Hi all! I wanted to take a moment say hello, and say how honored I am to join Sci and Evil here at Neurotopia. Some of you may know me as Jake Young formerly of the Pure Pedantry blog. Some of you, I may be writing to for the first time. In either case, I […]

I think I hit the wrong thing when trying to install a rotating blogroll, so Neurotopia may look like base model Movable Type template for a while. My apologies…

The russian spambot Cockroach of the internet Squish it, and it laughs No one could comment We have given in, reset filter back to 1. Someone set that bot’s computer on fire for me! I’ll love you always!

All ye who comment We moved spam filter to 2 Damn russian spambots Is your fine comment, Insightful and wise, held up? Tell Sci, she will fix. ——————————————- April foolery Beware the dinochickens! Wish I thought of it.

So I’m sure you’ve all heard by now that, in Obama’s inauguration speech, he spoke of putting science “back in its rightful place”. Since then, Seed, our Benevolent Overlords ™, has started the Rightful Place Project, and has asked all of us what IS the rightful place of science. It’s taken Sci a little while […]

Testing…testing… Unlike other bloggers who apparently sat in corners with their laptops, rocking back and forth and hitting refresh over and over again, Sci only did that a FEW times (and it’s really only because she’s sadly addicted to things like her email). More importantly, Sci spent her weekend with Mr. SiT, building her very […]

To all the people who read Neurotopia, and too all the people who don’t, too. This year’s been crazy for the two of us (it makes Evil there go a little insane, then he starts talking to himself, and we all know what that’s like…), but it’s been good for a lot of things. After […]

Although all entries were required to be submitted on Dec. 18th, the REAL birthday of PLoS ONE is today, Dec. 20. Bloggers were asked to submit entries based on articles from PLoS ONE, and the entries would be judged. And guess what?! SCICURIOUS FOR THE WIN!!! Seriously, I’m so pleased that the judges thought my […]

I already wrote one entry for PLoS ONE’s second birthday, but I’m feeling sparky today, and I think I like this paper better. I don’t know about you guys, but when I was a sprog, my parents dragged me to music lessons. LOTS of music lessons. As of right now, I have been producing music […]

I’m sure everyone has heard by now about the commentary that appeared in Nature on use of stimulants as cognitive enhancers. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a chance to read the commentary myself until this weekend, when I curled up (at the lab, no rest for the grad student) with a cup of delicious coffee, some […]