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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.
January 31, 2008
Category: Herbal remedies and other Hooey
Color me unsurprised. You have no doubt seen the commercials for the herbal penis-enlarging supplement Enzyte. They feature a guy with a weird smile and his grinning wife. The pills themselves come in suspiciously medicinal-looking packaging. (With a picture of...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:39 AM • 9 Comments •
January 30, 2008
Category: Shameless Self Promotion
If you are in the NY area, you might want to consider coming to this talk that is being organized by Kate. The title is "DISCUSSION ON THE ROLES OF EMERGING MEDIA OUTLETS IN COMMUNICATING SCIENCE." It is taking place...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:43 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Friday Rants
My Friday rant about intellectuals triggered lots of interesting comments, both positive and negative. Treb: I know it was a "rant", but, wow, is it ever funny to hear someone rant that they are open-minded and someone else is not....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: TV
I took the Jeopardy contestant search exam online last night on a whim, and quite frankly it kicked my ass. Did anyone else take it?...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:47 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Evolution
I was distressed to read this at Wired because usually I feel like they are more on top of things. This is by Thomas Hayden: Even worse, those same cortexes that invented science can't really embrace it. Science describes the...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:18 AM • 6 Comments •
January 29, 2008
Category: Psychology
The NYTimes has an article today about the "science" of online match-making. I put that in quotes because there really isn't any clear evidence about whether it works either way....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 8:16 AM • 2 Comments •
January 25, 2008
Category: Friday Rants
Intellectuals, I have had it with your crap. I have had it with your Laputan thinking and your Utopian fantasies. I have had it with the assumption that people who do not instantaneously agree with you are somehow mentally deficient....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:55 AM • 13 Comments •
January 24, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
This review by Luiz Pessoa in Nature Neuroscience Reviews has to be the most intelligent things I have read in a long time. He argues that the notion that cognition and emotion are separable modules -- a notion that permeates...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:39 PM • 29 Comments •
Category: Shameless Self Promotion
Here I am. Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in. Honestly, I'm happy to be back in the blogosphere. The world is chock-full of great reproduction, sex, and parental research, and I'm thrilled to have...
Posted by Kate at 10:29 AM • 1 Comments •
January 23, 2008
Category: Shameless Self Promotion
I am pleased to announce that Pure Pedantry is being joined by another wonderful, erudite and articulate co-blogger: Kate Seip. Kate formerly ran a blog called Anterior Commissure that many of you have probably read. She is a PhD student...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:48 PM • 6 Comments •
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