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Didn't you get something like this from your parents when you were younger? "You kids don't know how easy you have it. When I was young, I had to walk to school! In the snow! Uphill! Both ways!" Well, a bunch of us Sciencebloggers recently got to reminiscing about the good ol' days, when we…
Well, it looks as though I've stepped into it yet one more time. Believe it or not, I hadn't intended to stir up trouble among the ScienceBlogs collective, both English- and German-speaking. Really. Oh, I'll admit that there are occasionally times when I actually do mean to stir up trouble. One…
The always-outstanding neuroblogger, SciCurious, put up an excellent post overnight on a presentation she saw at the current Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) in Chicago. Therein, she wrote about a poster presentation she saw on the relationship between iron, cholesterol, and…
The other day I got a phone call from a marketing research firm. I'm a sucker for these things, so I agreed to answer the questions, even though the caller said it might take up to 20 minutes. CALLER: Can you tell me which local news shows you watch on TV from 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. on Monday through…