Welcome to my post on the Women’s Health Writeup! I at first didn’t see much I could do in this article on cheating (is fidelity obsolete?), but the more I read, the more I saw to write. Sci isn’t an ethicist or sociologist and thus cannot really comment on the question of cheating in those […]
Sci saw this paper. She’s going to start with some caveats. She thinks the paper is cool. BUT, it appears to be one of those papers that is HIGHLY subject to overinterpretation and possible panic. So Don’t Panic. And now we’re going to talk about oxytocin. And parenting. In humans. It ain’t just for voles […]
Think about the poor grad student or lab tech who, in a huge sacrifice to science, took a whole bunch of rats, every week, and watched them mate. Every week. Watching rats mate. With a stopwatch.
This post brought to you by Ben and Jerry’s Dublin Mudslide Ice Cream. Because the Twitter people are like little devils on my shoulder, making me eat the cake… So Sci was going to do her final oxytocin post on another study in humans for oxytocin levels during male masturbation, but you know, you’ve seen […]
And now Sci can finally get down to writing the hefty post in the oxytocin series, what she likes to call the effects on the soft stuff. The emotions, memory, trust, that kind of thing. She didn’t know if she’d make it, for verily, this little grad student hath earned her ramen this day in […]
Sci will be honest. The migraine continues apace. But the oxytocin, it must be blogged. And the migraine medication, it makes Sci loopy! Given what I’ll be blogging today, that might not be a bad thing… I’ve already gone through some of the basics of oxytocin, and the famous effects that oxytocin has on females. […]
Rounding out Sci’s first week of the Great Oxytocin Posting of 2009 (oh yes, there will be two weeks of this, hang tight), we’ve gotta do something weird. And luckily for everyone, oxytocin does lend itself to the strange types of studies. Like multi-orgasmic studies. Complete with measurements of anal contraction. You know you wanna […]
Previously I posted on the general features of oxytocin, what it acts on, and where it basically acts, and what it’s mostly known for. But the reality is that oxytocin is a LOT more complicated than that, and has different effects of your body and your behavior, depending on who you are. It varies from […]
So sometimes, Sci gets questions, and sometimes those questions…are close enough to requests. And so, today Sci will begin what is probably going to be an extensive basic series on oxytocin. We ALL love oxytocin, right? Right! And we all missed Sci’s big honkin’ basic science posts right? Of course right! So the question basically […]
As a taste of things to come. 🙂 For your Friday Weird Science, I present to you a Poem! And I shall call it “Prairie Voles in Love: An Ode to Oxytocin” Out on the lonely prairie, gazing at the stars above I saw through the night the wondrous sight Of prairie voles in love […]