Dormivigilia

I usually watch South Park while eating dinner. Today’s episode from Season 12, which documents the increasing homeless problem in South Park that Kyle believes was due to giving an “ungrateful” homeless person $20, and not the recent housing crash, reminded me of all the episodes in which science is used to resolve South Parkian [...]

Over the past ten days, I have been chillaxing in Fort Myers, Florida and the surrounding area with my mom’s family for the 1st Annual Evanoff (my mom’s maiden name) Extravaganza. The week was booked with numerous festivities beginning as early as 4 AM (four hour travel to Universal Studios) and as late at 2 [...]

This past week, Ohio has been pounded with nasty weather, including an earthquake on Wednesday!!!! Yesterday morning, I was awoken by torrential rain and thunder. Though I did not have any storm-related electrical issues, Montegraphia did, which I soon discovered after entering his apartment last night to feed his herps and fish and subsequently being [...]

This time of the year in Ohio, it’s quite easy to be distracted by buzzing cicadas in the day and crickets at night. South Africa is experiencing a more menacing epidemic, however, one that was highly distracting to myself and other fellow Heptagonal athletes back in 2004 , when a Dartmouth athlete decided to blare a [...]

Today began the end of the 2010 indoor/outdoor high school track season (sort of an oxymoron) with the District Tournament. Though some hearts were broken, such as a false start and subsequent DQ by a top-ranked 4 x 200 m sprint relay team, my pole vaulting athletes came through though while straining my heart. In [...]

Many college students, young professionals, and children of the 70s (and shockingly my high school athletes) know that yesterday was the unofficial recognition day of the world’s most popular hallucinogenic (side note: Why? I’ve investigated about whether or not the date was related to THC’s chemical architecture or pharmacological properties, but perhaps I should stop [...]

To continue highlighting articles featured in Discover: The Brain, I introduce neuroprosthetics. Neuroprostethics are electronic devices engineered for individuals suffering from permanent disabilities, ranging from blindness, deafness, and possibly someday day, paralysis. Currently available prosthetics include cochlear implants, which stimulate the auditory nerve of the inner ear to restore hearing, though the ability to listen [...]

Since my week’s vacation spent in the Dominican Republic, playing soccer on the beach, snorkeling with tiger sharks (both unanticipated and unpleasant), and eating delicious Caribbean rice, beans, and helado (ice cream), several New Yorkers have collected in my mailbox (I apologize Mr. Mailman for not giving my roommate the key). Anyways, lucky for me, [...]

Today, I presented to my Vertebrate Embyrology lab an article by Neil Shubin, author of the best-selling nonfiction book Your Inner Fish, describing particular gastrointestinal maladies manifesting from our evolutionary transition from aquatic to terrestrial life. For example, humans are susceptible to hernias because the descension of the testes and the convolutions of the spermatic [...]

For psychiatric disorders, the quantity and quality of treatment is always a concern. Some doctors argue drugs only, others advocate cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT; or less common forms of psychotherapy), while another school insists a balance of psychiatry and psychotherapy. In addition, some common pharmacological therapeutics, such as antidepressants, are utilized to treat a wide [...]