Two weeks ago, I posted about how your mother’s nutrition during gestation could have influenced your circadian rhythm today (e.g. your mother may have determined whether you’re an evening o...
https://cutehackergirl.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/you-can-blame-your-mother-for-obesity-now/
As a graduate student myself, I’m finding this blog rather entertaining: it’s entitled 100 Reasons NOT to Go to Graduate School. Only 83 reasons have been proposed so far, but it brings up s...
https://cutehackergirl.wordpress.com/2012/05/24/why-not-to-go-to-graduate-school/
When I came across this study published recently in Social Psychological and Personality Science, it was just too hilarious not to mention. A researcher at Loyola University collected experim...
Accumulation of short/damaged telomeres with increasing age is considered one of the main sources of aging-associated DNA damage capable of causing loss of the regenerative capacity of tissues...
https://cutehackergirl.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/want-to-live-longer-inject-this-virus/
Research suggests that people tend to take on the personalities of the main characters in books they read. So try not to read too many books about serial killers! Try to read about characters w...
https://cutehackergirl.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/be-careful-what-you-read/
The Obama Administration has launched a new national strategy against Alzheimer’s disease. My grandmother was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Unfortunately the diagnosis came much too l...
https://cutehackergirl.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/u-s-plans-to-sucker-punch-alzheimers/
Researchers at UCSD are working on tattoos for monitoring “uterine contractions, fetal heart rate and oxygen, and maternal heart rate and body temperature”. A friend of mine — an artist wit...
https://cutehackergirl.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/tattoos-and-unborn-babies/
Based on the title of this post, you may think this is a case study in scientific fraud. Unfortunately, it’s not! Nobuhiro Takahashi of the University of Electro-Communications has created a hu...
https://cutehackergirl.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/scientist-pulls-research-out-of-ass/
Listen up kids! There may be just one more thing you can blame your parents for! The research group of John B. Hogenesch at the University of Pennsylvania have recently discovered that an offspri...
https://cutehackergirl.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/can-you-blame-your-mother-for-your-circadian-rhythm/
I’m super psyched about the Elder Scrolls Online, although it’s still at least a year away! Bethesda hit a homerun with Skyrim last year. I always felt like Skyrim was missing something… an...
https://cutehackergirl.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/getting-pumped-for-elder-scrolls-online/