Coturnix pointed out that many people may feel too shy to just put their condom breakage experiences in the comments, but Sci is extremely curious to find out why condoms in general break in the population. So she made a SURVEY!* Please do take it, and I’ll graph up the results in a few days. […]
First of all, I hope everyone had a fantastic Pi day! Everyone should have eaten pie together at 1:59pm (or am, depending on preference). Mine was pi-tastic. There’s a new blog afoot at Scienceblogs! And this one, involves LIQUID HOT MAGMA! Sadly, Erik does not look like Dr. Evil. But he’s pretty cool nonetheless. So […]
This is actually a Friday Weird Science repost from the old blog. I’ve had a few requests to do something on condom breakage, though, in the words of Dr. Pal “I think a lot of the time when “the condom broke” they really mean it was in the dresser drawer.” It’s true, I’ve never actually […]
Dr. Philips was of the firm opinion that there were two kinds of death. The first was the kind where respiration ceased. Then, a person was dead. But they weren’t ALL dead. Just MOSTLY dead.
*drumroll* And the winner is…. me. Yup! Scicurious will be the guest editor of Open Lab 2009! I’m super thrilled to be involved, and it’s a big honor to be asked to do something like this, especially because it means I’ll be buried typing-fingers deep in the best science blogging to be found! For those […]
The stupidity of science is constructive, productive stupidity. The kind you get every day in grad school…perhaps not.
In case you hadn’t heard, a UCLA researcher had his car firebombed recently. You can get the story here. The firebombing is one in a series of aggressive acts aimed at university researchers who use animals in medical studies, UCLA spokesman Phil Hampton said. In other cases, firebombs have been left on doorsteps and in […]
No, not where ARE you when you think of yourself. Where does it happen? What part of the brain? This question has become very important to the world of cognitive neuroscience recently. We used to think of self-reflection as taking place only in the prefrontal cortex. This would mean that only animals with a well-developed […]
Sigh. These friday weird science titles just keep getting worse and worse! But there’s really no other way to put this paper. And it kind of carries on the depression theme I’ve had going for the past few weeks. Well, kind of. Gallup et al. “Does semen have antidepressant properties?” Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2002. […]
I feel so famous. So why do I feel famous? Two reasons: 1) Dr. Pal mentioned Sci in his PalCast! It gave Sci a warm glow inside. The PalCasts are some great stuff, btw. All we need to do now is get them on my ipod (*cough cough* Pal, get on iTunes *cough cough*) so […]