? Longer lived mice. What does this mean and where does it go? Head over and check it out.

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Friday Weird Science: Are Boobs Better Braless?

I’m sure many of you saw the news going around a few weeks ago. Bras make breasts sag!! The French debate the bra! Etc etc. Of course, I immediately wanted to blog it! I mean, bras! Boobs! That’s Friday Weird Science material! And so I set out looking for the study. Until I realized…there was […]

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At Slate: Psychology is WEIRD

It’s a big day around the Scicurious Environs. Sci is at Slate today talking about WEIRD psychology studies. By which I mean those in Western, Education, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic Societies…and those mostly made of up college students. How does this impact the field of psychology? And how does it impact the way people look […]

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Scicurious…unmasked!

Sci is at SciAm blogs today talking about…well…who am I? I think it’s time you all found out. Head over and check it out!  

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The Lovely Voice of Daisy Buchanan

“…but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget” – The Great Gastby, F. Scott Fitzgerald Sci is at SciAm Blogs today, talking about voices. What makes a voice attractive to a man or a woman? What makes it one of those voices that you […]

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Friday Weird Science: Fatty Feces or Gassy Guano?

Does your poop float? Does it sink? Do you have floaters and sinkers depending on the day? Maybe you’re one of those people that never looks to see. Nah, don’t lie. You look. So if you have looked, surely you’ve wondered…what makes poop FLOAT? I seem to recall asking my mother this once as a […]

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