You may not think of our flesh-eating diseased brethren as being the thoughtful types. Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t. As Sci mentioned, I’m gonna be holed up in the Costco for a while so I got time to think about it. They’re the slow-moving-undead zombies, not those ultra-quick “infected” (I hate those creepy bastards). [...]
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OMG ZOMBIE POST!!! Let’s all pause and contemplate how awesome I look as a zombie. I DO love brains. Very much. OM NOM NOM. So Sci was thinking about what to post for Zombie Day. She thought about wondering if dogs could sniff early stage zombie infection and thus help with quarantine. She thought about [...]
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AND HERE IT IS! THE AWESOMENESS WE’VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR!!! BEHOLD! ZOMBIE DAY!!!! All we SciBlings want to do is eat your brains Sci loves Jonathan Coulton WAY too much. So you might ask, where did this come from? Well, the other day, Sci was talking to Pal. And we were talking about how [...]
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Sci has something rather big brewing for tomorrow. Really rather large. In fact, it’s SO large, that…ok she could have posted today. In fact, she was going to. But then she thought about science LOLcats and how AWESOME they would be…and… Well here you go. Sure I’m busy! I’m doing ‘research’. And then I got [...]
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First off, Sci would like to extend a pleased and blushing THANK YOU!! to all the people who voted for her in the Three Quarks Daily Contest. We’re in the top 20!!! I’m so thrilled by all the love. And by the fact that hyena mating is CLEARLY some sweet stuff. Well, of course it [...]
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…and things to think. First off, a big welcome to the newest SciBling, Maryn of Superbug!! Always great to have someone else on board for the cool diseases. Secondly, Sci’s tattoo has been featured in the bibliography of academic tattoos at the Fashionable Academics! Go over and check out the other stuff, there’s some lovely [...]
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Sci’s not a poet And she knows it. Ok, but for today. There once was a cool science website Who once yearly chose to invite All bloggers far and near To submit blog posts here To pick one that is most best and bright. So Sci did submit to their list A post of weird [...]
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We all have different ways of celebrating big milestones, like getting a PhD. Some people pop open the champagne. Some people (the really, really LUCKY people) get to take a few weeks off and recover. But for those of us who can do neither, well…Sci got a tattoo! And you all want to know what [...]
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Blogging has truly made Sci famous this day! Her parents have been waiting for it for years. Every time Sci says “Hey Sci-Mom, I won an award”, or “Hey Sci-Mom, I got a link in the NY Times” or “Hey Sci-Mom, Sci is awesome!!!”, Sci-Mom will sigh and say, “yes, dear, but is it in [...]
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My Dearest Pubmed, You and I have always had our ups and downs, like that time when you were down for 24 hours for NO REASON AT ALL, and the times when you return me hilarious responses to my admittedly rather silly searches (like the time I puts “peeps” into pubmed. Try it sometime). But [...]
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