Today is Sci’s entry for this month’s CARNAL CARNIVAL. The month’s topic, as you may have guessed…is body odor. (Source) Ah, the big B.O. One of the things that people are by the most sensitive about in countries like the US. In fact, people have been busily covering any sign of their natural scent (and […]
Yeah, this is late. Sci’s STILL ILL (ARGH!!!) and also has a lot on her plate. But nothing holds back the blogging! I WILL GO ON. (My blog will go oooonnnnn…I swear I didn’t even LISTEN to that because the song sucks THAT MUCH. Bet I gave you an earworm, though!!) For today, I’d like […]
So three years ago now, Sci made a New Year’s Resolution to read 100 books in a year. That’s a book every three days. I was actually doing very well until I started a blog in the May of that year. That kind of tanked that project, though I still managed to read over 60 […]
I’m sure anyone who reads this blog is by now well aware of the many roles of oxytocin: In men, women, in sex, and especially in emotionally related things like pair bonding, trust, and facial recognition related to emotional states. People who just call oxytocin the “love molecule” don’t get the HALF of it. Oxytocin […]
Sci has noticed that a lot of scientists tend to listen to a lot of music or podcasts. Much as I’m sure we all KNOW that science is all glamor and cocaine and hookers and wild nights of crazy exciting science…yeah, let’s not lie. A lot of science is tedious, and a truly astonishing amount […]
Every so often, Sci comes across a study that at first looks incredibly exciting…and then kind of becomes a bit of a let down. Not because it was a BAD study, mind, but because I want MORE. Thus was this study. So let’s talk about high fat diets, and let’s talk about coke. But mostly […]
…no post today. Sci is sick. The good money is on strep. Will post when better.
We have a new Scientopian! (Scientopian always makes me think of aliens. source) Head over and say hello to Dr. Becca, who will be joining us with her blog “Fumbling Toward the Tenure Track”!
Head on over to Science of Blogging! Sci has a new post up there as of yesterday on some of the pros and cons of pseudonymity in science blogging. The short story: Pros: No death threats No harm to your research A cute name Cons: No trust Need to build up a reputation from scratch […]
I’ve written a bunch of posts in the past on serotonin, the serotonin theory of depression (and why it’s probably wrong), and some stuff on current antidepressant treatments. And I even talked before a little bit about the serotonin theory vs the BDNF theory. But I’ve never really COVERED what the BDNF theory IS and […]