Yes, I know, it’s been quite some time since my last post.  What a bad blogger am I!  And after sixteen (!) years of Catholic school, can you just imagine the guilt I’m heaping on myself??

Life, that heartless force, has repeatedly intervened by throwing to-do’s into my path.  Among the obstacles are work, sleep, traffic, and saving puppies from burning buildings.  You know, the usual.

So to help ease me back into posting, a fun link for you fans of Sesame Street is here.

Although I know how much you delight in reading the random spaz (at right, from googling ‘random spaz’) that comes out of my mind, it seems only fair to occasionally — and only occasionally, mind you — offer some random spaz from others.

So here are three pieces from a science email newsletter:

a)  Meditation helps increase attention span so you can

b)  Finally, techies make something useful:  A robot that fetches beers!  Captured live!  On video!

c)  An argument that our universe is actually the center of a black hole inside another universe.  (And you thought you felt small before.)  I know you’re busy and all, esp because this is other people’s random spaz, but here’s a sampling, just to tantalize you: “The torsion of spacetime prevents teh appearance of the cosmological singularity in the early Universe filled with Dirac particles averaged as a spin fluid.”
So what are you waiting for?!

So you knew that the hormone oxytocin makes women more trusting.  Turns out that testosterone makes some of them less trusting.  The NYT writes up the study results here.

And just when, you know, we had the females thiiiiiiisssss close to figured out.