Just in time for Valentines Day, Scientific American has an article on oxytocin and long-lasting love. If cupid had studied neuroscience, he’d know to aim his arrows at the brain rather than the heart. Recent research suggests that for love to last, it’s best he dip those arrows in oxytocin. This article is better than …
Category Archive: From the old blog
Feb 12 2013
Happy Birthday Charles Darwin!
In honor of his birthday today (sorry, Abe Lincoln, I don’t have one for you): On the newsstand at the stationThere it was, a publicationWith a bold prevaricationWhere it asked “Was Darwin Wrong?”Darwin stands among the giantsOf our modern view of scienceSo, in answer and defianceI’m replying in this song: Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin, take …
Feb 11 2013
The Pope Is Stepping Down
So in his honor, a verse that speculates on what really goes on in the college of cardinals as they go about the business of selecting a new guy to wear the funny hat: We struggle in vain to distinguish a MassFrom your typical Zombie behaviorAs they guzzle down red by the bottle or glassAnd …
Feb 05 2013
When The Fetus Took The Stand To Testify…
… Because Bill O’Reilly has a short memory, he must have forgotten that Congress already tried to take testimony from a fetus. Republican Congressmen sat in committeeAnd called, as their witness, young Tommy.His presence was purely an act to draw pity;The lad was still stuck in his mommy. Their witness, unable to swear or affirm, …
Jan 17 2013
Not Sad, Just Amused
I got a payment from Lulu today (somewhere in the low double digits), representing my Christmas revenue from my books. Seven people got a copy of one of my books–in four countries on two continents! Which is really cool, actually. Ok, three of them got free copies (word to the wise–this means if you look …
Jan 09 2013
Updating The Menu (Halal Mermaid!)
Via Ed, we hear that there has been a change of dietary heart. Whereas it was apparently once the case that mermaid were officially (there was an official fatwa) off the menu, Ed reports that mermaids A) exist, and B) are halal. I really never thought I’d have the appropriate excuse to repost this one, …
Dec 09 2012
Billy Joel Takes On Ray Comfort
Ed tells us of Ray Comfort’s new series, in which he takes on prominent atheists. My title is a nod to Ed’s “Ray Comfort takes on Billy Joel”. The following was written a few years ago at the old place (click through for context), but it seems appropriate now. It’s an afternoon post on Pharyngula, …
Oct 22 2012
Happy Fechner Day 2012!
162 years ago today, Gustav Theodor Fechner awoke from a dream which would change his life, and the course of science itself. In his dream, Fechner had discovered the key to studying sensation and perception, the method to measure the mind itself. Of course we cannot simply turn up some switch and increase your awareness, …
Sep 08 2012
Oh, Those Undecided Voters
There was a voter, undecided, Though I cannot fathom why; Perhaps a faulty compass guided Him, as days and weeks flew by. Friends would prod, and neighbors chided “Such an indecisive guy!” With rapt attention undivided All would roll their eyes and sigh. The networks parked where he resided (Never was he camera-shy) The interviews …
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Dec 10 2012
Equality Stops At The Border
current events, From the old blog, GLBT, social commentary
by Cuttlefish
I’ve been following, as best as an ignorant mollusk can, the analysis of the recent decisions by the Supreme Court to take on a couple of cases on same-sex marriage. Ed has done a great job dissecting the choice, and today the New York Times has a really useful sidebar on it. What I can’t …
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