There is a great conversation going on at Megan McArdle's blog with Paul Campos, author of The Obesity Myth. I say great because it give me the opportunity to show how astonishingly wrong Campos in suggesting that the obesity at...
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Category: Academia
You attended 5 classes of your Brain and Behavior course out of an 8 week summer session that meets daily, and stop going after the first exam. Which you failed. Repeating the exact same pattern from the previous semester when...
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Category: Neuroscience
In neuroscience, we spend most of our time trying to understand the function of the "normal" brain -- whatever that means -- hence, we are most interested in the average. Under most occasions when scientists take an interest in the...
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Category: Friday Weird Science
h yeah, look at that cute lady echidna, so cold, so slow moving...
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Category: Synaptic Misfires
It wasn't until college that Sci first heard Wednesday referred to as "Hump Day". She apologizes for a certain lack of hefty content in the latest series of posts. This thing, they call it "real" life", and it's getting in...
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