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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.
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Category: TV
CNN is shutting down their science-and-technology unit. Not that it was much of a unit considering there was only one reporter: CNN has decided to shutter its science and technology unit -- a move that will result in the loss...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:36 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Haha, a funny
I don't know if you have seen these, but Florida Orange Juice started a new ad campaign featuring commercials with the voice of Tom Selleck. (Magnum PI does like his orange juice.) Anyway, the commercials show a beaker into which...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:23 AM • 2 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: TV
The absence of historical education in this country hurts me here. (points to heart) Exhibit A: The View (see below fold)...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 2:14 PM • 6 Comments •
Category: TV
So I don't know if other people were into this show, but since college I have been a big fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000. It was a show on Comedy Central and then on SciFi that made fun of...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:50 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: TV
Boooo, I say! FOX and CBS have rejected a commercial for Trojan condoms on the grounds that they believed the ads stressed pregnancy prevention over disease prevention. From the NYTimes coverage: Fox and CBS both rejected the commercial. Both had...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:01 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: TV
Reason magazine has a great interview with Jackson Publick, the co-creator of one of my favorite shows The Venture Brothers. For those of you who haven't seen it, it is sort of a parody of all the cartoons from the...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:08 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: TV
I was just in London, and a friend of mine clued me into this British comic named Bill Bailey. Priceless. Anyway, this is not even vaguely science-related, but there is a clip below the fold that is too funny....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:05 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Ethics
On The Colbert Report last night, Stephen Colbert talked about an article about uterine transplants for The Word. Scientists now claim that there is nothing technically to prevent us from performing a womb transplant, even to the point that you...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:09 AM • 1 Comments •
Ask a ScienceBlogger inquires: What's the best science TV show of all time?... I think that is pretty obvious. The answer is obviously my favorite science show from when I was a kid: 3-2-1 Contact Not only did it have...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:09 AM • 0 Comments •
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