Over at SciAm Blogs, I’m talking about a brand new technique called Arclight, which detects voltage changes in neurons, allowing you to watch as a neuron fires, in real time. It’s pretty cool, and there are videos! Head over and check it out!
Over at SciAm Blogs, I’m talking about a brand new technique called Arclight, which detects voltage changes in neurons, allowing you to watch as a neuron fires, in real time. It’s pretty cool, and there are videos! Head over and check it out!
It’s summertime, and that means it’s time to head to the beach. And of course, when there’s only a limited amount of beach, a limited amount of summer, and lots of people, well, you get crowded beaches. What’s the first thing that anyone does when they go to the beach? No, it’s not running straight […]
Day 6: The WALL! (Yes. I am standing on a 2000 year old UNESCO World Heritage Site. What did YOU do today?) After a fortifying breakfast (it was make your own, which I really liked, and I have MASTERED the full English breakfast! With beans! Good for hiking fuel, beans) we set off. 15 miles […]
Ok, we’re not to Hadrian’s Wall yet. Patience. Patience. Day 3: Edinburgh, part the third. Did you know that bagpipe renditions of Coldplay exist? I could have gone my entire life without knowing that. Sadly, it was blasting from a souvenir shop. Which means, of course…I had to find it and share it with you. […]
Hi Everyone! I’m back and suffering from a certain amount of jetlag (but since that means I woke up at 6:00am with absolutely no effort, I’m actually not really complaining. I hope it keeps up!). It’s a little scary to return to the wild, wonderful world of the internet, the hundreds of emails and tweets, […]
Because while I wasn’t here, I left blog posts in my wake! At SciAm while I was gone, you could read about a sleep study that looked at food intake. Not surprisingly, sleep less, gain more. But what is it carbs? Fat? Protein? Head over and find out! And not only that, I also wrote […]
You know, it’s nice to know that there are people out there who really CARE. Who CARE about things like penises. Animal penises. And how they work. And who care so much about animal erections that they will create mathematical functions to describe them. Where would we (or at least, weird science) be without these […]