Developmental dyslexia is a disorder affecting as many as 17% of school children. This neurological disorder involves an impairment in reading skills, and has been found to be “associated with weak reading-related activity in left temporoparietal and occipitotemporal regions” in English speakers. However, different abnormalities in the brain are associated with dyslexic readers in the […]

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I spent all day yesterday in Madison, Wisconsin, at a conference on Landscape Ecology and infectious disease. I’ll discuss a few of the talks and issues below, but I wanted to start out with a bit of an introduction and explain just what landscape ecology (LE) is.
The introductory talk, which covered this ground, was […]

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In today’s mail, I received a catalog from Acacia and browsed through it as I ate lunch. Acacia has a interesting mix of delightful items and, while some feel a bit overpriced to me, I always enjoy looking. What caught my fancy this afternoon was a simple T-shirt. Smack in the center of the shirt […]

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In today’s mail, I received a catalog from Acacia and browsed through it as I ate lunch. Acacia has a interesting mix of delightful items and, while some feel a bit overpriced to me, I always enjoy looking. What caught my fancy this afternoon was a simple T-shirt. Smack in the center of the shirt […]

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The new NIH public access policy mandating deposition of manuscripts describing work supported under NIH awards into the PubMed Central (PMC) repository takes effect this week. Predictably, the Open Access Nozdrul are spurring their porkers onward with great vigor.
I don’t have too much more to say about this at the moment, as I’ve previously […]

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One of the most popular fitness trends in our little college town over the past few years has been yoga. Friends and acquaintances often suggest we join them in their favorite class, claiming not only that we’ll get stronger and more flexible, but that we’ll feel better about ourselves.
But Greta and I both have fitness […]

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In a post Abel Pharmboy wrote giving some linklove to our old site on WordPress, he lamented:
However, NIH/NSF/other-big-agency grant-funded PhD researchers who spend most of their bandwidth talking about the business of conducting biomedical research are less frequently found as bloggers; DrugMonkey is one of the few out there.
It strikes me that beyond the obvious […]

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As I have mentioned here before, one of the studies I am working on evaluates the impact of documentary film across audiences, news coverage, and policy contexts. I have written short introductions or columns on this topic in the past with a focus on Inconvenient Truth. While searching around for additional data, I ran across […]

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