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Re-shelving Nonsense Since 2007
If you’ve walked into any large bookstore lately and browsed the “Science” section, you may have been appalled by what passes as science literature these days. In addition to being minuscule (and often...
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Neuromart: Best Thing Since Sliced Brain
PhDs are useful for all kinds of things. Some people become faculty, others go into industry, and some decide to market ridiculously nerdtastic neurologically-based gifts via the internet. Sure, the...
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Geeky Panties
How about some Nintendo underwear? Continued below the fold…. Think Geek has HttPanties Trouble getting into those panties? Keyboard pants? These have the structure of estrogen..
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Bake Me A Geeky Cake….
Occassionally, and by this I mean very, very rarely, geeks find significant others and get married (in the real world, not Second Life!). When such an noteworthy event happens, blissful geeks have been...
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Rings of Phenomenal Nertitude
Some say nothing quite says “I love you” like a diamond ring, but *I* say nothing quite says “I’m a huge geek” like these rings. You know, there’s so many times I’ve wished I’d been able to generate...
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Silicon Valley Hackfest Hints at How Laboratory Scientists Could Communicate
This past Saturday, dozens of computer programmers descended upon a mansion in Cupertino, California to enjoy massive troughs of Indian food, camaraderie, and 12 hours of working on a diverse array of...
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Brainiac Plays with Fire: Thermite versus Liquid Nitrogen
In comparison to other science shows, Brainiac is quite effective at appealing to the visceral compulsion to play with fire. In this case, they pitted scorching hot thermite against molten metal. What...
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Knit Me A Brain (and Don’t Forget the Corpus Callosum Zipper)
While not as shockingly unusual as the knitted teratoma I reported on a while back, this knitted brain (located at the awesomely-titled ‘Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art’) is equally...
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Dysentery Isn’t Funny
…unless it occurs in Oregon Trail. Then its hilarious. You too can proclaim your malady to the world via Tshirt, here. (Hat tip darkman, who has a raging case of dysentery)
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Fake Poster Trilogy: Rat Motor Neurons Predict the Stock Market
Along with Shelley, I am a graduate student in the Neuroscience Program at UM. The last three years my labmates and I have made a trilogy of satirical neuroscience posters poking mild fun at the...
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