Sci watched the new Sherlock Holmes movie the other night. It’s cute, and one of the things that she really enjoyed was watching Sherlock Holmes use his amazing power of deduction: Sherlock Holmes: As to where I am, I was, admittedly, lost for a moment, between Charing Cross and Holborn, but I was saved by […]
Sci rather wishes this study were done in mice, if only so she could write “the city mouse and the country mouse” in her title. But it was done in humans, which was really probably a good thing. This post has some background. Sci was sitting around with her lab one day, shootin’ the breeze […]
Sci has been wanting to read “The Poisoner’s Handbook” by Deborah Blum for an AGE now, and she’s now even more thrilled that she can read her every day! Please welcome Deborah Blum to Scienceblogs, where she will be blogging at Speakeasy Science. The blog already has some crazy awesome stories of poisoning by different […]
This is one of those things that isn’t really related to neuroscience, to weird science, or to any of Sci’s normal science. Really, it was just something Sci found (in various places), and thought was really awesome. Cause it is! BEHOLD! The INCREDIBLE HEALING MOUSE!!! (awwwww) For those who know about working with rodents, it […]
This is actually a repost. But it’s still hilarious. Sci DID have something good all lined up, but then she went out for this DINNER. And it was a REALLY good dinner, and now I’m really full and it’s late and Sci is SO FULL AND SLEEPY AND (kind of inebriated…). So, repost. And next […]
As you might have noticed, Sci is really interested lately in the concept of food reward systems, in particular the issues associated with the effects of binge eating on reward systems in the brain, and the issue of “food addiction”. And Sci is not the only one who is interested. Lots of other people in […]
We all have different ways of celebrating big milestones, like getting a PhD. Some people pop open the champagne. Some people (the really, really LUCKY people) get to take a few weeks off and recover. But for those of us who can do neither, well…Sci got a tattoo! And you all want to know what […]
it turns out that, while apparently no one cares how sensitive women’s nipples are and whether they vary as a function of the menstrual cycle, a study has been done on MEN. On men’s nipples, and…everywhere else.
And now, let’s talk about nocioception.
Sci would like to note that she is without internet for the next few days for various reasons. Thus, there is a repost. Play nice on the internet everyone, or I’ll send the Evil Monkey after you. He bites. 🙂 Over my years as a grad student, I’ve been a guinea pig for more than […]