The news broke yesterday that The Intersection will be moving to Discover! I’m very excited for Chris and Sheril, but we’re going to miss them a lot. 🙁 They can now be found here, but you can still access their archives here. Luckily, the internet is only a click away, and I won’t have to […]
…there are lots of hypotheses out there on how music improves certain aspects of brain function. And now, for the first time, researchers actually showed that musical training can change the way the brain develops, not just in terms of eventual function, but in its very structure.
Sci should point out that she is not a hipster snob. Merely an indie nerd. And not even a very good one. I definitely don’t have my finger on the pulse of what’s going on. But every so often, SciBro will send Sci some awesome music. Like this: Today has been a beautiful, beautiful Sunday. […]
Take this as proof of just how dedicated Sci is to all of you. She spent her who day staring at a screen working up data, and then she spent the whole NIGHT doing it as well! But hey, inquiring minds wanted to know!
And so, the results of….The condom survey
First off, the survey on condom breakage is officially CLOSED. Results will be posted tomorrow. You KNOW you’re curious about this one! Secondly, A Blog Around the Clock has the latest buttons for OpenLab submissions! Please head over and vote for your favorites! Not only that, a whole boatload of submissions have ALREADY come in […]
A couple of contradictory self-administration studies and some studies on dopamine effects in the brain, in this case, just isn’t enough to prove the drug “addictive”. And is modafinil the next cocaine? Probably not.
Since I posted a while ago on “why I am a scientist“, I’ve been thinking of what makes a scientist. This has been partially inspired by a post that Laelaps wrote a while ago, on whether to consider himself a scientist, and also brought to the front of Sci’s head by a post over at […]
First, a reminder to everyone to please take the condom breakage survey! Click Here to take survey. I will try to post results at the end of the week. Second, the latest edition of Giant’s Shoulders is out over at the Evilutionary Biologist. And we’re in it, for the post on Death that proved I […]
Sorry guys, my “nonprofessional” subscription to SurveyMonkey was apparently not enough for the power of the hordes. 🙂 And I’m totally thrilled that so many people want to take the survey!!! So Dave Munger of Cognitive Daily has been gracious enough to host my survey on his professional-type SurveyMonkey. Please do try again if it […]
This is post 5 in my ongoing, now-approaching-behemoth-size series of posts on depression. I’ve got other posts available on the etiology of depression, the current pharmacotherapies, studying depression in the lab, and the serotonin theory of depression, which of course you can read and refer to if you’re curious. This post will be on what […]