Vaginas (May not be suitable for children and some adults)
In case you missed it, vaginas were all the rage last week… Kangaroos have not 1, not 2, but 3 vajayjays. Just when you thought the human vagina […]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Condemned to a Skeletal Prison
Imagine going to sleep and waking up the next morning not able to bend your elbow or knee. Or imagine having difficulty drawing breath because your rib cage […]
NASA in the News
It was a pretty eventful March for NASA. The MESSENGER space probe wrapped up its mission to Mercury, a project that has yielded new maps that support the hypothesis that […]
Carl Zimmer comes to Brown and schools me in the art science writing.
When it came to science writing, I made a gross miscalculation. Two months ago, the idea of of science blogging came with the naive notion that it would […]
Patents On Nature
by Youssef Rizk, Esq. Most people are aware that having a patent on an invention, process, or business method is a powerful benefit granted by the government that […]
Rethinking the War on Cancer 4.11.12
Bang for our buck Last month, Nature published a damning article on the state of cancer research. In it, a former Amgen researcher C. Glenn Begley details how experiments […]
A man, a mouse, and a fruit fly walk into a bar: Genetic approaches in understanding Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)
The recent buzz surrounding the drinking habits of Drosophila, from dealing with rejection to killing parasites by self-medicating, got me thinking: How might fruit flies be used for research […]
