Sci’s Coffee-sipping Roundup #18

We started this week a little snowy, but that doesn’t stop the science!! Stay cozy. Grab some coffee. Sip with me. Monday: Danger, Ron Weasley. Spiders that group together in gangs of 50,000. ow.ly/Xqewu by @jgold85 New Sci! There’s a sour side to serotonin. Literally. ow.ly/Xv2iF How a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered she shared a […]

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Sci’s Coffee-Sipping Roundup, #17

We may be completely snowed under here on the East Coast, but that means, hey, you’ve got nothing to do but read some cool science links with ME! Let us begin with some coffee. Monday: Ok this is pretty cool. There’s a site that chronicles the “accidental” fossils in the architecture of DC. ow.ly/X6GcT A […]

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Sci’s Coffee-sipping Roundup #16

There’s a tortoise hidden somewhere in these links. Bet you can’t find it.   Monday: A tour thru the wacky world of period-related patents. Vibrating tampons. pH monitoring! Bluetooth! ow.ly/WLT8s by @roseveleth Sad but true: In academia, people are sometimes asked to write their own letters of rec. I know I did. ow.ly/WNDi5 Ancient Rome’s […]

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Sci’s Coffee-sipping round up, #15

New year, new links! But first, coffee.   Monday: The seventh row of the periodic table is officially full. ow.ly/WyWdj A rather sweet interview with a glaciologist who ended up studying global warming on a round about way with whisky. ow.ly/WyWpg Nature has a list of their top books from 2015. I’m amused to see […]

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