The annual Society for Neuroscience meeting begins this Saturday, November 15th and you can bet that NeuWriteSD will be there! Many of us will be presenting our own work at the meeting as well as tweeting and blogging about it. Below you can find out what we’re excited about for this year’s meeting as well […]
October
31
Young Blood
posted by Ashley Juavinett
The modus operandi of a vampire is pretty straightforward: drink blood, live forever. Vampires consume more blood and live longer than everyone else, so surely, these two things are related. But how exactly does blood allow vampires to live forever? In an effort to find the root cause of immortality in vampirism (okay, kidding, they’re […]
October
30
Analyze your zombie walk
posted by asyakurnikova
Imagine a zombie costume. You probably see – pale, bloody makeup, ripped clothes, dead-eyed stare. All of that preparation, however, would not be convincing if the zombie were to just move around normally. In fact “Walking Dead” special effects artist/director Greg Nicotero teaches a school on how to lumber around like a zombie for […]
October
29
The Dark Art of Computer Learning
posted by erikkaestner
It is a well-established fact that computers will one day rise up to kill us all. But what is rapidly becoming clear is that they first intend to humiliate us before their xenocidal rampage. A recent report found that roughly half of current U.S. jobs currently filled by humans are likely to be taken by […]
October
28
The Threatening Mask
posted by Xi Jiang
Oh!—fruit loved of boyhood!—the old days recalling, When wood-grapes were purpling and brown nuts were falling! When wild, ugly faces we carved in its skin, Glaring out through the dark with a candle within! —John Greenleaf Whittier, The Pumpkin (1850) The stanza above captures both the joyful abundance of the fall and the terrible artistic […]
October
27
NeuWrite Reads: Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? by Timothy Verstynen and Bradley Voytek
posted by socogal42
If you’ve come to our website via Google, there’s a good chance it’s because you wanted to know about zombies. The search term that brings the most people to our site by far is “are zombies real?”. Ashley’s post is an awesome primer on real-life zombies, but for those of you who want to go […]
October
23
Cerebellar Pruning
posted by Ashley Juavinett
One day you’re chopping down an unwanted palm tree, the next you’re flashing your machete through a dense forest in god knows where. The life of a tree hacker boasted plenty of travel opportunity, but not a lot of stability. Camille swung her weapon through yet another thicket. “We better be getting bonuses for this […]
October
16
Lithium: Wonder Drug? Part II
posted by kkiritah
Note from the author: This post is dedicated to my biology nerds out there. If you follow my Gene-of-the-Week posts (and you should because they’re the weirdest), you know that I often get lost in the cellular and molecular details of life, and it’s totally overwhelming. I wrote this post specifically to discuss the mechanisms […]
October
10
Kickstarting Science
posted by Margot Wohl
Science has a problem. Government research funding is on the decline and competition for this grant money is on the rise. A researcher must spend a large amount of his or her time trying to wrangle money from government agencies or private foundations to keep his or her lab afloat. The commitment to writing grants […]
October
02
Lithium: Wonder Drug? Part I
posted by Melissa Troyer
I’m so happy ’cause today I’ve found my friends They’re in my head What comes to mind when you hear the word lithium? A drug used to manage life-threatening mood disorders? A potentially deadly toxin? A chemical found in trace amounts in many compounds in nature? (Or maybe just the Nirvana song?) Any of these […]
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