Humans are infuriating creatures. We don’t ever just want to know how. Or when, or what. We want to know WHY. WHY is the sky blue. WHY do we search for the Higgs Boson. WHY is blood red. WHY do people perform cunnilingus. Deep questions, man. But for these deep questions, there is SCIENCE. And […]
So, Science Online DC is having a get together tonight to talk about online commenting. How we deal with it, who does it, and what it does to us. And I’ll be there, giving my bit of the tale. Come on out for some pizza and beer!
Whenever you get really stressed out, do you ever get the urge to just…run? Literally? Ok, maybe most of us run in the direction of the nearest bakery. But running (or otherwise doing long term exercise, probably not just a jog around the block) really can help with anxiety. But how does it work? […]
Sci is at SciAm blogs today, with a brand new study on singing and heart rate. Can singing affect your heart rate? How? And why? The study is interesting, but there’s a lot of caution to be taken with it. Head over and check it out.
Today’s post fodder comes to you from the former NCBI ROFL, now “Seriously, Science?” over at Discover Blogs. I swear, I do TONS of pubmed searches for farts, but somehow never found this one. In what position do you prefer to fart? Do you let them loose while lying down? Cut the cheese crouching? Squeak […]
I’m sure everyone has heard that activities like Sudoku and doing lots of math can help maintain your cognitive function as you age. This is because these activities require increased “cognitive load”, they are hard to do and therefore take more cognitive effort. Doing this as you age (and preferably starting long before you age) […]
Sci has a piece over at Slate today, asking “What is dopamine?” We often hear about dopamine being motivation, lust, love, reward, addiction. Is it any, or all of these things? The answer is much more complicated, and much, MUCH more interested. Head over and check it out!
The human body is a versatile thing. So versatile that receptors that we usually think of as being important for taste…are also important in your SPERM. On the tongue, it’s sweet or savory. In the testes…infertility. At least in mice. Head over and check it out!
…well have you ever ASKED it? Maybe it is more of a Picasso type of mouse. This seems like a completely absurd question. After all, art is thought to be one of the highest of the human endeavors, making things of beauty may be one of the things that makes us the species that we […]
Over at SciAm Blogs today, please check out this month’s Scicurious Guest Writer, Roshan Karki! He’s writing about science communication in Nepal, and the challenges that it faces. Make sure to head over and check it out!