The other title of this post is “what happens when you leave a guy alone on a desert island for a few weeks”, and the other OTHER title of this post is “people who are obsessive enough to measure their body hair”. But what, you may ask, is the real title of the PAPER? Anonymous. [...]
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How I deal with the pacing of my lectures. Dirty tricks included.
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About a week ago, a prof in my MRU loaned me a book he’d just read, saying it would be right up my alley. He was very right. I couldn’t put it down. It’s already changed a great deal about the way that I think about addiction, as well as the way I think about [...]
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Actually, I would like to dedicate this post to the lovely Stephanie Zvan of Almost Diamonds. This is because Stephanie recently sent Sci her blogging muse: an entire box of dark chocolate Moose Munch!!!!!! Moose Munch is indeed Sci’s muse, and could not have come at a better time. Stephanie Zvan is awesome for any [...]
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Every so often, Sci wishes she had a life outside the lab. So then Mr. SiT takes her away from it all for a weekend. This is super fabulous, and Sci has a wonderful time, coming back refreshed and rejeuvenated to… …her overflowing email …her hungry cat …her overflowing desk …etc and in the heat [...]
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Welcome to depression post three! Previously I covered the symptoms and etiology of depression, and some of the most common antidepressant medications and how they work. Now I’d like to go into some of the research behind it. After all, it’s not like we just grab a depressed person and say “here, take this and [...]
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This is another post along the lines of the odd things that get off certain members of the humans species. I’m sure some of us wish we were these people, but in some cases (like this one), it’s not a fortunate as you might suppose. Chuang, et al. “Tooth-brushing epilepsy with ictal orgasms”. Seizure, 2004, [...]
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When Sci gets in a parody-ing mood, all sorts of things come out. Evil things. Things like this. I blame Isis for what is about to follow. Her love of Spears is well-known, though I imagine the goddess will never have to plead for funding in this manner.
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You know that huge “25 things” meme going around Facebook? I hate those things. I’ve got something like 20 notes now that have me “tagged”. I kind of want to fill it out, and it would look something like this: 1) I hate memes 2) I really hate memes where people try too hard to [...]
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In my previous depression post, I talked about the symptoms and characterization of depression. In this one, I want to talk about what’s out there to treat it.
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