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Notes of Ranvier: March 2012

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Interesting things from an overly-curious science nerd. What does Notes of Ranvier mean? Tuesday, March 13, 2012. Salty Penguins Filter Salt Out Their Nose. Season 1, episode 5, via [adult swim]. Why yes, penguins do. Have an organ that converts sea water into fresh water! Except it's not an organ, it's a gland. And it doesn't directly convert sea water to fresh water, it filters salt from the blood. Hm, maybe I should start from the beginning. Penguins have a very high salt load because they drink sea w...

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Notes of Ranvier: November 2011

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Interesting things from an overly-curious science nerd. What does Notes of Ranvier mean? Thursday, November 17, 2011. Gender-Bending in the Animal Kingdom. In the New York Times. This week inspired me to write about my favorite animal of all time, the cuttlefish. Cuttlefish (and other cephalopods. This complex camouflage is a rather useful strategy for cephalopods. With the exception of the even less famous, but far more threatened. Nautilus, cephalopods have very little protection from predators. Th...

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Notes of Ranvier: April 2013

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Interesting things from an overly-curious science nerd. What does Notes of Ranvier mean? Monday, April 29, 2013. MDMA, "Drugs Live," and a life update. It's been a while. Last summer, I became inspired to write an article about the potential benefits of the club drug, MDMA, otherwise known as Ecstasy or Molly. The blog post got turned into an article for my alma mater's science magazine, The Synapse. And was published a few months ago. With permission, I am cross-posting it here. Likely wouldn't catch th...

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Notes of Ranvier: February 2012

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Interesting things from an overly-curious science nerd. What does Notes of Ranvier mean? Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Neuromagicology: At the Intersection of Art and Science. We all know how the cameras in our phones are only so good. The photos look grainy and the colors washed out. Compared to the naked eye, phone cameras don't seem to compare. Well actually, the camera in your smartphone is 2 1/2 times better. It's because you have something your phone can't even begin to emulate, the brain. They were ...

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Notes of Ranvier: January 2012

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Interesting things from an overly-curious science nerd. What does Notes of Ranvier mean? Sunday, January 15, 2012. Blindsight and Consciousness, what can we learn from the blindsighted? If there were ever a perfect example of an oxymoron, the term blindsight. Other than the best oxymoron ever, what is. Alan Cowey, in his 2010 review article, The blindsight saga. Describes it as such:. In this video, a blindsighted patient is able to navigate a field of obstacles successfully, even though he can't see them.

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Notes of Ranvier: Megalo-debacle: Did Discovery Really Commit a Faux-Pas?

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Interesting things from an overly-curious science nerd. What does Notes of Ranvier mean? Monday, August 12, 2013. Megalo-debacle: Did Discovery Really Commit a Faux-Pas? Megalodon, for the record, are definitely, absolutely extinct. They were super-sized sharks that once roamed the oceans some 2 million years ago. Relative size of Megalodon (red and grey) vs. human. Source. None of the institutions or agencies that appear in the film are affiliated with it in any way, nor have approved its contents.".

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Notes of Ranvier: June 2013

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Interesting things from an overly-curious science nerd. What does Notes of Ranvier mean? Monday, June 3, 2013. Getting Sprung: The Biological Underpinnings of Spring Fever. This article is being published here with permission from The Synapse. It originally appeared in the Spring 2013 edition of The Synapse. Is Spring Fever merely a social construct or is it an artifact of evolution? Overall, the scientific literature on Spring Fever is sparse. Just as it is impossible to appreciate light without dar...

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Notes of Ranvier: May 2012

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Interesting things from an overly-curious science nerd. What does Notes of Ranvier mean? Tuesday, May 15, 2012. I just wanted to write this to explain my absence. In the last few weeks I left my job at the lab and decided to move back home to Ohio. I did this because I wanted more time to focus on what I really want to do, which is to write about science. The first step in that process, after the move, was to attend the science writer's workshop. Here are some photos from Santa Fe:. These are my friends.

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Notes of Ranvier: August 2013

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Interesting things from an overly-curious science nerd. What does Notes of Ranvier mean? Monday, August 26, 2013. On working in Food Service. What Food Service taught me. There's an ass in every chair and everyone needs something. Run table 1's food, on your way back grab table 5's check and ask how table 6 is doing. Run table 5's check and then stop by table 8 on the way back to take their order. Boom. Efficiency. Kill 'em with kindness. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. More on that later. When taking...