It’s time for Donor’s Choose, the time of year when we ask for donations to classrooms to help out kids with teh learnin’. I love this drive because it gives the opportunity to direct your money straight to the classrooms that need it, and allow them to directly buy the supplies that are needed to […]
Sci’s IgNobel prize coverage continues over at Sci’s Scientific American blog, where I’ve got coverage of the IgNobel prize winners. The latest posts are on the fire-alarm prowess of the WASABI, as well as when a sigh is more than just a sigh (though no one has yet empirically studied whether a cigar is just […]
Sci had a GREAT time at the IgNobels last night! Best ceremony I’ve ever been, by far. So much fun, so much crazy, and so much audience participation! But I’ll warn you, they really SUCKS for accuracy at throwing paper airplanes. 🙂 Make sure you check out the winners, the Storify and recording of the […]
Sci is SO EXCITED! I’m going to be at the IgNobel prizes this week, on Thursday night, blogging my little hands off on all the latest weird stuff! I’ll be doing it at SciAm, so please head over to my blog there, where we’ll be having a live tweet stream and a live feed of […]
Sci’s at SciAm blogs today talking about hippocampal place cells, how rats explore space, and how it’s easier to remember where you’ve been…once you’ve been there. Go check it out, and if you would like to comment without registering, you can do so here!
Men, do you ever worry about your facial hair? Do you worry about how manly it makes you look, how handsome, how old, how responsible? Have you ever become concerned about how your pencil thin moustache or your joined mutton chops is affecting your dating life? Well wonder no more! This study is here for […]
Sci is over at Scientific American today, talking about a new paper on aging in mice. It shows that a particular cytokine, CCL11, may be responsible for some of the effects of aging like decreased neurogenesis in the brain, and decreased cognitive performance. And it’s got parabiosis. Because OMG I didn’t even know people still […]
Yes! Sci was on the radio just recently, on the CBC show Spark , talking about pseudonyms, and why I have one, and why I think they are important. Interesting chance to hear both sides of the debate. So if you’d like to hear Sci’s dulcet tones (and they are so very dulcet), head on […]
This awesome paper on “sneaker squid” made headlines a few weeks ago. And so it should! I mean, SNEAKER SQUID? Heeeeehehehehe. Not only that, it’s got SPERM. Obviously I must blog this. Iwata et al. “Why small squid have big sperm: dimorphic squid sperm linked to alternative mating behaviors” BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011. And of […]
YES! The Ignobel Prizes are coming up again this year, where some of the oddest authors of the oddest studies out there get honored by real Nobel Laureates. It’s a very interesting prize series, because not only are these studies often funny, they are also often USEFUL. So the study could, say, entirely change how […]