My illustrious coblogger points out that by taking part in research studies, a graduate student can actually afford to do things like, well, eat. Normally relegated to scraping the crumbs off the post-seminar cookie tray, or sneaking into a urology luncheon and being forced to sit through an hour talk on ureter infections only to […]
So apparently there’s a WHOLE NEW SPARKLY SHINY BLOG on here! I think I’m missing emails from teh overlordz here (did I say overlords? I meant protectors!). But anyway, Dr. Pal, formerly of the fabulous denialism blog, has resurrected his OWN blog, White Coat Underground, here at ScienceBlogs! It’s on medical ethics and stuff. It’s […]
As I’m sure you guys have heard from the other SBlings, the site is going dormant for a bit while we upgrade to a better publishing platform. You’ll still be able to see the posts, but no new posts will go up, and commenting will be down. This means you MUST COMMENT NOW OR FOREVER […]
I think you all know by now how happy it makes me to be getting free books in the mail. Well it turns out it makes me just as happy getting SHOES in the mail! When Sci arrived back from her probably-longer-than-she-deserved vacation, she found a box waiting for her. The box was from the […]
So last year, about this time, I made a resolution. I resolved to read 100 books in a year. 100 books in 365 days, just a little under 1 book every three days. It was a hard challenge, but I felt (and still feel) that I need to be well-read person, and so I plugged […]
‘Twas the night of experiments, and all through the lab All attention focused on the shape on the slab. All electrodes were strung outside to the air In hopes that some lightning soon would be there. The lab techs in their lab coats, and myself in mine Settled down with some coffee to wait for […]
I was GOING to write a really awesome sciency-post today. I was. But then I went to the lab, and then I had to prepare to go out of town, and then…ok, I’ll admit I spent about an hour of the time I should have been blogging reading Rowling’s “The Tales of Beadle the Bard”. […]
Every once in a while I publish a list of my current podcasts. I listen to a LOT of podcats, most of them pretty unrelated to science, but I’ve found a couple of other science bloggers do the same. Moreover, I am ALWAYS looking for new podcast recommendations. I spend a lot of time analyzing […]
I hope you all had a lovely turkey-filled Thanksgiving, and that no one trampled anyone to death on Black Friday (I am ashamed of people who would fail to notice they were running all over someone. That squishy feeling under your shoes? Notice it. And breaking down the doors to a WalMart? Have some dignity.) […]
Yeesh, I post ONE thing on tryptophan and everyone’s all like “excessive daytime sleepiness!” Oy. So let’s be straight here. Turkey contains tryptophan. So does chicken. So does beef. So does anything containing proteins, because tryptophan is an amino acid that is one of the building blocks of larger proteins. It contains it in roughly […]