Lab Spaces has some great topic ideas sometimes. This week’s (month’s?) is “Things I wish I knew when…”. And I would like to tell you about the thing I did end up knowing. I have passed it on to successive generations, and they tell me that verily, it is the word of truth, righteousness, and […]
Some of you may remember that Sci has recently graduated and become a post-doc! She’s very pleased with her new surroundings, but has a question for the masses: how comfy should one make one’s office space? See, Sci spends a lot of time in the office. Right now, not TOO much, but come grant deadline […]
Well, it looks like the move to a new server is ALMOST complete (if you can see this, we’ve thrown the switch!). Sci’s on another newish blog setup, and she thinks she’s got it almost as shiny as the old. But there is one thing totally awesome. Over there on the sidebar to the right, […]
As you all may have head from the other peeps around here at Scientopia, we are suffering some server issues. 🙁 Hopefully this shall be worked out soon, but until then, we are having to disable comments. Sci loves her readers and this breaks her soft little heart, but hopefully we shall be back at […]
The things I miss when I go away… Abel Pharmboy and his awesome pharmacology blog Terra Sigillata have MOVED to an awesome new spot at Chemical and Engineering News, to a blog which will be hosted by C&EN, the newsletter of the American Chemical Society. Sci is a proud member of ACS, and is totally […]
You all may remember when a certain political candidate made a comment concerning fruit fly research. It seemed like half the world reacted with “yeah, fruit fly research is dumb! Let’s cure cancer!” while the other half went “hey, I think that’s probably important…” and tried to come up with examples. And while we’ve obviously […]
It’s electric. (Sci would like to note that she does a GREAT Electric Slide. I am quite the hit at weddings.) Action potentials are special to me. They are special to me because action potentials are what got me into science in the first place. Well, ok, they didn’t really get me in to science. […]
Sci has officially returned from vacation! I wish I could say I was glad to be back…but…well…I mean, I did miss you all, but Sci has spent the last few days recovering from her vacation, and some of it was spent feeling like this (I love hungover owls, they satisfy almost all of my humor […]
It seems, from the time I first heard about it, there’s been an eternal flare-up about Ritalin, and its similar counterparts, including things like Concerta and Tranquillyn. Issues with who should get it, who HAS attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), whether or not ADHD is is even a real diagnosis. Issues about whether people who DON’T have […]
On request from several people, I am here reposting my post that I wrote on cocaine way when I was but a little blogging larvae. I think now I have passed the pupa (SB move!) and Chrysallis stage (the dissertation, and have emerged as a lovely blogging butterfly. My color scheme is lovely, I assure […]