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Christie Wilcox is a science writer and blogger who moonlights as a PhD student in Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Hawaii. Follow on Google+. Follow on Twitter @NerdyChristie.
Christie Wilcox is a science writer and blogger who moonlights as a PhD student in Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Hawaii. Follow on Google+. Follow on Twitter @NerdyChristie.
Brian Switek destroys the lovely image of an artistic Kraken, and Kevin Zelnio rightfully calls him out for it.
Carl gushes over the world’s biggest virus.
The best abstract ever. No, really. You’ll see.
Because one can never hear enough about hagfish slime.
I simply can’t top a title like “Piercing the Paleolithic Penis”.
The death of a whale, in paper cut-outs.
Glowing review of the scientific importance of glowing creatures.
Apparently, placebos are kind of like marijuana.
Oh yeah – and there are over 7 billion people on Earth now. Just FYI.
Vertebrates used to have a sixth sense.
Bathrooms are gross. Though we could try and make them less gross.
Your friends are screwing with your head.
Important information: you can chuck a bone spear through a car (oh, and something about mastodons).
Settled, not settled – or neither.
Can we use fMRI to catch pedophiles? Should we?
Sperm donors have great personalities.
Science fiction donates terms to science.
Birth control pills don’t make your relationship better.
Also, Halloween happened. Apparently vampires are addicts – though Layla Eplett has a good recipe for drinking blood.
And finally, a little love:
About the Author: Christie Wilcox is a science writer and blogger who moonlights as a PhD student in Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Hawaii. Follow on Google+. Follow on Twitter @NerdyChristie.
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The best abstract? If I recall correctly, a geology paper a few decades ago had a longish title in question form followed by an abstract which said only “No.”
Link to thisActually, I think the best abstract ever was one from AGU that Brian Romans put on his blog: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/best-scientific-abstract-ive-read-in-a-long-time/
Link to thisChristie, the mastadon bone spear link is broken. The correct link is
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2011/10/20/early-hunters-killed-mastodons-with-mastodons-also-you-can-chuck-a-bone-spear-through-a-car-who-knew/
Link to thisOops! Fixed.
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