This new article has gained substantial attention on the interwebs, and who can blame us? After all, knights, shining armor, it’s what lots of people like to pretend to be (or pretend to be rescued by, goes both ways). Picture it if you would: a damsel in distress, inches from death in the maw of […]
A weemahway, A weemahway… You think too hard about this paper, you’ll get this song in your head for the next few days. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Humans. We have a lot of fears, many of them somewhat justified. Heights, spiders, the scream mask. The dark. In Westernized countries a lot of these […]
One of my favorite types of posts is the type where I get to throw in a ton of music links. This one is no exception. Put on your headphones! I saw this paper covered in an article on Jezebel before I left for vacation, and there just wasn’t time to cover it then. The […]
Thanks again to NCBI ROFL, who finds these hilarious things and posts their abstracts for all the world to see, and for Sci to giggle over and then run around trying to find hilarious pictures of didgeridoos. So, let’s talk about your snoring problem. And then let’s talk about your musical stylings on the didgeridoo. […]
I was very pleased to run across this paper a few weeks ago. I answer a LOT of questions about psychiatric drugs (on blog and IRL), and one of the most frequent ones is “DO antidepressants hurt sexual activity?” and “HOW?” As for whether they DO, well, yes. The most popular class of antidepressants, the […]
Sci got the fodder for this week’s Friday Weird Science via Anne Jefferson of the Highly Allocthonous blog. Apparently Anne recently suffered a doozy of an episode of…pine nut mouth. What, you’ve never heard of it? Neither had I until this came along last week. But it’s a real phenomenon, and apparently a really disgusting […]
I thought of making this a normal science, but really it’s just too weird for that. I mean, what happens when you combine this: (Source) and this? (Source) Well…so far, probably nothing. But wouldn’t it be fun to watch them fight… Holmberg et al. “Does waterborne citalopram affect the aggressive and sexual behaviour of rainbow […]
You know, we keep hearing about things that cell phones may or may not do things. To the bees. To the risks of brain cancer. To your perceptions. To I don’t know what. But it’s time we focused on the IMPORTANT things, my friends. What does a cell phone do to your SEMEN? I mean, […]
Ever since doing a couple of pieces of cell phones and things like sperm, I’ve become curious about what other studies have been done on the effects of cell phone use and keeping a small, highly addictive electronic object on your person (even though, sometimes, I end up very wrong). Not surprisingly, there’s a large […]
It all started with an innocent Tweet. Jennifer Ouellette (of the very fine Cocktail Party Physics blog and The Calculus Diaries fame), tweeted a link to this, a blog doing the history of electricity via inventions. The link was for the following device: That, my friends, is an electrical device designed to prevent horses from […]