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Diagram of the Day
In case you ever need it, here’s a sort of workflow diagram for refurbishing a lung and transplanting it into a rat: Via Ed Yong, who writes: In a lab at Yale University, a rat inhales. Every breath...
View ArticlePenetrating Observations: Grim Reaper Edition
Researchers using DNA analysis are “85% sure” they’ve identified the remains of Italian painter Caravaggio (1571-1610) in a small church in Tuscany. And it seems that Caravaggio, an artistic genius...
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Assassin Bugs
Need an idea for a Halloween costume? Try covering yourself in a mound of corpses like these assassin bugs: Apparently this will also make you unappetizing to spiders. Via Ed Yong.
View ArticleSelected Behavior
I’m enjoying Karl Smith’s guest posts at Ezra Klein’s place so much that I went to check out his usual digs at Modeled Behavior. There I ran into this little foray into the theory of Darwinism: Natural...
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Without Peer (Review)
This blog is not peer-reviewed. And do you know what else wasn’t peer-reviewed? Watson and Crick’s famous paper on the structure of DNA, that’s what! And probably most of Albert Einstein’s work....
View ArticleMore on Peer Review (or the Lack Thereof)
I hope it was clear that my earlier mention of famous scientific papers that had not been peer reviewed was not meant to denigrate peer review in any way. On the contrary, I was taken aback at the...
View ArticleAnnals of Evolution: What Are Hiccups?
Hiccups are pretty damn weird, if you think about ‘em. And one of the reasons they are weird is that thinking about them does not help you control them. Anyway, it’s something I’ve always wondered...
View ArticleHow to Get Things Done
Here’s a handy summary of evidence-based suggestions of the optimal psychological states one should maintain in order to get stuff done. To avoid procrastinating on a task, focus on its details and use...
View ArticleAnnals of Evolution: What Are Goosebumps?
Like hiccups, goosebumps are a QWERTY phenomenon. They are relics of our evolutionary heritage. Rob Dunn explains: When our ancestors were covered in fur, muscles in their skin called “arrector pili”...
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Kingdom Come
Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a woodcut. Germany, AD 1498. Vaughan Bell has an interesting piece at Slate about research into how followers of apocalyptic cults cope when their...
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