Now on ScienceBlogs: Falling into a Black Hole sucks!
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.
September 28, 2007
Category: Haha, a funny
I don't catch the Onion much anymore, but this is just priceless: Top physicists from several major American universities appeared before a Congressional committee Monday to request $50 billion for a science thing that would further U.S. advancement science-wise and...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 4:43 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Economics
Socrates gave us the foundation of modern philosophy when he claimed that his only wisdom was in knowing his own ignorance. By implication, of course, everyone else was even stupider than he and just didn't know it, believing they were...
Posted by Kara Contreary at 1:20 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Biology
The Scientist has a wonderful article about complimentarity in biology. Complimentarity is the application of two or more different theoretical approaches to a single problem: "Light and Life" is perhaps best known for its focus on Bohr's concept of complementarity....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:43 AM • 1 Comments •
September 26, 2007
Category: Haha, a funny
Here's a quote of the day for you by Katie Glasrud, writing at Pharyngula: That fumble in the fourth quarter? You just dropped it didn't you. It looks like you've had a lot of testosterone-dropping moments this season, and I...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:41 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Obesity and Heart Disease
A speculative theory about how wealth relates to the rates of obesity and what this means for policy
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:36 PM • 22 Comments •
September 24, 2007
Category: Other People's Work
Encephalon 32 is up at Living the Scientific Life. The Chernobyl reactor will be encased in a huge steel arch. This business sounds suspiciously similar to the Simpsons movie....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:59 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Reproduction, Birth Control, and Abortion Politics
The US government spends millions domestically and billions internationally on abstinence-only education with the intent of lowering the transmission of STIs such as HIV and limiting unwanted pregnancies. Yet abstinence-only education is demonstrably ineffective. The alternative called abstinence-plus education clearly...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:56 PM • 12 Comments •
September 21, 2007
Category: Video Games
Video games of late have gotten crazy complicated. Making life-like characters and realistic worlds is an incredible computational challenge. Popular Science lists the 10 Biggest Challenges in video game production, and number 4 struck my eye: 4. Artificial Intelligence Like...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:06 AM • 1 Comments •
September 20, 2007
Category: Synapses
3D reconstruction shows the tethering of synaptic vesicles
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:08 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Medicine
The British, innovators in casual medicine
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:51 AM • 3 Comments •
