So I posted something the other day on bees and cell phones. The science in the paper itself wasn’t convincing to me, but the other references they pulled out in the discussion made me pull an about face. I thought, hey, maybe the electromagnetic field potentials from the cell phones ARE contributing to colony collapse […]
IMPORTANT NOTE: Sci was too credulous when she wrote this post. I have since seen the error, written a correction, and the result is up here. PLEASE GO THERE for the real story on bees and cell phones. Thanks, y’all! – a very ashamed Scicurious Sci has been really interested in the latest literature on […]
It all started with an innocent Tweet. Jennifer Ouellette (of the very fine Cocktail Party Physics blog and The Calculus Diaries fame), tweeted a link to this, a blog doing the history of electricity via inventions. The link was for the following device: That, my friends, is an electrical device designed to prevent horses from […]
…or rather, the visual system. Cause you can’t really talk about the optic nerve unless you talk about the rest of the eye along with it. We humans rely pretty heavily on vision as a species. At least, being able to see is a lot more important to our daily lives than, say, being able […]
Today’s post comes to us from the fabulous Allie Wilkinson, science journalist and blogger at “Oh, for the love of science!” When she told me she had a new paper on anogenital distance…well I had to see it. And when she said she had a VIDEO to go WITH…well it’s below the fold. Everyone give […]
Today’s is the first in a series of posts on the CRANIAL NERVES, the nerves that innervate a good chunk of your body, and which emerge DIRECTLY from your brain. We’re going in order from the “front” of the brain, “brackward”. So today’s post is about the cranial nerve that’s the closest to your face, […]
YES, FOLKS! We have a new guest blogger over at the Scientopia Guest Blog! Please go and welcome Scientist Mother, a fantastic blogger on life and science and raising her own experiments. 🙂
Ok, really today’s post isn’t about that. But it’s definitely the one major thing I took away from this paper. This post is actually about the effects of cell phones on semen. But refer to your semen as “neat” once, and well, it sticks with you. (These scientists like their semen the way they like […]
Sci has been intending to do one of these posts for a while. I seem to spend ages talking about neurons, synapses, action potentials, connections, neurotransmitters, and different brain areas. But for all that, a lot of people don’t really know what a neuron looks like and where the connections are taking place. So it’s […]
When we think of demographics that are easily distracted, we tend to think of younger generations, people on their phones over dinner or texting while driving, or only listening to you with one ear while they listen to their ipod with the other. But when we’re talking about cognitive tasks like working memory, the ability […]