The judges have chosen a winner in the Mad Honey Sex Limerick Competition, which asked for a limerick to honor the study "Mad Honey Sex: Therapeutic Misadventures From an Ancient Biological Weapon," Ahmet Demircan, et al., Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2009.

The winner is INVESTIGATOR LESLIE ROSENBLOOD, who wrote:

Alternative "doctors" use honey
To ( Read more... )

In this new genetic world, you get bombarded with offers to test you for a multitude of things, from baldness and caffeine metabolising capacity to breast cancer and Huntington's disease. Is it useful? Will you get something out of it?

Maybe.

The first two is just for laughs, but the second two means business. What if your result means that you ( Read more... )

As a person with little to no artistic talent, I admire people who can make their vision come to be; whatever media they choose. Especially when the talent is used to highlight issues that would draw yawns, for the most part.

Kudos to the University of North Carolina biology department for illuminating their guest speakers' events using gorgeous, ( Read more... )

They say that when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And in the case of Albert Shadle and Daniel Po-Chedley, when a porcupine falls on your lap and impales you with seventy odd quills, write a paper.

Apparently, removing a quill "is very painful unless done with a quick movement which jerks the quill straight back in the opposite direction from ( Read more... )