All animals used in the present study were already found dead (road-killed), and therefore an ethic approval is not required. You know, sometimes I see a study (this one was tweeted around a few weeks ago), and you just sit and wonder WHY. Why did scientists DO this study, why was it necessary? What is […]
Sci is SO EXCITED! I’m going to be at the IgNobel prizes this week, on Thursday night, blogging my little hands off on all the latest weird stuff! I’ll be doing it at SciAm, so please head over to my blog there, where we’ll be having a live tweet stream and a live feed of […]
This awesome paper on “sneaker squid” made headlines a few weeks ago. And so it should! I mean, SNEAKER SQUID? Heeeeehehehehe. Not only that, it’s got SPERM. Obviously I must blog this. Iwata et al. “Why small squid have big sperm: dimorphic squid sperm linked to alternative mating behaviors” BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2011. And of […]
Greg Laden pointed me to this paper the other day. He’s got a write up of it on his blog from an anthropological point of view, and Wired and the Mary Sue both covered the story (though amusingly the Mary Sue reported that only 1 in 10 women COULD orgasm, when in fact it’s the […]
Sci is at SciAm today, looking in depth at this latest paper on probiotics and the behavior of mice. I think the results are promising, but I’m not relying on yogurt to allay my anxieties just yet. If you are interested in what you read, but don’t want to register, you are welcome to comment […]
Today is a fun day here for humor. Stephanie Zvan, newly of Freethought blogs, and I, will be talking about the same paper. We both took away some different things from it, for different reasons, and I think the two posts will give you a really good idea of just how…bad…this paper really is. So […]
I’m guesting over at Janet’s Scientific American place today. Someone went and called her the “Dr. Seuss” of science policy. And when I heard that, well, I couldn’t help myself. The sun did not shine In the laboratory that day as we sat with our gels watching bands slide away I sat there with Sally […]
Man our Guest Blog stints go by quick! It’s now time for new peeps on the Guest Blog, and this time we have Inktopia and Suburban Stone Age! Inktopia is a bit of a departure for us, studying American Lit after the Civil War, but we could also use some smart and funny commentary on […]
Or at least, PARTIALLY in your head. Not all. 🙂 I’m over at SciAm today talking about the role of the brain in muscle fatigue. Check it out!
Two things: 1) Sorry for the recent Scientopia outages! There are some technical problems with a n00b like myself does not understand. But we’re back now! I posted my Friday Weird Science over at Scientific American, where you can read about what happens if you eat too many carrots (really!). 2) Due to recent events […]