Sci is OFF to SFN TODAY!! We’ll you there! And in the meantime, let the pre-blogging continue! We’re skipping Friday Weird Science this week, in order to begin Sci’s graceful swan dive into the morass that is SFN. Sci’s been getting lots of email from awesome scientists, and she hopes to show up at their […]
Sci did a post last year on posters at SFN, the difference between a good poster, a better poster, and the best posters (I’m talking with regards to styling, not content, if you’ve got crappy content, Sci simply cannot help you). I’ve found that, over time, some of my opinions on posters have changed, while […]
I have a growing list, the more conferences that I go to, of things that one should REALLY not do when giving a conference talk. Sadly, I see these things all the time. The good thing about this is that when I see a really good presentation, my socks are knocked off and I am […]
The science of sumo wrestlers. What could be better? Now, you might look at these guys, and the LAST thing on your mind is their hands. Mostly you think they could probably crush you just by looking at you funny. And perhaps, if their HANDS are right, they could. Tamiya et al. “Second to fourth […]
YES! Sci applied, and got picked, to be one of the “neurobloggers” for the Society for Neuroscience meeting this year in Washington, DC!! It’s gonna be a GOOD time. Each day of the conference I will be posting about the latest and greatest neuroscience over at Scientific American. And in the days leading up to […]
I found a great paper the other day on the evolution of overconfidence. But I was having the worst time explaining it…until I thought of those guys from the Jersey Shore. And shots. So head over to Scientific American and hear what it’s all about!
Yup. Really piercing. I got today’s Friday Weird Science via Ivan Oransky. I don’t know WHERE he finds this stuff, but find it he does! When we think of Paleolithic humans, we often think of things like cave drawings, spearheads and artifacts. We think of stone tools and people hunting mammoths with spears. But it […]
Donor’s Choose is over for another year. I’m always thrilled to participate, and I wish I could have done more. I can only make so many excuses like “work has avalanched on top of me”…but it HAS! HONEST! Anyway, this is a BIG THANK YOU to all those who donated to my Donor’s Choose page!!! […]
Sci is at Sciam Blogs today talking about the latest coffee study!! I think it’s a good study with an interesting finding, but I wasn’t so thrilled with how it was handled in the media. Sorry, but coffee will probably not prevent your depression. Let alone cure it. But the delicious brown roasted bean still […]
But especially to the new students and postdocs who don’t yet really know what’s up, You know that delicious scent you just bought? That nice perfume? That neat smelling shampoo? That cool new deodorant or body spray? Guess what? I can smell it. And so can the rodents. By now, young students, you may be […]