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.
May 31, 2008
Category: Religion
A cat hit by a motorcycle in Port Harcourt, Nigeria allegedly turned into a middle-aged woman. Good thing there were lots of people around to kill a second cat-person and beat the accident survivor into a confession of witchcraft. What...
Posted by Kara Contreary at 9:26 AM • 4 Comments •
May 30, 2008
Category: Politics
Not really a fan of Jonah Goldberg, but damn this is funny: It's been rumored that McClellan was hired by the Bush White House to appeal to a specific sub-constituency: pasty middle-aged men with a thumbless grasp of the English...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:02 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Philosophy
Will Wilkinson takes anarchist Crispin Sartwell over the proposition that an illegitimate state is therefore a morally indefensible state: The point is: Showing that the state is not legitimate does not deliver anarchy because "If the state is not legitimate,...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:33 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Breaking News
Another crane has collapsed in NYC. This is the second crane to collapse in the past several months, and this one is even closer to my house. Yikes. I would say that I would never walk under these things, but...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:42 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Mental Health
I had the privilege of seeing Hamlet last night at Shakespeare in the Park. I say the privilege because the production was as usual excellent. For those of you who don't know, it is a New York tradition for the...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:30 AM • 2 Comments •
May 28, 2008
Category: Math
This is cool. A computer programmer parsed the all the Wikipedia entries to find the average step length to get from any one to any other. He also found the center of Wikipedia -- the article that has the shortest...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:26 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Sex
OK, so that title is a bit glib, but that is definitely how the press is going to spin this story about birds who have stable female-female mating pairs: Almost a third of Laysan albatross nests in the Oahu colony...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:03 AM • 8 Comments •
May 27, 2008
Category: Carnivals
Encephalon #46 is up at the Neurocritic. My favorite: if you haven't read Chris's post how on hyperbolic discounting reflects distorted time perception, you need to. It is genius....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 4:53 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Science Life
Don't tell my boss... Prospects for work this summer are not improving...and fast....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 3:42 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Drugs
One of the more common questions I get is why they haven't found any drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease. (But they have, haven't they? What about cholinesterase inhibitors like Aricept? Ed. Those drugs mask the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, but...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:43 PM • 0 Comments •
