Krystal D’Costa of the fabulous Anthropology In Practice blog and I were chatting the other day. We got on the subject of being geeky, and I related an anecdote of my own geekdom. She wanted to look at it from an anthropological perspective, and so I’ve posted my recounting of it and my thoughts on […]
Sci woke up yesterday morning to some truly exciting news!!! I WON the 2011 Top Quark Prize for Science Writing from 3 Quarks Daily! I am so excited!!! I can’t use enough exclamation points!!!!! !!!!!!! No really. I’m so thrilled to have made it to the finals and sufficiently pleased the judges. 🙂 The post […]
Some of you are aware that I have a really great tattoo. I love it. It’s interesting, it’s personal, it’s artistic. In fact, it’s SO interesting that I get comments on it every day. On any given day when it’s exposed, I will get an average of four (low end 1, high end 20) people […]
Our latest Guest Blogge…guest, is one Nat Blair, of the blog Junction Potential, one of those older, crotchety, get offa my lawn kind of post-docs that Sci desires to be someday. An electrophysiologist and everything! And most of the time, he still even LIKES his life!!! Unheard of! 🙂 He’ll be there for the next […]
Check out Sci’s new duds! That’s my new “Trilobite Boy Fan” t shirt from Glendon Mellow’s collection. He’s the guy who designed my WONDERFUL tattoo, which I love every bit as much as the day I got it. As for this shirt, I love the cartoony little trilobite!!! He’s so cute! I will be wearing […]
Go and check me out. I’m writing about the relatively new phenomenon of the migraine postdrome, something which I actually suffer from and which is, so far, really understudied. Go read!
When @Artologica mentioned on Twitter that she’d put a new “coffee brain” picture on her Etsy, well of COURSE I had to look at it. I mean, DUH. And of course then I had to buy one. 🙂 Mine is is a nice coralish color for the background, and I like how the coffee rings […]
Scientists are skeptics. At least, most of us are. But we’re also, for better or worse, only human. And this means that we are…superstitious. At least, I am. Perhaps Sci is moreso than most. After all, Sci was raised something of a theater brat, and there is no group on earth more superstitious than a […]
Brian Switek of Laelaps had a great post up recently asking people whether they were inspired to go into science by dinosaurs. Despite the worries of science communicators that too many people use dinosaurs and space (and nothing else, I think it was Martin Robbins that first brought that to my attention, but I can’t […]
As you probably know by now, Scientopia has an awesome Guest Blog!!! We switch it up every two weeks, and this time we’ve got Rue Mapp from Outdoor Afro, a fabulous blog focused on connecting African Americans with the outdoors. Make sure to check her out!!