What are Science Blogs good for, anyway?

There have been several posts on this over the past weekend (while I was off the planet, I don’t generally do a lot of blogging over the weekend), on what exactly science blogs are good for.  Science after Sunclipse started it (and Swans on Tea agreed), with a post about how you cannot get a [...]

Diabetes Insipidus as a Sequel to a Gunshot Wound of the Head

Weird Science AND Classic Science!  The Fridays continue! (unfortunately, I am working without Picasa right now due to the tragic death of my hard drive, so this post will be sadly without pictures.) Classic Science this definitely is, as well as a truly textbook case.  Even better, it reminds me of Phineas Gage!  What can I [...]

Notification

I have returned from out of the country.  Unfortunately, while I was gone, my hard drive chose to die.  The one I work on.  With all my data.  Which was not backed up fully because people bitch that my data files take up too much space.  I have lost the past year or so of [...]

Weird Science Friday REDUX

This was supposed to be Weird Science and Classic Science Friday.  Now it is still weird science and classic science Friday, it’s just redux.  This is because I lost the whole post due to problems switching between computers, and now I have to rewrite the whole thing.  Furthermore, the other computer that I’m currently stuck [...]

Depression Part 1 and Intro

I’ve been wanting to put together very long-researched post on how and whether antidepressants work, their mechanisms of action, and theories of clinical depression.  However, this post is going to be LONG, and unreadably so, so instead I’m going to start with little background tidbits: depression etiology, symptoms, etc (post 1).   Types of antidepressants, and [...]

Tangled Bank Is Up!

I got a post into the 107th edition of Tangled Bank, which is up at Syaffolee!  Check it out!  Lots of cool science, including studies on how big raindrops are, historical contigency in evolution (a new REALLY big finding in E. coli), and my own post on Angiotensin-(1-7)! 

Posts of the Day

Due to the fact that a lot of my own deeper posts require some extensive background reading, and that I have to fit that in along with the fifty million things I also have to do, I here present legwork that other people have already done.   First of all, I wanted to let people [...]

Weird Science: It’s Friday!

This is the first time I’m using the citations from researchblogging.org, and also the first time I’m trying to embed my own photos. We’ll see how it goes, and if there’s no success, I’ll be editing it until it’s right. A friend of mine sent me this article about a week ago, and I just [...]

HPV and Gardasil

HPV, and the vaccine Gardasil, have been in the news a lot lately.  A few weeks ago (yeah, I’m bad about getting to these), I received the following question: Disclaimer:  I’m not asking you to practice medicine.   What are your thoughts about Gardasil?  In your opinion, has it been thoroughly tested?  Are there side effects [...]

Cool Post Alert!

There’s a great post up at Neurophilosophy on a stage II clinical trial for antidepressants.  The drug, BCI-540, stimulate neuronal growth.  Right now it’s hypothesized that antidepressants work, not via direct serotonin increases in the brain (in the case of SSRIs), but my promoting growth of neurons in the brain over a long period of [...]