Dear Mass Media Covering Science (BBC, CNN, etc): I need some help. I often get emailed or tweets from readers, saying “hey! look at this article! Isn’t it cool/weird?! You should cover it!” I see the article. It is indeed very cool and weird. I’m all up ons. Except for one problem: What, exactly, was […]
It’s New Year’s, and Sci is going to take it easy with some more good food, and a few New Year’s Resolutions. (Sci might be quitting bananas, she doesn’t need the extra potassium THAT badly…) So her question is: what are your New Year’s Resolutions? If you don’t make them, why not? Sci likes New […]
Last year (that was 2008), Sci made a resolution to read 100 books in a year. She did pretty well at the outset. But then she went and start this…blog thing. Book reading declined steeply. But I still fit in a good bit. Last year’s list is here. But this year, I knew I would […]
Sci hopes that all of you had a truly fantastic Thanksgiving. Sci’s family Thanksgiving was awesome as usual, and this year featured FOUR KINDS of pie. None of them your regular pumpkin, because we’re CRAZY like that. Sci’s contribution this year was a purple sweet potato pie. Really really. Anyway, Sci has returned! And then […]
Sci was totally going to blog the effects of oxytocin in men tonight. Unfortunately, she has recently been stricken by a migraine of rather impressive proportions. Under such conditions, she has no ability to focus on things like brightly lit screens, cannot make herself understand anything more complicated than monosyllabic concepts like “ouch”, and is […]
We Interrupt this craziness on Oxytocin for an important PSA: Open Lab is COMING!!! Sci all of a sudden looked up, realized it was November, and realized the deadline for post submission was December 1!!! That’s close, people, real close. Right now, we have well over 470 entries (which you can see on Bora’s blog […]
Once Upon a Time, there was a little girl. This little girl became Scicurious. Her dad had a large role in getting her there. My Mom gave me charm, sparkle, and confidence. My dad gave me his sense of humor. And my dad gave me running.
Now that all the COMPLETE CRAZINESS of SFN is over (IT WAS SO CRAZY), Sci is a little free to, well, not relax, but do the 50 million things she was supposed to be doing while she was at SFN…ugh… Anyway, today’s blog pick emphasizes this predicament somewhat: ISIS, the Domestic and Laboratory GODDESS! Really. […]
You all know I could never write about blogs I like without hitting this one: That’s right, Drugmonkey. These bloggers are often controversial, but always interesting. Physioprof and Drugmonkey (or Drugmonkey and Physioprof, or who knows, perhaps DrugPhysioMonkey or PhysiomonkeyDrug, they may be the same person!!!!) provide a lot of cool insight. Not only do […]
About time we got some LADIES up in this blog! Behold: Ambivalent Academic Part of the reason I love Ambivalent Academic is because I’m pretty sure she’s Sci’s alter-ego. Every single time she posts something frustrated, yet hilariously witty about grad student life, I read it and say “DUDE! THAT’S ME!!!” Her writing gives a […]