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Category: Academia
Often, Sci gets books, and even though she's totally excited about them, has to move them to the bottom of the pile, in a vain effort to go through things in the order she receives them, and try to stay...
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Posted by Scicurious at 12:58 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Sci is back from SFN, but she is by no means done with the neuroblogging! Unfortunately, due to a crazy schedule and spotty wireless, Sci was not able to get as much neuroblogging in as she wanted. So she's going...
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Posted by Scicurious at 11:25 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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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Posted by Scicurious at 12:55 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Natural Sciences
Now let us all pause for a moment and be glad that there is no species that uses Oasis songs as its mating calls.
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Posted by Scicurious at 12:02 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Natural Sciences
A few weeks ago, Sci and Mr. SiT met up with some friends we don't see often enough. One of these friends has what I personally think is the BEST JOB EVER. He works for a microbrewery. This means that,...
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Posted by Scicurious at 10:42 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Natural Sciences
Actually, I would like to dedicate this post to the lovely Stephanie Zvan of Almost Diamonds. This is because Stephanie recently sent Sci her blogging muse: an entire box of dark chocolate Moose Munch!!!!!! Moose Munch is indeed Sci's muse,...
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Posted by Scicurious at 1:33 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Natural Sciences
It sounds like the beginning of a joke: Why do dolphins carry sponges? To...um...to...well technically, it's to scoop up fish, but that's not funny...to get to the other side? No? Dang. This paper from PLoS ONE has recently been covered...
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Posted by Scicurious at 2:55 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Natural Sciences
"The spores! The spores!" When I was in undergrad (which is beginning to seem a depressingly long time ago), all the Biology majors had to take Botany. The pre-meds HATED this class, which not only was not really relevant...
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Posted by Scicurious at 10:20 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Primatology
It's not a good millenium to be a monkey. GENEVA (AFP) - Nearly a third of all non-human primates could be wiped out, threatened by illegal wildlife trade, climate change and destruction of their habitat, a new report warned on...
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Posted by Evil Monkey at 1:30 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Menopause
The LA Times has an interesting story about a statement regarding the use of bisphenol A, a compound that has many uses in the plastics industry and also happens to have estrogenic effects. The scientists -- including four from federal...
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