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Category: Friday Weird Science
This post brought to you by Ben and Jerry's Dublin Mudslide Ice Cream. Because the Twitter people are like little devils on my shoulder, making me eat the cake... ( So Sci was going to do her final oxytocin post...
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Category: Friday Weird Science
Rounding out Sci's first week of the Great Oxytocin Posting of 2009 (oh yes, there will be two weeks of this, hang tight), we've gotta do something weird. And luckily for everyone, oxytocin does lend itself to the strange types...
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Category: Friday Weird Science
Editor's Selection Icon Who would have thought Sci would be running a normal pub-med search, for something COMPLETELY not weird science material, and come across...this? Truly, it was meant to be! This case report is probably one of the weirdest...
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Category: Friday Weird Science
Sci always has all these PLANS for weird science, all these THINGS she's going to blog about. Seriously, a post on Ritalin-induced stuttering priapism (heh...heh...) awaits! But then, Mo posts something like this on Twitter, and Sci just HAS to...
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Category: Friday Weird Science
Today's Friday Weird Science is going up late, because of extenuating circumstances. Sci-cat, Sci's constant blogging companion (someone has to keep those papers and books warm and furry!), managed to hop up on something Sci thought she could not reach,...
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Category: Friday Weird Science
Sci WAS going to do a cool story on bee sex sent to her by the charming Gg of Skulls in the Stars, but that's going to have to happen next week. I just CAN'T let this one go by....
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Category: Natural Sciences
Editor's Selection Icon (w00t!) Today's post comes to you courtesy of Laelaps. Sci's been wanting to cover sex in other species for a while now (I mean, it's so WEIRD!), and Laelaps has kindly provided a whole series of great...
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Category: Friday Weird Science
Sci is sick today. She's cuddled up with her tea, and desperately hoping she has a cold rather than the flu. But the weird science CALLS US, precious. No matter how sick. It calls. Judging from the vast number of...
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Category: Friday Weird Science
This is a story of what happens when you combine a man, a sexual encounter, a pen, and a complete and thorough ignorance of human anatomy.
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Category: Friday Weird Science
Sci received a charming email from reader Monica the other day! Monica was able to get the paper Sci recently blogged on about kids trapped in fridges. But she couldn't find a pdf copy of the paper for all the...
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