…and not just their eyes, their wings! Sci is at SciAm Blogs today, talking about a recent study which showed how dragonflies make the lightning fast adjustment to their wings that allow them to catch prey. That, and a lot of other interesting facts about dragonflies, can be found over at the Scicurious Brain! Head […]
Ah, barnacles. You wouldn’t really think that something with the reputation of…well, of being a barnacle, would really have an exciting sex life. I mean, they’re barnacles. They are the very definition of something that is stuck in the mud. They hatch, they head to the open ocean for a few glorious weeks as whale-food, […]
As a distance runner, I see a lot of nutritional advice. As we get more serious about running, more serious about decreasing our times, increasing our distance, and other measures of “performance”, we start haunting forums and websites, places that refer to food as “fuel”. You hear a lot about “pre-race fuel”, “post-race fuel”, “post-workout […]
What the difference between someone aging happily, and someone with late-onset depression? Does it have to do with regret? Missed opportunities? The authors of this paper think so, and devised a test to look at it. But did they really get at regret? What does it mean for aging? Head over to Scientific American Blogs […]
I feel like I am contractually* obligated to pull out the high heels for this post. (My fav heels. Lipstick added for good measure) Everyone knows why we wear high heels, right? For the sexy times, of course! In fact, it’s not just sexy times, it’s biological sexy times. As the headlines cried out to […]
I’m sure that most of the academic readers of this blog (and heck, maybe the non-academics, too!) have seen the recent outrage that results from a Forbes post: The least stressful jobs of 2013. The winner of this title went to the university professor, due to: they are off between May and September and they […]
Sci is at Scientific American Blogs today, talking about a great new project for getting informed citizen voices involved in science policy. ECAST is a fantastic new initiative that makes great efforts to get citizens directly involved with science policy, and an even better effort to make sure people from all walks of life are […]
If you’re the kind of nerd like me, then you’re the kind of nerd that really liked spending time in libraries and old bookrooms as a kid. To this day I love having books around me, especially the old kind with nice leather covers. And of course, if you’re spent time around old books, you […]
Higher Education people are all talking about the MOOC. MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses including sites like Udacity and Coursera, are the latest hotness in online learning and open classrooms. The big universities like Cal Tech are getting on board, and asking their professors to contribute. The concept is that of an online class enhanced, […]
Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone!!! Well, Happy New Year’s Eve from the lab. Because there’s where Sci is. Rodents don’t really care if it’s a holiday. Does anyone have any New Year’s Resolutions? Sci’s always involve publication numbers…but I’d like to hear yours. What have you got?