Category Archives: Science Sunday

This is a post about two seemingly unrelated subjects. The first is Parkinson’s disease. It’s a disease known for striking the old, causing hands that just can’t stop shaking. In extreme cases, patients display an odd inability to initiate movement on their own. They just sit there, seemingly deprived of all movement. But if you [...]

Reading up on caffeine in preparing to write this post, I found that scientists who have caffeine as their drug of choice (as a subject of study) like pointing out that it is the most widely used psychoactive drug in the world. This surprised me at first. Had you asked me to guess what that [...]

This edition of Science Sunday was inspired by a somewhat-old post at Liberal Debutante, which begins as follows: Apparently a new drug to battle obesity would have effects on children’s brains… Other researchers have found that cannabinoid receptor blockers interfere with neural connectivity in rat brains — a phenomenon that in humans is associated with [...]

Last week on Science Sunday, I wrote about why the retina is cool. This week, I want to talk about why Botox is the coolest protein known to man, and by man I mean this particular man, as other scientists may well know of cooler proteins out there. First: what is Botox? Most people know [...]