A presentation last week at the 9th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting brings some clarity (or complexity, depending on whether you’re a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty kind of critter) to the Good, the Bad, and the Completely Confusing topic of menopause-related hormone replacement therapy (HT). We say “completely confusing” because folks with ovaries have been subjected to…
May’s Playlist To Make Running Suck Less!
This month’s hand-plucked and running-tested 75-85/150-170 BPM playlist is brought to you in part by Pitchfork’s Top 200 Tracks of the 90s list, plus a few picks from Spotify’s handy New Music Tuesdays playlist, plus the usual smattering of other special nice running time, metronome-tastic tracks. As always, tl;dr to cut straight to the list!…
H5N2 – Avian Flu: Electric Flugaloo
You’ll be forgiven if you haven’t heard much about this whole avian flu thing, what with it being primarily centered in Flyover Country and all.1: “The bird flu that has swept across the Midwest in recent weeks is taking a sharp toll on rural economies, with University of Minnesota researchers estimating losses in the state at…
We’re All Going To Die Of A Hantavirus Outbreak Because Bamboo!
Today in How Hippies Are Wrecking Everything is news of a coming outbreak-pocalypse caused by illicit bamboo habits. The long and short of a paper out last week1 is that as a result of hippies using non-native Asian bamboo for landscaping in the Pacific Northwest2 we’re all going to die of hantavirus. Hurray! Apparently there…
Today In “Why Can’t Ladies Just Accept Their Place As Lazy Grifters”
Let us bring you the cheerful tidings of not one, but TWO heroic instances of putting grifter lady-people in their places by scolding them like the children they are. It turns out their right to vote, their liberation from the bonds of laundry and yea, even their nominal acceptance as “scientists” are entirely, completely and…
April’s Playlist To Make Running Suck Less: Classical Edition!
This month’s 75-85/150-170 BPM running list is all classical, instrumental and/or soundtrack, all the time. Perhaps you aren’t interested in classical-leaning music on even your best, most pretentious days. Well, we promise this playlist won’t put you to sleep AND is a great running playlist. You might even grow some classical love in the process.…
Now Here’s Some Gun Violence We Can All Get Behind
To be filed under “Who among us has never…” and cross-referenced with “How is this only the first time this has ever happened?” is the story of one Lucas Hinch and some gun violence we can all get behind. It seems Deputy Wyatt Earp, er – Mr. Hinch – emerged the victor in a shootout…
How Science Publishing Went The Way Of Bloatware
Everyone’s favorite biomedical ethicist uncle, Arthur Caplan, appeared on Science Friday last week to talk about bloat and pollution.1 And no, Caplan was bearing doomsday tidings of neither a Windows operating system nor the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Caplan took to the airwaves to direct our short attention spans to the unprecedented explosion of “plagiarism, fraud,…
This Month’s Playlist To Make Running Suck Less
Welcome to another installment of Playlists To Make Running Suck Less – a compiled, culled and collated 156-176 (or 78×2 – 88×2) BPM playlist! This playlist provides about an hour’s worth of metronoming your running stride (that is, if your stride is somewhere in the ballpark of 5′ 8″ with a 32″ inseam) and drowning…
This Week In Uncanny Valley: Robots That Learn And Develop Like Infants
We’ll grant you a moment to stop and breathe until the uncanny valley induced terror generated by the above photo has passed. Do take heart, as the above specimen of robot is soooo 2009. Once you’ve pulled yourself together, say hello to the latest (and dare we say almost cuddly?) paving stone on the path…