When I was asked to review Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and my My Sister Stole My Mother’s Boyfriend, by Barbara Oakley, I was pretty certain that my life as a Science Blogger had reached its peak. I mean, blogging about science AND FREE BOOKS?! You’re not serious. When I got […]
I hope you all had a lovely turkey-filled Thanksgiving, and that no one trampled anyone to death on Black Friday (I am ashamed of people who would fail to notice they were running all over someone. That squishy feeling under your shoes? Notice it. And breaking down the doors to a WalMart? Have some dignity.) […]
A somewhat late Friday Weird Science, but I want to point out that Sci was not up at 4am shopping with all the crazies. I don’t DO that sort of thing. Online is so much better. So here I was, rolling myself around the house after a particularly delicious Thanksgiving dinner, and contemplating what offering […]
Yeesh, I post ONE thing on tryptophan and everyone’s all like “excessive daytime sleepiness!” Oy. So let’s be straight here. Turkey contains tryptophan. So does chicken. So does beef. So does anything containing proteins, because tryptophan is an amino acid that is one of the building blocks of larger proteins. It contains it in roughly […]
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, hands down. Well, ok, I also celebrate a series of personal holidays on the day after Valentine’s, the day after Easter, the day after Halloween, and the day after Christmas. Why hinge your emotions on the uncertainty of a holiday when you have the certainty of all the chocolate going […]
I first got this question from the lovely Stephanie, and then again from the Borg: How does Science Fiction relate to you as a scientist? I am a Sci-Fi lover. Well, Sci-Fi and fantasy. I am mostly a book person, but I also do DVDs (I do not own a working TV and haven’t for […]
Yeah, this should have happened on Saturday, but I was, yet again, busy. Ideally, if I can get enough done over the next few days, I can take some time off during Thanksgiving, and Mr. SiT will not be having to bring me pie and coffee while I type and miss Thanksgiving dinner. This would […]
Think of a copper tea kettle (I’m cold, tea is warm…). When you think about it, where is it? It’s in a kitchen, right? Possibly on a stove. It’s definitely in a context where you would expect it to be. Now take that tea kettle, and put it in your mind somewhere like…a desert. Surrounded […]
This SHOULD be the time when I’m working crazy hard on InAdWriMo, trying to get those paper drafts up and running (ideally they should be ready on MONDAY). Perhaps I should have been doing that rather than writing a 3,000 word post on posters (Really! Count!). So it goes. But here I am, and instead […]
Yesterday, a very sleep-deprived (and possibly hungover) Sci finally dragged herself back to reality. SFN is a great opportunity to meet many, many people (most of whom will not remember me and I will be introducing myself AGAIN. I can’t even get grad students to remember me!), and to see some really cool stuff, but […]