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Category: LOLStuff
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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
September 29, 2007
Category: LOLStuff
From here....
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September 28, 2007
Category: Anatomy and Physiology
A transparent frog is interesting, but does not negate the need for dissections.
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Category: Blogging
Blogs are becoming powerful tools of first-hand journalism, most recently evidenced by the conflict going on in Myanmar. A London blogger named Ko Htike has been blogging the violence against monks occurring in his homeland, but from his current locale...
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September 27, 2007
Category: Academia
I get to invite three scientists to speak at UM. Who should it be?
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September 26, 2007
Category: Chemistry
The moldy Koji rice, normal rice, and sake yeast mash are then mixed together in a large vat. Here's where it gets interesting.....
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Category: Guest Articles
Shepard said, "Please, dear God, don't let me f*ck up."
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September 25, 2007
Category: Drugs and the Brain
"My poisoned sickness lasted for good three days and nights. The Doctor came for camphor injections and said that I would have to wait for natural recovery. After all, none of us died or appeared in the newspapers."
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September 24, 2007
Category: Blogging
The artistic process of making a beautiful banner.
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September 23, 2007
Category: YouTube Obsessions
Someone spent too much time making foam pretty.
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September 21, 2007
Category: Friday Grey Matters
One of my favorite authors is Margaret Atwood, the Canadian sci-fi writer who has penned "The Handmaid's Tale," "The Robber Bride," and "Oryx and Crake." The first on that list is the book that initially hooked me, but I think...
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Category: Disease
Call me an old-fashioned granny, but I do love knitting. I'm not very good (getting better), and what I can knit is limited to hats, mittens, scarves, and the obligatory pot holder. So I think that knitting this complicated and...
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September 20, 2007
Category: Guest Articles
Could heroin prescriptions and more methadone clinics decrease crime?
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Category: Blogging
Perhaps you might have noticed my brand spanking new banner up there! It was just recently finished by my friend Carl Buell, blogger at Olduvai George and a phenomenal natural history illustrator. I love it, and hope you do too....
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September 18, 2007
Category: Technology
Why hasn't any company come up with a biodegradable phone? Or environmentally-safe batteries?
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Category: Ecology
Perhaps some of you may remember me mentioning the plight of the Florida manatee a few months back, specifically that their status as an endangered species was being petitioned by the powerful boating lobby. This would have meant that...
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September 17, 2007
Category: Blogging
What would happen if a handful of bloggers started asking questions about the impact of blogging on the "Real World"? What would change if the Academy was made more aware of science blogs, and that they may have an impact...
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September 15, 2007
Category: YouTube Obsessions
In the beginning it begun....
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September 14, 2007
Category: Travel
So, looks like I'll be giving a talk in Antwerp, Belgium during a conference on hearing research October 19-20th. I'll be flying into Amsterdam on the 15th, taking the train to Antwerp for the conference, and then spending the 21-24th...
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September 13, 2007
Category: Drugs and the Brain
Saw this over at Wired Science a couple days back, an interesting article about an unusual, uh, herb called Diviner's sage which has hallucinogenic properties and could spark a new class of drugs. Reports of people curing themselves of depression...
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September 12, 2007
Category: Tastes Like Neuroscience
The popular press loves to harp on iPods, and their potential to cause hearing loss due to loud music pumped through embedded earbuds. Looks like there's something else, a little more drastic and a lot less common to worry...
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September 10, 2007
Category: Friday Grey Matters
Well, just heard that the necropsy of Alex was performed and that no discernible cause of death could be found. This is puzzling and sad, since it would have been better to have some sense of closure, but I...
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Category: U of M
Now with more cleavage!
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September 8, 2007
Category: Friday Grey Matters
Introduction to behavioral work with Alex the parrot.
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Category: Friday Grey Matters
On Friday, I received an email letting me know that the world's most famous African Grey, Alex, had passed away. For those of you who have read this blog for some amount of time, you probably realize that I...
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September 7, 2007
Category: Inner Ear Biology
Always get a hearing test for your child at birth.
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Category: Announcements
The student blogging scholarship is accepting entries.
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September 6, 2007
Category: Birds
Hybridized parrots will rule the world.
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September 4, 2007
Category: Anatomy and Physiology
Endurance athletes have enlarged hearts, and thats a good thing.
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September 1, 2007
Category: Blatant Nerdery
So many geekcakes, so few baking skills....
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