Three Quarks Daily Finalists, Yay!

Thanks SO much to everyone who voted Sci into the semifinals! I have made it to the finals with my post for the Scientific American Guest Blog “Serotonin and Sexual Preference: Is it really that simple?” (Though in the finalists post, serotonin is misspelled…oh well). Just wanted to say thank you to everyone, it’s so […]

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If you walk over a bed of hot coals, your mom might be worried about you. It’s science.

Sci has to say she’d have LOVED to take the data for this study. Get to go to Spain, hang out, put some heart monitors on people and watch some fire walking…sounds like a good time. Much more glamorous than my own daily life in the lab. Can I get a little glamour around here? […]

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Friday Weird Science’s Fightin’ Fish: Is an antidepressant making your grumpy guppies zen?

I thought of making this a normal science, but really it’s just too weird for that. I mean, what happens when you combine this: (Source) and this? (Source) Well…so far, probably nothing. But wouldn’t it be fun to watch them fight… Holmberg et al. “Does waterborne citalopram affect the aggressive and sexual behaviour of rainbow […]

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Vote for Sci???

Sci got nominated (ok, I was a loser and nominated myself) for the 3 Quarks Daily Prize in Science. Voting is now open until June 11, and if you like Sci’s post, I surely would appreciate a little voting love! The post is a guest post I wrote at the Scientific American Guest Blog on […]

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Plz welcome Nat Blair to the Guest Blogge!

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 […]

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SCIENCE 101: Cranial Nerves IV and VI, the Trochlear Nerve and Abducens Nerve

Today we continue ONWARD with the series on the Cranial Nerves. But we’re doing something a little different. Because last time we covered the Oculomotor Nerve, which innervates FOUR of the SIX muscles which control the eye, today we’re going to round out the eye (heh, round, eye, heh) and do the other TWO. But […]

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Friday Weird Science: Is that a Cell Phone in your Pocket or are you just happy to see me?

Ever since doing a couple of pieces of cell phones and things like sperm, I’ve become curious about what other studies have been done on the effects of cell phone use and keeping a small, highly addictive electronic object on your person (even though, sometimes, I end up very wrong). Not surprisingly, there’s a large […]

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