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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.
April 30, 2007
Category: Statistics
Want to know when to use Standard Deviation (SD) as opposed to Standard Error (SE) or a Confidence Interval (CI)? Then you should read this really useful paper in JCB about error bars in scientific papers. Here is just a...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:57 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Obesity and Heart Disease
If this works, this guy is going to make a bagillion dollars: By giving ordinary adult mice a drug - a synthetic designed to mimic fat - Salk Institute scientist Dr. Ronald M. Evans is now able to chemically switch...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:31 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Technology
They didn't need to go out and make artificial snot. It's allergy season...I got plenty for them right here: Researchers at The University of Warwick and Leicester University have used an artificial snot (nasal mucus) to significantly enhance the performance...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:15 AM • 0 Comments •
April 27, 2007
Category: Academia
I had the great pleasure of working in labs as an undergrad. Most of my classmates now did as well. Part of the good experience was the ability to really narrow down what type of science I was most interested...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:32 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Ethics
Ronald Bailey at Reason reviews an interesting article in the American Journal of Bioethics by Martha Farah and Andrea Heberlein and the responses to it. Farah and Heberlein argue that while an innate system for the detection of personhood exists...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:43 AM • 6 Comments •
April 26, 2007
Category: Blogging
I don't know if you caught this story, but one of our fellow bloggers here at ScienceBlogs, Shelley Batts of Retrospectacle, was threatened with legal action when she reproduced a figure from a published paper in one of her blog...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:02 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Religion
The Economist has a great article summarizing all the ways in which the debate between evolution and religion has gone global. It also does a good job of analyzing the different strains within the American debate, depicting it as much...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:31 PM • 16 Comments •
April 25, 2007
Category: Aminals
I don't know if you have been following this story, but there have been massive honey bee die-offs recently in the United States. Considering that honey bees are the primary pollinators for many of the crops grown here, this is...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:33 AM • 4 Comments •
April 24, 2007
Category: Philosophy
Here is your philosophical conversation to ponder over for the day. (I am cleaning out links, and this is the sort of stuff you get when I am cleaning out links.) I recently read an interesting interchange on about Weber's...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:02 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Reproduction, Birth Control, and Abortion Politics
If you read the statistics, it isn't difficult to question the effectiveness of abstinence-only education in schools. It is about as effective as telling a three-year-old to not eat that big cookie on the table and then leaving the room...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:49 AM • 4 Comments •
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