I think @vaughanbell described it best with this Tweet: @scicurious @edyong209 One of the few studies where you don’t want to hear the words “We’ve made a breakthrough” And with that…I HAD to blog it. Garvin et al. “Cortical and spinal evoked potential response to electrical stimulation in human rectum.” World Journal of Gastroenterology, 2010. […]
Sci got an email the other day. Ok, I get lots of emails, but this one asked a cool question, which is always nice. All it asked for was an opinion on an article in Scientific American: “Get Better at Math By Disrupting your Brain“. Sci looked. Was intrigued. Read the actual paper…and found the […]
Sci usually blogs about things related to health, being a biomedical scientist as she is. But this, this is AWESOME. COMPLETELY AWESOME. It’s people. Tossing snakes. From towers. And it made me think so forcibly of the Snake Fight Portion of One’s Thesis Defense (which is brilliant and should be required reading for every grad […]
Otherwise known as Cracked’s “6 Animals that just don’t give a F***” I linked this on Twitter, but it’s JUST SO AWESOME. I am going to watch this mongoose video every time I feel blue: From the article: On the one hand, you’ve got the very emblem of evil and sin — a scaled, wriggling […]
Yesterday I was out with my running group, and chatting with an acquaintance. She was saying that someone at her office had accused her of “eating her feelings” when she was stressed. Her: She accused me of eating my feelings! I’m kind of upset she would say that…so I had a cookie, and then a […]
Sci hasn’t had a lot of access to internets over the past few days, but others have! Drugmonkey posts a lovely post thanking us all for blogging! Thank you for YOU, DM. 🙂 Zuska has a post on being thankful for neurologists. And Leigh has a wonderful post up on Thankfulness. Hope everyone who celebrates […]
So I tried to get access to this paper when everyone ELSE had access to the press release, because I totally wanted it, but Sci doesn’t get press releases (I did try to get press releases, but one publishing group cited what I feel is a totally justified potential conflict of interest due to Sci […]
I’m not the only one who’s thankful around here! Dorothea is thankful for her iMac (having just got one…I actually agree. I never thought I would say that…). She is also thankful for Heather Joseph. Heather Joseph never, ever, ever makes that mistake. She tells the straight story, don’t get me wrong, but she’s got […]
As some of you might be aware, American Thanksgiving is coming up. Sci generally prefers to focus on the family aspect, and of course on the delicious and awesomely vast quantities of food. But she ALSO would like to focus on things that we are Thankful For. And to that end, she asked the talented […]
Who’d have thought we’d have gotten all this way in science and never studied whether money can buy happiness? Well, in fact, this HAS been studied, but the results have almost always been inconclusive. This probably has a lot to do with how it’s being studied, what ranges of monetary income you’re talking about, and […]