Archive | October, 2006
Offspring of Depressed Parents
From this weeks American Journal of Psychiatry: "The risks for anxiety disorders, major depression, and substance dependence were approximately three times as high in the offspring of depressed parents as in the offspring of nondepressed parents. Social impairment was also greater. The period of highest incidence for major depressive disorder remained between ages 15 and 20 [...]
Continue reading...Ovulation = Good Times
14. October 2006
Men around the world could have saved these lunatic researchers a few million dollars in grants - if they had just asked us. In the latest issues of the journal Hormones and Behavior, "scientists" at UCLA have determined that ovulating women tend to dress more provocatively. The lead of this useless research, Martie Haselton, says [...]
Continue reading...Democratizing Science
11. October 2006
In the nineteenth century, Charles Darwin was just one of the many independent researchers who, not reliant on grants or constrained by the conservative pressures of anonymous peer review, did stunningly original work. That kind of freedom and independence has become almost non-existent. These days, the kinds of research that can happen are determined by [...]
Continue reading...Do Neurons Regenerate?
8. October 2006
I was recently discussing brain science with a friend in med school and I happened to mention how neurons can regenerate in the hippocampus. Of course, I got laughed at because everyone knows that we are born with all the gray matter we'll ever need. Not only is it common knowledge, it's being taught in [...]
Continue reading...Puzzling Ancient Artifacts
5. October 2006
From About.com, "Over the last few hundred years, many perplexing artifacts have been unearthed that do not fit the currently accepted theories of geology and the history of man." Consider these astonishing finds... (read more)
Continue reading...He Wishes for Heaven
3. October 2006
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, enwrought with the golden and silver light. The blue and the dim and the dark cloths of night and light and half-light. I would spread the cloths under your feet but I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; tread softly because [...]
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