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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. No one can live on science alone, so I also like to dwell on pop culture, periodically explore the humanities, and indulge in other types of geeky goodness.
DISCLAIMERS: 1) Jake Young is not a licensed physician (yet). He is merely a medical student. The information published on this site is not intended for use in medical decision-making. Please seek advice from a licensed, medical professional before making any health decisions. 2) The opinions expressed are my own. They do not represent the views of SEED magazine or the educational establishments I currently attend or attended in the past.
June 30, 2006
Category: Movies
Who Killed the Electric Car? opened this evening. As Seed has a nice interview with the filmmaker, Chris Paine, I thought I would see it and write of a review....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:45 PM • 2 Comments •
How does that even work? Former "Baywatch" star David Hasselhoff had surgery after severing a tendon in his right arm in an accident in a London gym bathroom, his spokeswoman said Friday. The 53-year-old actor, who played lifeguard Mitch Buchannon...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 5:22 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Neuroscience
This article in The Scientist describes a paper where the authors claim to have found empathy in mice. The problem is that what you define as empathy may be more a matter of semantics than of science:...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 4:43 PM • 2 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Haha, a funny
If you have gone to college in the past 20 years, odds are you went to about a thousand more A Cappella concerts than you bargained for. I was an RA in college, and frankly by the end I started...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 6:59 AM • 5 Comments •
I love this article from Seed debunking the latest "We are falling behind in science!" hysteria. Here is my favorite line though: Wadhwa and Gereffi found that the oft-quoted numbers didn't filter for expertise. Using data from the National Center...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 3:13 AM • 0 Comments •
June 29, 2006
Category: Game Theory
How does cooperation evolve? It is in an organism's best interest to screw its competitors in order to best convey its genes to the next generation, yet we see a variety of human and animals examples of cooperation. The answer...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 8:48 PM • 4 Comments •
I like my milk pasteurized like everyone else, but the Department of Agriculture is now actually conducting raw milk stings:...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 7:54 PM • 3 Comments •
June 28, 2006
I recieved early release from the New York penal system. As I noted earlier, I had jury duty today, which normally lasts 3 days. However the guy came in after like 3 hours and says that they are letting us...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 5:40 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Movies
Warning SPOILERS below the fold!...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:06 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Neuroscience
Are there neurobiological correlates of economic behavior such as utility seeking? The answer is yes, as demonstrated by some very elegant work by Berns et al in Science....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:50 AM • 2 Comments •
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