Apparently more men are shaving their armpits. Apparently this is a “thing”. If it is a “thing”, I really hope it wasn’t brought into fashion by these guys: (You SHOW those shaved pits there, honey) Anyway, the question becomes…why shave your pits. It might interest you to know that humans have a relatively high amount […]
Well, at least, the only thing THESE birds have to fear is fear itself. This is one of those studies that, when you lay it out, seems really…simple. Clear layout. Clear results. But it challenges a lot of the things that we once assumed about predator:prey relationships. Most particularly, it overturns the idea that the […]
I saw this last week, and while the world may have moved on, I CANNOT let the ostrich penis rest. So now it is time to talk about the ostrich, and about the head of the ostrich that never gets buried in the sand, if you know what I mean. I mean, the debate was […]
In the wrapup of the recent Nobel ceremonies (always much less feted than the actual announcement of the winners, but there you go), there was a panel, talking to young scientists, from Nobel Prize winners, about what it takes to succeed (or at least to end up as a Nobel Prize winner). A write up […]
Society for Neuroscience meeting. Kayt and I hung out and I think she’s fantastic fun. Also, she gave me a tshirt.) My ears perked up when I first heard that there was a book coming out called “Dirty Minds”. I mean, it’s about neurobiology. And it’s about SEX. And the author had an ORGASM in […]
It started as a low rumble in my inbox on Monday. The venerable Ivan Oransky sent me a link to a new study “Laptops said to nuke sperm”. A small rumble on Monday, but that rumble was from Reuters, and pretty soon it was EVERYWHERE. The BBC, even YAHOO had something. The WI FI is […]
I was going to start with a brief Storify on this, but Storify is not being kind today. 🙁 Instead we start with one prophetic tweet: So a) is this true? Can people on clomipramine REALLY experience orgasms while yawning? And b) how the HECK does that work? I did a little digging, and I’ve […]
Sci is on a roll today you guys! Behold the first of Sunday’s SfN Neuroblogging, on a poster which examined glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptor responses to behavioral stress in week old baby neurons. Check it out over at Scientific American, and if you want to chat about it there or here, live it up!
The science of sumo wrestlers. What could be better? Now, you might look at these guys, and the LAST thing on your mind is their hands. Mostly you think they could probably crush you just by looking at you funny. And perhaps, if their HANDS are right, they could. Tamiya et al. “Second to fourth […]
Yup. Really piercing. I got today’s Friday Weird Science via Ivan Oransky. I don’t know WHERE he finds this stuff, but find it he does! When we think of Paleolithic humans, we often think of things like cave drawings, spearheads and artifacts. We think of stone tools and people hunting mammoths with spears. But it […]