The worst learners are stressed-out men.
If everyone is stressed out, Scientific American seems to be saying, then women will have a mental advantage. That’s because stressed men are worse at […]
Month: August 2013
Science Art: Tabula XXIII: De humeri fracti compositioni & luxationem cubiti, humeri, ac femoris restitutioni, from Armamentum chirurgicum, by D. Joannis Sculteti, 1656
A 17th-century guide to leg surgery. Unfortunately, my Latin’s not what it could be, so I can’t tell exactly what Dr. Joannis Sculteti is recommending […]
Some critters are so small, they can’t make a species.
That’s the argument Laboratory Equipment describes some mathematical taxonomists (there’s a discipline for you) are making – claiming that some kinds of plankton are individually […]
Mosquitos *taste* heat.
Science Daily has more on the strange, previously unknown sensory organ in insects: Notice how mosquitoes always seem to bite where there is the most […]
Red light beats blue mood.
Medical Xpress reports on the colorful work of Ohio State U neuroscientists who have studied the effects of nightlights on depression: In a study involving […]
(Can’t beat this headline) “How to regrow your head.”
Nature has the details on what it takes to come back from a decapitation: Knocking out a single gene can switch on a worm’s ability […]
Lab-grown meat: first taste “feels like a conventional hamburger”
AP (via Yahoo!) has the first reactions to meat grown in a petri dish rather than on a farm: Two volunteers who participated in the […]
Science Art: Sketch of a Decompression Chamber in Use from Caisson Sickness, and the Physiology of Work in Compressed Air, by Leonard Hill, M.B., 1912.
People seem to like caissons (pressurized chambers used to build foundations underwater), or so my search referrals tell me. Well, here’s what working in a […]
Zookeepers baffled by spooked baboons.
BBC says that’s what’s going on in the Netherlands. The baboons were terrified, but no one knows why; The behaviour started on Monday evening, and […]
Watch your dog’s left eyebrow. That’s how they say they’re glad to see you.
Doctor Dolittle… well, not exactly. But The Telegraph reads dogs’ faces to see if they’re happy to see you: Animal behaviour experts have found the […]
A blood test for Alzheimer’s disease – almost here.
BBC reports on the struggle to develop an early blood test for Alzheimer’s: A technique published in the journal Genome Biology showed differences in the […]