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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.
August 29, 2007
Category: Other People's Work
Gene Expression has 10 Questions with Gregory Clark, author of A Farewell to Alms: Clark also provides archival evidence that in medieval Britain (and to a lesser extent in China and Japan) the wealthy-who presumably had those "middle class" skills...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:42 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Biology
That is so gross, yet also very cool. The cowpea weevil or Callosobruchus maculatus has an arms race that is going between the males and females. This beetle species are promiscuous, and there is a lot of advantage for the...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:27 AM • 3 Comments •
August 27, 2007
Category: Carnivals
Encephalon #30 is up at Neurofuture....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 6:20 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Science politics
Fellow ScienceBlogger Tara Smith has a required reading article in PLoS Medicine on HIV denialists: Since the ideas proposed by deniers do not meet rigorous scientific standards, they cannot hope to compete against the mainstream theories. They cannot raise the...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 6:34 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Science Life
Bring more science into your life with scientific knitting... This comes via Virginia Postrel where she examines the new glamorous scientist. That makes the extraordinary success of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which begins its eighth season this month, all the...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 6:12 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Science Life
James Kirchick at Independent Gay Forum mentions the trouble he has had dating outside his politics: "I can't date someone with a different belief system" is what he told me. I expected this answer from the guy I had been...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 6:08 AM • 6 Comments •
August 23, 2007
Category: Labor
Every now and then, it behooves us to stop listening to the shouting heads on television and look at some numbers. A new study by the Pew Hispanic Center shows that Latino immigrants are moving up the economic ladder, out...
Posted by Kara Contreary at 2:17 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Publishing and Journals
This is genius. These guys are proposing that we construct Fantasy Journals -- drafted sets of journal articles -- at meetings and scientific gatherings sort of like Fantasy Football. Each player would get access to say all the papers to...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:20 AM • 2 Comments •
August 22, 2007
Category: Other People's Work
Megan McArdle on the morality -- not the economics -- of a single-payer healthcare system: As a class, are the young and healthy more responsible for the bad health of the old and sick? Quite the reverse. Many people in...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:33 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Learning and Memory
NYTimes Science section, why do you make me so mad? Gretchen Reynolds published an article in the Times on cognitive improvements associated with exercise, and I would like to use it to make a point about how science journalism often...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:05 PM • 3 Comments •
