Today’s post comes to us from the fabulous Allie Wilkinson, science journalist and blogger at “Oh, for the love of science!” When she told me she had a new paper on anogenital distance…well I had to see it. And when she said she had a VIDEO to go WITH…well it’s below the fold. Everyone give […]
Ok, really today’s post isn’t about that. But it’s definitely the one major thing I took away from this paper. This post is actually about the effects of cell phones on semen. But refer to your semen as “neat” once, and well, it sticks with you. (These scientists like their semen the way they like […]
In the animal kingdom, we often don’t tend to think too much about male mate choice, the choice that the males have over the females they mate with. This is mostly because…well we basically think that males will hump anything that looks vaguely like a female. Or even that DOESN’T look vaguely like a female. […]
You know, I tried SO hard to come up with a good rhyme…”When your legs give a yank, turn to your spank bank?” “Are your legs restless? Masturbate to redress!” “If your legs still shake, yank or your trouser snake?” I got nothin’. Rhyming has failed me here. But the weird science, it NEVER fails […]
Of COURSE this awesome paper would blow up the internets on a Monday, and of course, as you know, Sci is never funny on Mondays. She is only funny on Fridays. Should you ever find Sci funny on any other day of the week, you are delusional. But now I have the paper, and I’d […]
For today’s Dose of Friday Weird Science, I thought I could do something April Fools’y, but I’ve always thought that day was really pretty dumb. Instead, I have something MUCH BETTER. TODAY, Sci presents to you Brian Switek, of the Laelaps Blog over at Wired (Brian is also the writer of the Smithsonian’s Dinosaur Tracking)! […]
There will be no NORMAL Friday Weird Science this week. Sci’s got something special coming at ya! Keep your eyes peeled. But of course, I couldn’t just do a week without doing my NORMAL weird science, right?? Ok, I’ll be honest, nothing else really appealed to me and…it’s SNAILS IN SPACE. You know what? […]
“5 Seconds!!!” I don’t know about you, but I have always been a big fan of this rule. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s when you drop some food on the floor or ground or somewhere else that is probably pretty gross, and if you pick it up before 5 seconds have passed, it’s […]
NOTE: Sci received word on 3/26/2012 that this study will be RETRACTED, due to “lack of approval of the article by co-authors, lack of evidence to justify the accuracy of the data presented in the article and overlap of data and figures between this article and two others”. So take this study with that much […]
I’m sure by now everyone here has heard about the Penis Spine Story. The actual paper involved bigger brains as well as penis spines…but who cares about brains when PENIS SPINES are around?? Yeah I didn’t think so. When I read the coverage of the penis spines, and heard it was the technical term, I […]