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OMG NEW BLOGZ
9 Mar 2010 at 12:43 amSo in all the fuss of...everything, I forgot to notify people about some awesome new blogz!
Today's post brought to you by the letter O.
O yeah.
First up, we have the recently joined Scienceblogs Oscillator, who I was first introduced to when she and her friends did this:
(*sings* "I'll wear a gloooooove, glove glove glove, I'll wear a glooooove")
It's AWESOME. I LOVE IT. I want to be IN
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Basics: Guest Post 1: Male Reproductive Anatomy
8 Mar 2010 at 12:00 amSci may have hinted that there were guest posts coming up in the near future. After that long series on female reproductive anatomy, Sci thought it would only be fair to let the dudes have some information as well. Unfortunately, Sci's knowledge of the male reproductive system is related almost entirely to hilarious things like bicycle accidents and pens, and so she had to turn to someone a litt
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Vote for me! Vote for me!
5 Mar 2010 at 1:13 pmResearchBlogging Awards 2010
Neurotopia has been nominated for best neuroscience blog! And the voting's now open! So head on over and VOTE (I think you have to register first)! There are some great blogs up there in a lot of really great categories!! So let the voting commence, and may the best science blogs win crazy amounts of boasting rights.
Read the comments on this post...
Friday Weird Science: Do Your Balls Hang Low?
5 Mar 2010 at 12:48 amSci came across this abstract via NCBI ROFL, the aggregation site with some truly hilarious studies on it, many of them worthy Friday Weird Science materials. And of course this one is EXTRA worthy. It's from the Journal of Medical Hypotheses. Wither Weird Science, Medical Hypotheses, but for thee?
So, coming up into this next week, Sci is proud to announce an awesome series of guest posts. S
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Basics Set: Female Reproduction, Part 5. Aaaaaand, BABIES
4 Mar 2010 at 12:18 amHello and welcome to this hopefully last installment (before I get to the paper that I want to cover about female reproduction, which may not be able to happen for a bit) on female reproduction!. Previous sets have covered the anatomy, the menstrual cycle, the effects of oral contraceptives, and fertilization and implantation. Now, we get to pregnancy.
And dangit, I used up all my good pics i
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Emer-Itis
3 Mar 2010 at 3:28 pmSci is working on about 3.5 hours of sleep right now. This makes her extremely punchy and odd. and possibly slightly crazy. And thus, she may not have been able to help herself in seminar today, and let out a very unlady-like snort in response to the following:
Introducer guy: I am happy to introduce Dr. Super Impressive Dude, Professor Emer-ITIS at Super Hot Uni...
"Emer-ITIS"?
I suppose Int
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Open Lab 2009 Reviews!
2 Mar 2010 at 12:23 amThe first Open Lab 2009 review is up over at Sciblogs! Sci was amused that the reviewer notes that editor (editress? editrix?) is listed by her pseud, but agrees that it's all part of the blog experience. :)
The reviewer, Grant Jacobs, follows with a hopefully representative list of some of the posts in the book, calling Dr. Jekyll's Breatstatistics "delightfully tongue in cheek", calls Ambiva
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More on Animal Research
1 Mar 2010 at 10:27 amThe website Speaking of Research, a site devoted to spreading accurate information about the uses and benefits of animal research, has put part of my previous post on their site (no worries, they had permission). They have also put up a great aggregate of the recent posts from the science blogging community on animal research. Sci thinks it's very sad that all of this had to arise from the nasty
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Basics Set: Female Reproduction Part 4, The Reproduction Bit
1 Mar 2010 at 12:09 amAnd we're back with part 4 of Sci's brand spanking new series on female reproduction!! This one's going to be a whopper, fertilization and pregnancy is a lot to cover, and so it will be very basic and divided into two posts, though less basic than the "baby in your tummy" bit that Sci learned when she was small.
(Sci had this book when she was small. It made her very popular with the local kid
OMG AWARDZ
27 Feb 2010 at 12:37 amSo the first ever Research Blogging Award Nominees are up! There are some great nominees up there for lots of topics, but Sci doesn't want to tell you who to vote for because that would be biased and evil.
Oh, I'll do it once.
Vote for me!!
Research Blogging Awards 2010 Finalist
Neurotopia is nominated in the neuroscience category (I can't believe we weren't nominated for funniest...maybe n
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Friday Weird Science: Doing your Kegels to Improve your Orgasms
26 Feb 2010 at 12:22 amMany of you may have heard from your doctor that doing Kegels is a good thing. It's certainly good for keeping your pelvic floor strong, to prevent problems like uterine prolapse following birth. It's also very good for keeping your bladder good and functional later in life. So do your Kegels, ladies.
However, Sci has always heard through the grapevine that Kegels were also good for...other th
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On Animal Research
25 Feb 2010 at 12:16 amRecently, one of my beloved SciBlings, Janet, was one of the speakers at a UCLA Dialogue on the ethics of animals in research. Although I was more than a little afraid for her (of course her name, address, email, and phone were instantly posted all over the activists websites), but Sci's fears turned out unfounded and the dialogue apparently went off very well. You can see a full video here. Eve
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Basic Set: Female Reproduction 3, Oral Contraceptives
24 Feb 2010 at 12:40 amContinuing in our vein of basic science posts on female reproduction, we're going to take a bit of an aside (and this is VERY relevant for the paper that Sci wanted to blog about that needed so much background). We've covered the basic anatomy, the hormones, and the monthly cycle. But what about...when you don't want to ovulate?
What about oral contraceptives?
Of course, they aren't all oral a
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IT'S HERE!!!!! THE OPEN LABORATORY!!!!
23 Feb 2010 at 12:00 pmDuh nuh...
Duh nuh, duh nuh....
Duh nuh, duh nuh, Duh nuh, duh nuh, Duh nuh, duh nuh, Duhnuh, duhnuh, Duhnuh, duhnuh...
IT'S HERE!!!!
IT'S ALIVEEEEE!!!!
IT'S OPEN LAB!!!!
YES! It's out. Finally. After a great deal of toil and a certain amount of lateness. Also stress. And there was very little sleep.
You can buy it HERE!
Buy one for yourself! Buy for your friends! Buy one for
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Odds and Ends
23 Feb 2010 at 10:47 am1) There is something happening. News at noon! High noon. Be prepared!!
Duh nuh...
2) PZ Myers put up a video on the cocksure female hyena. I love the dramatic music and the flashing of clouds across the sky. *deep, British, threatening voice* "Some females want to beat males at their own game...and they take them on, every step of the way..."
Ok, I gotta post it...
"This is the QUEEN
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