No really. A fetish. Or rather, an animal MODEL of a fetish. Or at least, that’s the idea behind today’s study, which is a study of sexual conditioning. And WHAT animal is going to be the subject of such scientific debauchery??? (Source) Everyone please give a big welcome to one dirty little bird, the Japanese […]
Yes! I’m very happy to say I’ll be at the IgNobels again this year, tweeting live from the ceremony and interviewing as many winners as I can get my grubby little paws on. Most of the action will be happening over at Sci Am Blogs, and you should definitely follow along! I can’t wait to […]
Note: I was thinking about writing up some refutations on the idea that “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,”, because that is NONSENSE and that kind of claim makes me ragey. However, Kate Clancy over at Context and Variation has written up a […]
This is what happens when science bloggers talk to each other too much. I blame Laelaps (it was his idea!). Are you…grant writing? Your data…ravishing… Your paycheck…dwindling… Your scent…DESPERATION. (Source) DESPERATION: the new fragrance for academics everywhere. Smell hints of fear, lab chemicals, coffee, tears, musty papers, carpel tunel. Light notes of bitterness, regret, and […]
Sci is at Sci Am Blogs today, talking about a paper looking at fMRI signaling in anorexics as compared to controls and obese individuals. I’ve seen a bunch of papers on obesity and reward-related systems, but this is one of the first I’ve seen trying to look at anorexia, the opposite side of the reward […]
YES. YES. There is something called the Toot Trapper and it exists. This alone should be enough to make your day. It certainly made mine! Honestly, as with many of the papers I write for Friday Weird Science, it’s the methods of this paper that really take the cake. Beans, rectal tubes, Mylar pants, and […]
Sci is over at SciAm Blogs today talking about a new hot study getting some major press. The press release states that they have “blocked” addiction using a new drug called (+)-naloxone through the immune system, while “avoiding the wiring”. What the heck does that mean? And what did they really find? It turns out […]
NOTE: Sci is usually at SciAm Blogs on Monday, but they’re doing some updates to the site, and I thought I would stay over here for today, just in case. I have an officemate (and I know they’re reading, everyone say hi to my awesome officemate!) who likes to listen to pop music in the […]
I can’t help it, I read the abstract of this and just… But fear not, horny teenagers everywhere! You now have a scientific excuse for wanting to get it on in the hot days of summer. And the cold nights of winter. For all the horniness during spring and fall? Sorry, you’re on your own. […]
(Probably I could have saved this for Friday Weird Science, but I can’t help myself, it’s getting a lot of press, and hey…who doesn’t want two Fridays in a week? Happy Wednesday!) We all know how it goes. They stood, framed by stormclouds, together on the windswept cliff. The stranger held Rosamund in an iron […]