Sci is at SciAm Blogs today, talking about a study about stress. It turns out, just basic acute stress can be fine, but SEVERE stress? Well that just makes it all worse. Head over and check it out!
Sci is at SciAm Blogs today, talking about a study about stress. It turns out, just basic acute stress can be fine, but SEVERE stress? Well that just makes it all worse. Head over and check it out!
I’m sure you all have heard “Beer before liquor, never sicker. Liquor before beer, everything clear”? Whether or not it’s true (and honestly, it’s not true), most people talk about differences in alcoholic drinks. Some people love wine, some people get horrible wine headaches. Some people are happy with beer, others find it makes them […]
I felt very inspired looking at the recent post from Jeremy Yoder, ‘Knowing what I know now‘. Well, first it reminded me of this: Though of course this is the BEST song of that title: But then it made me think of all the things that I WISH I’d known in grad school, the things […]
Or rather, not nematode “lovin’” but definitely nematode mating! Last week I talked about the new oxytocin analogue in C. elegans: nematocin, and its role in learning and memory. Today we have a paper from the very same issue of Science, looking at nematocin and its role in mating behavior. Because molecules this conserved in […]
Instead of Friday Weird Science this week, Sci is playing host to the Giant’s Shoulders carnival, the carnival on the history of science. And there’s plenty of weird and wild science in there! Everything from flesh eating mammoths to corpse stealing! Head over and check it out.
Sci came across a post by Jeremy Yoder at the Molecular Ecologist the other day. It was “Knowing what I know now” and was a set of reflections grad school. It’s full of great gems of advice. And it made me think of some advice of my own! There are LOADS of things that I […]
Oxytocin always makes a lot of press. It plays roles in reproduction and mating behavior, social bonding, behavior related to morality. To call it “the love hormone” as some people like to do, is to grossly oversimplify the things that it does, something which can even be dangerous. And it also, in my opinion, really […]
As we all know, science funding these days is really hard to come by. Rejection rates for federal grants are up over 80{9f43b4361d9a125bc126dd2a2d1949be02545ec69880430bc4fed2272fd72da3}. Labs are more and more expensive to run as more high tech equipment is required just to get the funding in the first place. And that’s not even going into the money […]
Sci is at SciAm Blogs today, this time with a repost from 2011, which looks at what happens in the brain when music gives you “chills”. Does music give you chills? Which kinds? And do you know what happens when it does? Head over and check it out.
Today’s Sunday Funny comes to you courtesy of Biochembelle. It’s not a bad paper at all, in fact it’s very useful, but the title is particularly well chosen. Sometimes you just gotta go for the low hanging fruit…