…ok I guess that probably won’t work for some of us. Fake beards, maybe? I know a guy with a rather luxuriant amount of facial hair. I once asked him if he ever put sunblock on it. Get in the cracks, you know? He said of course not, hair blocks sun. He’s never gotten a […]
Today’s Scicurious Guest Writer is up at SciAm Blogs, and Rory Fenton is writing to us about Quantum Mechanics, and how they could soon be running your computer! And if he writes about physics and I can get it, I’m pretty sure everyone else can, too. Head over and check it out!
Sci is at SciAm blogs today, talking about optogenetics. One of my colleagues over there isn’t so enthusiastic. I rather disagree. Check out our arguments! I want to see who “wins”. 🙂 Head over and check it out.
Today’s Friday Weird Science comes to you courtesy of Marc Abrahams, the founder of the IgNobel Prizes . The study was featured in his new book, This is Improbable, and Marc was kind enough to send me a copy of this paper when I asked about it. (Ok, honestly, Marc has sent me a freakin’ […]
Hi guys, Sci here. I’m afraid that things are more stressed than usual at around these parts. In fact, I may really, finally, have bitten off more than I can chew. So, things are going to be slow around here for a while. I’ll have posts up on Mondays at SciAm as usual. Fridays will […]
Sci is at SciAm Blogs today, writing about exercise and sleep. We all think that exercise should make you sleep like a baby, but well…it may be that sleeping like a baby makes you exercise! Sort of. Head over and check it out. Note: The irony of this post being that I wrote it while […]
It’s starting to come up yearly, or so. Maybe a little less often. It’s like a weather pattern, the blogging El Nino, briefly stirring up, and then going away, somewhat predictable, but just rare enough that you forget. But here it is again, someone telling the world that they don’t understand why people use pseuds. […]
(One of the oldest memes on the internet. And, in my opinion, one of the best) We all worry about stress for lots of reasons: weight gain, depression, headaches, insomnia. But have you ever worried about what stress…is doing to your ‘nads? Well, if you are the common starling, perhaps you should. McGuire et al. […]
We’ve been hearing a lot about sugar lately. Every few years, a new bugbear of diet comes to haunt us. First it was fats. Then it was carbs. Now it’s sugars. Sometimes it’s gluten or cholesterol. And it’s pretty scary to see all the studies come out. I worried about my sugar intake, now I’m […]
I figure it’s about time I finished up the tale of Mr. S and I heading to the “wilds” of the United Kingdom to hike Hadrian’s Wall. It’s funny the relationships you strike up on the wall. A bunch of us, couples, groups of friends, families, are all hiking the same distance per day, often […]