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19 Jul 2010 at 6:22 pm

I'm putting this post under "education" because I define a new term at the end of it. Which, of course, qualifies it to be educational.

By now you've probably picked up on the Sexiest Female Scientist list being passed around by some atheist guy, so I won't bother to link to it and drive up the turd's traffic. I will, however, give my quick 2 cents on this particular brand of sexism.

Sheril

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7th graders discover scientists are just like everybody else

12 Jul 2010 at 5:21 pm

Even kids in jr high can figure out that we've been spoon-fed some misconceptions of how scientists look and act. I wonder where they get these ideas from. Certainly not the media. They would never create caricatures of real people.

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My Official Farewell

7 Jul 2010 at 4:42 pm

Sci has just tendered her letter of resignation to the Overlords at SEED. This was a very, very hard decision, and it hurts Sci more than she can say. Sci would like to let you know, though, that she hasn't given up blogging!!! She has merely moved back to her old digs. You can find her at Neurotic Physiology, her old place. Please do drop by and visit!

As for my reasons, well, I just want

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I'm afraid I've been thinking

7 Jul 2010 at 1:56 am

A dangerous pastime, you know.

If you've been around the blog for the past day, I'm sure you've seen that there's been a new...blog...from PepsiCo. Sci's not sure what she thinks of it, but it's not positive. I know we had GE and Shell and stuff...but that felt different, somehow. Being as Sci has recently been looking in to a lot of food and reward related mechanisms and issues associated w

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Is that MY voice? OHwell

6 Jul 2010 at 12:09 pm

I tried to find a video of the Emperor's New Groove where Yzma gets turned into a cat and it's hilarious and adorable. But all I could find were fandubs, most of which were terrible. Why the heck do people make versions of this stuff and put it out there on the internet! It's a big "hey everyone, look at me and how I wasted my time!" Except less cool than that.

Anyway.

A week or so ago, Tr

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The Return of the Who are You Thread

6 Jul 2010 at 10:34 am

...The return of the bride of the who are you thread? The return of the son of the who are you thread? The bride of the son of the twice removed cousin of the thread...

Anyway, I saw this meme over at Drugmonkey, and again at Not Exactly Rocket Science, and decided it would be cool to see...who is watching me. Last year's results helped me a little bit in terms of how I write (they don't chang

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Prozac, Ritalin, Cognitive Enhancement, and the power of a snappy title

5 Jul 2010 at 1:34 am

Let it be known that Sci, like many a young, bright-eyed little scientist, tries to keep up on her reading. TRIES is the operative word, but every week Sci gets the Tables of Contents for all the major journals in her field (and all the major ones in her subdisciple) emailed straight to her for her perusal. She scans the title lists, searching for things that are cool in her field, cool to blog,

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Friday Weird Science: Fibransin and the "problem" of female sex drive

2 Jul 2010 at 1:15 am

Sci was toddling around the internet recently (as is her wont), when she came across the work of Dr. Petra. If you're in to learning about sex, sex education, and everything else from a scientific point of view, Sci highly recommends Dr. Petra. This is a blogger who tells it like it is.

(Sci also just found out that Seed has a current article on humans as some very sexy beasts. Sci is suitab

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Zombies get philosophical

1 Jul 2010 at 2:46 pm

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). I rolled down those big steel doors, barricaded them with anything

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Zombies and Cannibalism: the spread of an epidemic

1 Jul 2010 at 7:03 am

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 whether or not grocery stores would be a good place to hide, but Evil assured her that

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SCIENCEBLOGS ZOMBIE DAY!!!

1 Jul 2010 at 5:26 am

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 many depressing things were going on in the world at large and didn't that suck. And then Pal sai

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Mooney Kerfluffle redux, or How Science Journalists Don't Get What The Averag...

30 Jun 2010 at 5:40 pm

Chad at Uncertain Principles wonders what the kerfluffle is with Chris Mooney. Chris wrote an Op-ed in the WaPo that summarizes this AAAS article. My last post was directed at the Op-ed, which was pedantic and useless, if not counterproductive. The AAAS article has decent recommendations that will never do what he hopes they will do, for reasons outlined below.

As a side note- I think most

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The LOLcats of Science

30 Jun 2010 at 2:46 am

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 excited...

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Rheumatoid Arthritis and the Cell Cycle

28 Jun 2010 at 1:19 am

This is a paper in which Sci has a certain amount of personal investment. You see, Sci has a family member who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis. And when I say suffer, I mean she suffers terribly. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease where you own body attacks the lining of the membranes between your joints. The result is painful swelling and stiffness (arthritis) which usually affec

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A simple way to get the antiscience crowd to come around?

27 Jun 2010 at 1:58 pm

Chris Mooney- a man with his heart in the right place and absolutely no idea what do do after that. Don't get me wrong, I like the guy. He's a force for good when dissecting a scientific issue for the public. But Mooney has been trucking out this same "communication" bullshit for a few years now. As usual, nothing much is offered other than "listen to them". I agree, communication is importan

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