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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.
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January 30, 2009
Category: Friday Weird Science
For most people in the world, a really satisfactory bowel movement feels...good. The relief, the relaxation, we've all been there. But apparently, for the patient in this case study, defecation felt more than good, it felt GREAT. But is it...
Posted by Scicurious at 1:02 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 28, 2009
Category: Behavioral Neuro
It's that time of the semester again. The time when Sci has to present at her Journal Club. I know I've talked about Journal Club a couple of times, but what is the purpose of a Journal Club? For those...
Posted by Scicurious at 1:02 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 27, 2009
Category: Synaptic Misfires
First of all, some of you may have seen the concept of "science's rightful place" floating around after President Obama said "we will restore science to its rightful place". But what IS the rightful place of science? There are a...
Posted by Scicurious at 10:41 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2009
Category: Neuroscience
Welcome to part 3 of Welcome to my brain! Apparently everyone is very impressed by how hot my brain is (see parts one and two), but unfortunately, we're almost out of pics. Today we're covering the rest of the bits...
Posted by Scicurious at 1:22 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 23, 2009
Category: Synaptic Misfires
First, we have a new Scibling!!! His name is Sciencepunk, and he's got a super fancy new banner and material already awaiting the masses! Check him out! So I was goofing around the other day, and I came across the...
Posted by Scicurious at 4:50 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
My illustrious coblogger points out that by taking part in research studies, a graduate student can actually afford to do things like, well, eat. Normally relegated to scraping the crumbs off the post-seminar cookie tray, or sneaking into a urology...
Posted by Evil Monkey at 4:20 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Friday Weird Science
As some of you may recall (considering it's my one post that got the most hits ever ever ever), I've previously used weird science to cover various hypotheses on how to deal with your nasal congestion. But it turns out...
Posted by Scicurious at 1:17 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 22, 2009
Category: Neuroscience
Ok, so I thought I would be able to do this brain stuff in TWO entries, but I think it might have to be three. After all, the brain is a wondrous, glorious world of awesome, and MY brain in...
Posted by Scicurious at 1:29 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 21, 2009
Category: Neuroanatomy
Some of you may recall that I got my brain scanned in an MRI for the sake of science. Well, my lovely fellow grad student was nice enough to send me some of my baseline pictures! I think I have...
Posted by Scicurious at 1:33 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 19, 2009
Category: Friday Weird Science
It is rare that a non-fiction book, let alone a non-fiction book about science, makes me laugh so hard I have to put the book down until I can get off the floor. In fact, I would say it's only...
Posted by Scicurious at 1:27 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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