Now on ScienceBlogs: And so, driven on ceaselessly toward new shores
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.
August 31, 2006
Category: Pop culture
I don't even want to know how he got it: Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have yet to show their baby daughter off in public, but eager fans were given an unusual preview with the chance to see a bronze...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:35 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: Aging and Longevity
I have posted before about how I think that the role of genetics, at least in popular culture, has been overemphasized. Rather, the really interesting and important parts of genetics are the ways in which your genes interact with environmental...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:31 PM • 1 Comments •
August 30, 2006
Kyra, Kyra, Kyra... Note to self: turn off mic in the john. Kyra Phillips, anchor of CNN's "Live From...," unwittingly upstaged President Bush's speech in New Orleans with on-the-air analysis of her husband and the marriage of her brother --...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 3:24 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: The Synapse (a neuroscience carnival)
The Synapse #6 is being hosted on The Mouse Trap on Sunday, September 3rd. Submission guidelines here....
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Those of you who read an earlier post here noted that I was somewhat skeptical of the technical aspects of the so-called ethical stem cells. I felt that there were several technical hurdles that had to be surmounted before this...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 3:14 PM • 3 Comments •
August 29, 2006
Category: Neuroscience
The Neurophilosopher has a fabulous long post on the discovery of the neuron as the fundamental unit of the nervous system. I would note when you get to the part about Ramon y Cajal that his picture of the neurons...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:38 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Science politics
There is an excellent discussion on Prometheus about whether it is OK to distort the means of science to justify certain ends. Money quote: This is of course an issue much broader than climate change, and at its core is...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:50 AM • 0 Comments •
August 28, 2006
Category: Biology
Wouldn't we all like to know how to control hairiness? Women complain that they have too much, and spend half their lives eradicating the little bastards. Men have too little on the tops of their heads, and, let us say,...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 8:59 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Carnivals
Encephalon #5 is up at Developing Intelligence....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:25 PM • •
You be the judge? Meanwhile, Cruise has been busier pushing Scientology than anyone knew. According to a just-declassified State Department schedule, Cruise visited then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage on June 13, 2003, just an hour after Armitage had met...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:13 AM • 2 Comments •
