Is that MY voice? OHwell

I tried to find a video of the Emperor’s New Groove where Yzma gets turned into a cat and it’s hilarious and adorable. But all I could find were fandubs, most of which were terrible. Why the heck do people make versions of this stuff and put it out there on the internet! It’s a […]

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The Return of the Who are You Thread

…The return of the bride of the who are you thread? The return of the son of the who are you thread? The bride of the son of the twice removed cousin of the thread… Anyway, I saw this meme over at Drugmonkey, and again at Not Exactly Rocket Science, and decided it would be […]

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Prozac, Ritalin, Cognitive Enhancement, and the power of a snappy title

Let it be known that Sci, like many a young, bright-eyed little scientist, tries to keep up on her reading. TRIES is the operative word, but every week Sci gets the Tables of Contents for all the major journals in her field (and all the major ones in her subdisciple) emailed straight to her for […]

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Zombies and Cannibalism: the spread of an epidemic

OMG ZOMBIE POST!!! Let’s all pause and contemplate how awesome I look as a zombie. I DO love brains. Very much. OM NOM NOM. So Sci was thinking about what to post for Zombie Day. She thought about wondering if dogs could sniff early stage zombie infection and thus help with quarantine. She thought about […]

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SCIENCEBLOGS ZOMBIE DAY!!!

AND HERE IT IS! THE AWESOMENESS WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!!! BEHOLD! ZOMBIE DAY!!!! All we SciBlings want to do is eat your brains Sci loves Jonathan Coulton WAY too much. So you might ask, where did this come from? Well, the other day, Sci was talking to Pal. And we were talking about how […]

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Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Cell Cycle

This is a paper in which Sci has a certain amount of personal investment. You see, Sci has a family member who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis. And when I say suffer, I mean she suffers terribly. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease where you own body attacks the lining of the membranes between your joints. […]

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Calling Grad Students, past, present, and future

Samia, over at 49 Percent, is about to become a brand spanking new grad student. And, like the good blogger she is, she’s interested in the input of…other bloggers. What’s grad school going to be like? What should people watch out for? What things should you look for when choosing a lab? When choosing a […]

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Here there be dragon drool!!!

Sci was going to save this one for a Friday Weird Science, but it’s just so awesome that she couldn’t bring herself to save it. She had to blog it NOW! It’s not neuroscience, but it’s awesome. Also, there’s dragons. Not this kind: (Anyone else think Dragon Age Origins is really awesome?! Well, Sci spends […]

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