…who is the fairest/funniest/raises the most for charity/has the cutest child/dog/cat/hamster/is best foodie/goes to the coolest places/the most popular of ALL? Duh! ME! (Hat tip to DNLee, who introduced me to this song. I LOVE this song.) Gonzales and Hancock. “Mirror, Mirror on my Facebook Wall: Effects of Exposure to Facebook on Self-Esteem” CYBERPSYCHOLOGY, BEHAVIOR, […]
Today is my second synchro-blogging of the week! When Laelaps showed me the video that went with this paper, and explained the concept…I was HOOKED. We had to blog it. It’s too good. It’s too GROSS. Just you wait. So we HAVE blogged it, and when you’re done reading this, go over to Laelaps and […]
Today’s post is actually a TANDEM post. I’m sharing posting on this piece today with the brilliant and totally cool Kate Clancy of Context and Variation. So once you’ve finished here, head over THERE for her half of the take on this paper. Kate showed me this paper, and I was immediately interested by the […]
Today’s Friday Weird Science comes to us courtesy of ProfLike Substance, who passed on this truly GLORIOUS paper to Sci many weeks ago. I’ve been dying to blog it for ages, but other things (like whale penises) seemed to always come up (you see what I did there) and required immediate blogging before someone else […]
Sci’s terrible at languages. TERRIBLE. In my time, I’ve successfully mastered English, and attempted to master four other languages (five if you count a brief foray into Elvish when I was 15, but that doesn’t really count) in my time. I have failed at ALL of them. Every once in a while I would achieve […]
Scientopia is proud to announce the launch of our brand new Guest Blog, where we recruit other bloggers to hang out for about two weeks at a time. The first post, by Paolo Viscardi of the Zygoma blog, is already up, and is a great tribute to Darwin Day! Go and check it out! We’ve […]
Dieting doesn’t work. No really, it doesn’t. Much as people like to talk about how the things they are sticking to are “lifestyle changes”, etc, a lot of them (but not all) are still diets, still ways of restricting your eating, and over 80{9f43b4361d9a125bc126dd2a2d1949be02545ec69880430bc4fed2272fd72da3} of them will fail. By fail, scientists mean that you will […]
There’s been a great conversation going on in the blogsphere over the past few days about blogging as a woman. I hear I’m a woman, so it’s rather natural that I’ve got some interest in this. One of the things I found particularly interesting is that people don’t seem to KNOW that female science bloggers […]
Sci’s not going to lie. I HATED math. Ok, Algebra I could handle, but Calculus? Let’s just say my GPA wasn’t high for a very good reason. And that reason was Calculus. Remembering the dusty lecture room with the plain white furniture and the feeling of fear every time I hear the words “Derivative” or […]
The Hermitage is here!!!! And OMG, so it Odyssey!! A huge welcome to our newest Scientopians! Go and check them out at The Hermitage and at Pondering Blather!