Today we continue ONWARD with the series on the Cranial Nerves. But we’re doing something a little different. Because last time we covered the Oculomotor Nerve, which innervates FOUR of the SIX muscles which control the eye, today we’re going to round out the eye (heh, round, eye, heh) and do the other TWO. But […]
In the last few posts we’ve covered the first two cranial nerves, the Olfactory and the Optic nerves (remember our mnemonic: Oh, Oh, Oh, To Touch And Feel Virginia’s Gucci Vest, Ah Heaven). Both of these cranial nerves carry sensory information IN to the brain for processing, and don’t really control motion. For nerves like […]
Last time we talked about the very basic anatomy of the eye. It was a lot of material. It’s too much. For you, I will sum up. Light and images come through the cornea and hit the lens. The lens flips the image backward. The light continues to the back of the eye, often to […]
…or rather, the visual system. Cause you can’t really talk about the optic nerve unless you talk about the rest of the eye along with it. We humans rely pretty heavily on vision as a species. At least, being able to see is a lot more important to our daily lives than, say, being able […]
I’ve been waiting for a while to take on another multi-part project (ok, I needed to recover from EB first), and now I think it is TIME. Time for a series SO LARGE that it’s going to take me probably more than three weeks, or even four to finish (with breaks for Friday Weird Science, […]
There’s no question that the opinions of society play a very large role in how we perceive ourselves, particularly in terms of physical attractiveness. For example, in our society (Western/USian), women are judged heavily on their body weight. Men get flak for not being muscular enough (though not half as much as women). We all […]
People react to stress in different ways. Some people seem to thrive under a constant deluge of deadlines, and galvanize to action in the face of life stress. In others, stress can be a trigger for psychiatric disorders such as depression, leaving them feeling helpless and causing difficulties in their everyday lives. But each person […]
After however long Sci has been in the blogsphere, I think I’ve become inured to the near constant babble of breathless science reporting. Oral contraceptives CHANGE YOUR BRAIN!! You are yourself…ON HORMONES. Cell phones cause brain cancer! TIDAL WAVES of hormones. TSUNAMIS of brain activity! A veritable STORM SURGE of wave metaphors have invaded our […]
Today’s post is actually a TANDEM post. I’m sharing posting on this piece today with the brilliant and totally cool Kate Clancy of Context and Variation. So once you’ve finished here, head over THERE for her half of the take on this paper. Kate showed me this paper, and I was immediately interested by the […]
Sci’s terrible at languages. TERRIBLE. In my time, I’ve successfully mastered English, and attempted to master four other languages (five if you count a brief foray into Elvish when I was 15, but that doesn’t really count) in my time. I have failed at ALL of them. Every once in a while I would achieve […]