I promise it’s the only plug. Promise! See that little link on the sidebar for my cafepress store? I’ve got cool stuff there. Everything from Scicurious messenger bags to mugs to beer steins to THONGS. And of course there are lots of tshirts! It’s all Sci stuff, and it all could be YOURS! Think of […]
To the Dude who sat down in front of me in seminar Friday having previously bathed in Axe, I hate you. Believe me, if the choice for you is between a shower and bathing in Axe, take the shower, I assure you that everyone around you would prefer it. You reek to high heaven. And […]
Hello and welcome to Scientopia, a brand spanking new blog community of people who are stuck living life in the scientific mind. Sci is SO excited to be here, you guys!!! In fact, she’s so excited she’s going to express herself in verse. Her poetry may very well be the worst poetry in the universe […]
*sings, to the tune of “Oh god our help in ages past” Oh Tiktaalik, transitional form Our fav’rite pseudofish Thy stubby legs and half formed lungs Would make a tasty dish! Great Tiktaalik, make us believe ev’lution does take place where once you flapped upon the shores is a new amphibian race Dear Tiktaalik, we […]
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth. -Robert Frost Two roads diverged, and there I stood Trying fruitlessly to see ahead Tried to divine, as […]
There was a grad student of yore who had neither office nor door at his desk in the lab, students gathered to gab until he could stand it no more. All this chatting he could not abide for his writing he wished he could hide so when no one would leave he rolled up his […]
After Lunch I. After lunch, it creeps Death of my motivation the dread Food Coma II. The coma slips in Data wavers on the screen Just to close my eyes… III. No, foul sleepiness! I shall not submit! Hook up My caffeine i.v.!
I. the lab’s dismal air mourning your unborn paper alas, you’ve been scooped II. lab mates crowd around printed copies fly like birds try to find a flaw III. your data can’t die publish you must, or perish find a new angle
The following poem is dedicated to my labmate, post-doc, and colleague. You know who you are. Boom! How cruel my labmate yesterday Upon my computer screen played dance music, bad 80’s style “YOU BEEN RICKROLL’D!” he screamed. At first I laughed, ’twas no big thing And the dancing was funny and wry but now I […]
To dopamine I. O fair dopamine wondrous molecule, so cool even gets you high. II. Reward, punishment in dopamine highs and lows a complete package III. Tasty dopamine the umami of my brain why can’t you hate carbs? IV. Feel the pleasure and the pain, wrong motivation dopamine, habit V. “Neurotransmission” sad how these long […]