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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.
October 31, 2006
Category: Embryonic Stem Cells
In August, there was a big press tizzy about so-called ethical stem cells. In the paper, a group headed by Robert Lanza working at a company called Advanced Cell Technology claimed that they could take a single cell from a...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:04 AM • 0 Comments •
October 30, 2006
Category: The Synapse (a neuroscience carnival)
Synapse #10 is Halloween-themed and posted at the Neurocritic. Spooky. I love it. The next Synapse is on November 12 to be hosted on Developing Intelligence. Submission info here....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:14 PM • 0 Comments •
Check out this YouTube of bullets explodying things (is that even a word?) in slow motion!!!...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 8:37 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Science politics
The famous skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis nicknamed Lucy is going on a field trip: After 4 years of an on-again, off-again courtship, Ethiopian officials have promised the hand--and partial skeleton--of the famous fossil Lucy to museum officials in Houston,...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 8:28 AM • 1 Comments •
October 28, 2006
Category: Poems
Keeping in my continuing theme of interspersing a little humanities with my sciences -- I never was a kid who needed their food separated -- here is your poem of the week, Langston Hughes' Theme for English B. A little...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 4:42 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: The Synapse (a neuroscience carnival)
I'm a space cadet, but remember to submit to the Synapse today for tomorrow's issue. It is being hosted at the Neurocritic (All glory to the Hypnotoad!!!...Check the link...you will understand). Submission details here....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:07 AM • 1 Comments •
October 27, 2006
I have argued repeatedly that I don't think biological differences between men and women are sufficient to explain their different in representation in math and science (here, here, and here). Mixing Memory has a very thorough post arguing for the...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:19 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Religion
I don't really have time to post stuff today, but this post by Chad at Uncertain Principles is really good. It relates the failure to fully disprove Einstein's idea of Local Hidden Variables (read it and he will explain) to...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:03 PM • 6 Comments •
October 26, 2006
Category: Medicine
I hadn't actually known this, but the creator of the Dilbert cartoons, Scott Adams, was diagnosed about two years ago with a rare disease called spasmodic dysphonia. Apparently he just recovered -- in spite of overwhelming odds against that happening....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:48 AM • 26 Comments •
October 25, 2006
Category: Medicine
Virtual colonoscopy is more comfortable. Just thought you should know: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center researchers have found that "virtual" colonoscopy using a computer tomography (CT) scanner is considerably more expensive than the traditional procedure due to the detection...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:31 AM • 7 Comments •
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