I read this article in which a scientist claims that only 10% of the cells in our body are human. The rest are supposedly bacteria, fungi, and other wee colonizers, many of which live in some sort of [...] read the complete entry »
Remember when your tongue was all about sweet, sour, bitter, and salty?
Then came umami.
Now calcium has its own taste. That’s right, selfish, selfish calcium has a whole taste all to itself. I wonder what they’re going to [...] read the complete entry »
I am running late because I spent too much time on this site.
My nerdiness knows no bounds.
Joss Whedon geekery set to music. Doogie Howser plays an evil genius and Nathan Fillion eats fro-yo while wearing superhero gloves.
Is there a reason why William Saletan of Slate still has a job? He’s not a particularly original thinker about science, as his spectacular naïveté about race and intelligence recently illustrated, and he does a meh job of [...] read the complete entry »
Oh, thank the Jesus.
“Study: Bottling Up Emotions Can Be Better”
Seery points out that immediately after last year’s tragic shootings at Virginia Tech University there were many “talking head” psychiatrists in the media describing how important it was to get the
I find it interesting that the U.S. media seem to be ignoring this story:
“Boys not better than girls at maths, study finds”from guardian.co.uk
Check out the part where it says that, in more gender-egalitarian societies, girls outperform boys on [...] read the complete entry »
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