Standing Up For What You Believe In Is Hard
Category: US Politics
He's refused to be deployed to Iraq and made (GASP!) critical statements of Bush and the war.
Posted by Shelley Batts at 6:34 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Retrospectacle: A Neuroscience Blog
The trials, tribulations, and joys of a Neuroscience gradute student writing her thesis in the postmodern, post-Y2K world.
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Shelley Batts is a Neuroscience PhD candidate at the University of Michigan. She studies hair cell regeneration in the cochlea, and is just embarking on that quixotic quest called 'thesis.' She lies awake at night pondering how science intersects with politics, culture, policy, money, medicine, and religion in an attempt to be more than just a niche scientist sitting in the oh-so-lovely ivory tower. Follow me and my parrot on the quest to get funded, get a PhD, and stay sane.
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life. ~Rachel Carson
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Cochlear Hair Cell Regeneration
Interview With Dr. Irene Pepperberg
On Religion and Taking the 'Red Pill'
Neuroscience of Cocaine Addiction
Parrots Have Object Permanance
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Retrospectacle is now Of Two Minds!
February 28, 2007
STD Happy Hour
Category: Travel
Ohhh this picture makes me crack up. I took it outside "The Sink," a bar in Boulder, Colorado when I was there a bit ago for a science conference. Yes, it says "STD Happy Hour." I forget what it was...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 2:00 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Group Seeks to Challenge Faith-Based Initiatives
Category: Law and Ethics
Supreme Court hears a challenge to the Faith-Based Initiatives program. Bush pees his pants.
Posted by Shelley Batts at 1:23 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Racist Columnist Rails Against Blacks, Whites, Asians
Category: Law and Ethics
File this under "How in the Hell......" No one would be foolish enough to claim that racism and discrimination doesn't exist to some extent. Its an unhappy result of worlds and societies colliding, and I truly believe that as societies...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 9:06 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 27, 2007
Hewlett Packard "Infomania" Study Pure Tripe, Blogs Not
Category: Technology
A "study" conducted for computing firm Hewlett Packard warned of a rise in "infomania", with people becoming addicted to email and text messages and this impacting (what else?) their IQ. This came in 2006, but I just stumbled upon it...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 3:31 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Everybody Beat Me To It.....
Category: Birds
Yeah, remote controlled birds.......crazy cool...... Scientists in eastern China say they have succeeded in controlling the flight of pigeons with micro electrodes planted in their brains, state media reported on Tuesday. Scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Centre at...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 2:57 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Memo: Cheney Watch Your Back
Category: Science Cartoons
(Hat tip necta)...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 9:16 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 26, 2007
The Teacher Firing Flow Chart
Category: Academia
Everybody's talking about the firing of incompentent teachers today, and how difficult it can be due to union rigamarole. Take this flow chart for example, which outlines the steps that must be taken to fire a bad teacher in New...
Posted by Shelley Batts at 12:49 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
New Drug Counteracts Down Syndrome in Mice
Category: Tastes Like Neuroscience
"Anyone studying Down syndrome is going to have their socks blown off by this...."
Posted by Shelley Batts at 9:22 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 25, 2007
Awesome Pictures of Comet McNaught
Category: Space Stuff
Its the brightest comet in 40 years, and is now visible to the naked eye to people in the southern hemisphere. For those of us in the northern side, we'll just have to make do with cool pictures....
Posted by Shelley Batts at 11:32 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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