Sci arrived early to ScienceOnline, and got for the first time to go on one of the lab tours. This time she got to go into the Duke immersive virtual environment (DiVE). This is a completely awesome interactive experience where you put on 3-D glassers, step into a virtual reality room that looks JUST like […]
There will be no Friday Weird Science today (though I’ve got a COOL one for next week!) because Sci will be traveling to Science Online 2010! She’s totally excited to be going this year, as there are lots of cool sessions and lots of cool people who will be attending. Unfortunately, Sci has also contracted […]
I’m sure you’ve all heard by now about the huge earthquake that hit Haiti yesterday. As you all probably already know, the proceeds of this blog go to Doctors Without Borders, which is one of the groups trying to do some good down there. While you are certainly welcome to donate with your clicks (which […]
It is TIME! And long past time. 🙂 After much deliberation, a fantastic panel of judges has decided on the 50 best science blogging posts of the year, to be published in this year’s Open Laboratory! Competition was fierce, with an unprecedented 760 posts submitted by readers and bloggers for this year’s anthology. But we […]
It’s all about the music. Gill and Purves. “A biological rationale for musical scales” PLoS ONE, 2009 So you might think that music like this: (HOT STUFF. Go to 0:35 for the real hotness. It’s Victoria’s O Magnum Mysterium) or this: (Also some killer hot stuff, 3:50 has the real chills. The Lauridsen version) Don’t […]
The problem is, the media here was not after the truth of the existence of the G-spot. They were after the CONTROVERSY over the existence of the G-spot.
Dear Mass Media Covering Science (BBC, CNN, etc): I need some help. I often get emailed or tweets from readers, saying “hey! look at this article! Isn’t it cool/weird?! You should cover it!” I see the article. It is indeed very cool and weird. I’m all up ons. Except for one problem: What, exactly, was […]
Sci is about to embark on what she suspects will be two or three months with very little sleep, due to various personal and professional matters, and of course, blogging matters. And while she was discussing this with some friends, one of them brought up something very interesting: She said “does anyone else feel COLD […]
It’s New Year’s, and Sci is going to take it easy with some more good food, and a few New Year’s Resolutions. (Sci might be quitting bananas, she doesn’t need the extra potassium THAT badly…) So her question is: what are your New Year’s Resolutions? If you don’t make them, why not? Sci likes New […]
Last year (that was 2008), Sci made a resolution to read 100 books in a year. She did pretty well at the outset. But then she went and start this…blog thing. Book reading declined steeply. But I still fit in a good bit. Last year’s list is here. But this year, I knew I would […]