My illustrious coblogger already put up a New Year’s wish from both of us, but I simply had to add this one. There’s a big fake-o tree made of lights on the highway by my digs. It’s supposed to spell out “Joy Hope Peace Love Faith” or something to that effect. Some of the lights [...]
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So last year, about this time, I made a resolution. I resolved to read 100 books in a year. 100 books in 365 days, just a little under 1 book every three days. It was a hard challenge, but I felt (and still feel) that I need to be well-read person, and so I plugged [...]
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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 [...]
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…and it shall be called “stuff that Sci thinks is cool”. We can call it STSTIC (like ‘statistic’, only with misplaced letters, or maybe more like “Stastic…”) for short. Welcome to the first issue of “Stastic”, wherein Sci gets all Spastic and Ecstatic (SEE the combination now?!) about the things she missed on the blogsphere. [...]
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When I saw this article in the NY Times, I literally ignored everything else around me for about ten minutes straight. Working in drug abuse research (as I do), I get a lot of questions from people asking a) what they can do to get off drugs, b) how different drugs work, and c) why [...]
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I’m BACK! Finally, a return to wireless. Granted, I’m sitting in an airport, but that’s long enough to bang out a post, right? The real work can wait, my brain is still on vacation. I hope you all got what you wanted for the holidays, and that Santa left PhDs in your stockings, or tenure, [...]
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So this isn’t necessarily weird science, in that it’s not something so odd and out there you’d never see it. It’s more that the reason behind the phenomenon is a little funny. I’m at a time of life where all my friends are getting married. And once they get married, they start spawning. I’m a [...]
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‘Twas the night of experiments, and all through the lab All attention focused on the shape on the slab. All electrodes were strung outside to the air In hopes that some lightning soon would be there. The lab techs in their lab coats, and myself in mine Settled down with some coffee to wait for [...]
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I was very pleased when I received my first ever book from a reader! Granted, it was Mr. SiT, but still, I was pleased. It was a copy of “Welcome to your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life” by by Sandra Aamodt [...]
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I was GOING to write a really awesome sciency-post today. I was. But then I went to the lab, and then I had to prepare to go out of town, and then…ok, I’ll admit I spent about an hour of the time I should have been blogging reading Rowling’s “The Tales of Beadle the Bard”. [...]
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