geek love

When I was little, I used to tell people I wanted to be an astrophysicist when I grew up. I didn’t just like the way it sounded. After being raised on PBS my whole life, all the NOVA shows were starting to take their toll on me and I was developing a genuine interest in science. Too bad I ended up hating physics. Oh well… I coulda been a contender!

I wish I could say definitively that I am either a left or right brained person. Unfortunately, I think I’m evenly split and it makes for a very indecisive me. I love everything and want to be everything!

So, here are some geeky links to satisfy the left side of my brain which doesn’t always get a warm reception in social settings.

• Monogomous rodents give up when their mates are gone.
• Another reason loud music is bad for you… it makes you drink more!
• Speaking about drinking – this informative post about the making of Šljivovica, a plum rakija, took me back to being little, sick with a cold and all out of medicine. It was a common thing for my mom to give me a little cough syrup cup’s worth and I would be knocked out for the whole day and wake up feeling great! My Serbian grandma would sneak bottles of it through customs in her many layers of sweaters back in the day.

THE BULK:

• Discover Magazine - get the RSS feed!
• PsyBlog – yay for psych majors!
• Keep up with what’s going on with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN!
• They’re currently working on Hubble… check out what this enormous telescope/camera can do!
• Science Daily is all business… no fluff
• I enjoy the Geek section on Fark.com
• JAMA has free articles and is peer-reviewed and can be trusted, for the most part.
• I’m not in IT but I like to keep up with what’s up regardless.

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