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The Evil Monkey has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from a southeastern U.S. university. After a postdoctoral nightmare of Inquisitorial proportions, he is currently working in a laboratory and an adjunct assistant professor at a nearby state university.
Scicurious is a graduate student wrestling with a PhD in Physiology at a southern institution. She is a nerd, a geek, and also a dork. And yes, that really is her brain.
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December 31, 2008
Category: Synaptic Misfires
My illustrious coblogger already put up a New Year's wish from both of us, but I simply had to add this one. There's a big fake-o tree made of lights on the highway by my digs. It's supposed to spell...
Posted by Evil Monkey at 10:32 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Synaptic Misfires
So last year, about this time, I made a resolution. I resolved to read 100 books in a year. 100 books in 365 days, just a little under 1 book every three days. It was a hard challenge, but I...
Posted by Scicurious at 7:33 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
To all the people who read Neurotopia, and too all the people who don't, too. This year's been crazy for the two of us (it makes Evil there go a little insane, then he starts talking to himself, and we...
Posted by Scicurious at 12:15 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 30, 2008
Category: Blog Carnivals
...and it shall be called "stuff that Sci thinks is cool". We can call it STSTIC (like 'statistic', only with misplaced letters, or maybe more like "Stastic...") for short. Welcome to the first issue of "Stastic", wherein Sci gets all...
Posted by Scicurious at 7:20 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Addiction
When I saw this article in the NY Times, I literally ignored everything else around me for about ten minutes straight. Working in drug abuse research (as I do), I get a lot of questions from people asking a) what...
Posted by Scicurious at 7:58 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 29, 2008
Category: Physiology/Pharmacology
I'm BACK! Finally, a return to wireless. Granted, I'm sitting in an airport, but that's long enough to bang out a post, right? The real work can wait, my brain is still on vacation. I hope you all got what...
Posted by Scicurious at 1:12 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 26, 2008
Category: Friday Weird Science
So this isn't necessarily weird science, in that it's not something so odd and out there you'd never see it. It's more that the reason behind the phenomenon is a little funny. I'm at a time of life where all...
Posted by Scicurious at 12:05 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 24, 2008
Category: Synaptic Misfires
'Twas the night of experiments, and all through the lab All attention focused on the shape on the slab. All electrodes were strung outside to the air In hopes that some lightning soon would be there. The lab techs in...
Posted by Scicurious at 7:09 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 23, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
I was very pleased when I received my first ever book from a reader! Granted, it was Mr. SiT, but still, I was pleased. It was a copy of "Welcome to your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys but...
Posted by Scicurious at 7:30 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 22, 2008
Category: Synaptic Misfires
I was GOING to write a really awesome sciency-post today. I was. But then I went to the lab, and then I had to prepare to go out of town, and then...ok, I'll admit I spent about an hour of...
Posted by Scicurious at 1:46 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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