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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.
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Category: Psychology
A study discussed over at Live Science confirms what I have always suspected: An eight-year study of 218 couples found 90 percent experienced a decrease in marital satisfaction once the first child was born. "Couples who do not have children...
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Category: Haha, a funny
This is pretty funny. It is a song honoring the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) that parodies "We are the world." (Check below the fold.)...
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Category: Haha, a funny
Check out this hysterical rant by Conan about Boron misreporting (below the fold)....
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Category: Haha, a funny
This cartoon at the Economist makes a good point....
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Category: Economics
Check out this video by reason.tv below the fold....
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Category: Herbal remedies and other Hooey
This beat poem is too funny. It is by Tim Minchin in which he describes a dinner party where he confronts a hippie -- recorded live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London in December 08. Sadly NSFW and audio...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:42 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Haha, a funny
Apparently there are still people in the world who have not seen Star Wars. I do not know know what these people have been up to for the past 25 years. My only explanation is that they have been living...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:47 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Haha, a funny
This is fun. You can make a word cloud from a bit of text or a url. Here is one for this site (click to enlarge): Presumably the words are sized by frequency. I finding it quite amusing that "drinking"...
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Category: Haha, a funny
I have two new favorite websites: The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks and Say What?. Both have been cracking me up all weekend. I think that this one is my favorite at "Blog". I am just confused. I mean I...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:22 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Haha, a funny
Not to indulge in too much schadenfreude, but some of these are pretty funny. Foreign Policy compiled the 10 most astonishing wrong predictions for 2008: "There is a real possibility of creating destructive theoretical anomalies such as miniature black holes,...
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