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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…
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…
Science Blogs is celebrating the beginning of the new school year with a series of 101-style posts, introducing the basics of a concept. I've got a couple of basics posts I'd like to do, but this one seemed particularly apt to me. I'm a homeschooler, but it isn't only homeschoolers that struggle…