Oh god, when that happened I actually felt bad for him. It seemed like the kind of thing that could happen to me, socially awkward as I am.

“This is what occasionally cut, washed only as needed, finger-styled hair looks like” - for some people might be the part you’re forgetting here.

We always vote at our kitchen table, with the voter’s pamphlet and the internet at hand. I think it makes us more informed voters.

“Come to an understanding” is going to be my new favorite euphemism.

Well, I haven’t heard Ted Cruz say he didn’t shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die. Why is Ted Cruz refusing to address this rumor? What does he have to hide? #shotamaninreno-gate

Hey, maybe this is a step up! Instead of blaming women for men who rape and murder (if only she had been nicer and not hurt his feelings he never would have been compelled to commit violent acts against women!) we can blame the NFL for not drafting every sad man who wants to play professional football.

I agree. There’s a lot of potential arguments for and against where the generational cutoff should be, but for me it’s 9/11. I was in college and a voting (if not legally drinking) adult. Compared to kids who don’t even remember 9/11, it feels like they’re lumping together two groups who grew up in completely…

At a fairly fancy restaurant last week, I ordered pesto ravioli. They came in a steep-sided bowl. Since the individual pastas were too big for a single bite but the shape of the bowl made it impossible to cut them with either a fork or a knife, I had to spear one and then nibble it off my fork. Generally I’m all for…

I can’t speak for Sodburger, but some of us want the kids and the chance to be good parents as well as the great career we invested so much time and effort into getting started. “Having it all” for women doesn’t mean making a billion bucks and a giant McMansion and hosting glorious dinner parties and weekends spent…

Which would be why anyone with any knowledge of statistics rolls their eyes at virtually every medical study that gets reported in the media. I don’t have a problem with a proof-of-concept or yes-this-method-works-let’s-do-the-study little projects before funding something, but then talking to the media as if it’s a…

That’s great for whatever field you work in, but it’s not true in all areas of research.

18 individuals- not per treatment, but total- is not enough even for a pilot study unless the difference between treatments was really huge (like all the babies in one treatment died). It’s not even enough to get you an accurate variance so that you could use the pilot study in a power analysis to find out what your…

Smelling each others pee is like Facebook for pets. Hmm... what is so and so feeling? How stressed are they? What have they been eating?

My job is to evaluate scientific studies that involve between thousands and hundreds of thousands of independent samples. This leads to much eye-rolling at almost every medical study ever.

That’s why I make sure I’m awake by 11:00 AM. It’s really that 30 minutes of peace and quiet that makes being a morning person so rewarding.

My mom and I long ago decided that if we ever won lottery or sweepstakes or whatever, we’d take the maximum amount of time allowed before claiming to get all our shit together, get lawyers and financial advisers we could trust, and make a plan before stepping into the spotlight. Of course, we’re sensible people like…

My exact thought! “No parent is ready to send their kid to daycare full time at three months old?” Think again. My best friend said something along the lines of “by the time I drop baby off at daycare, I’m ready for working with adults. By the time I’m at the end of my workday, I’m so excited to see the baby. I’m…

It is awful how hard it is to get anything done about harassment in academia. And trust me, if you’re a female student and you’re being harassed by your female advisor, NOBODY is going to believe you.

She had to redo Kanye’s whole bathroom!

Okay, these all look gross. But, if I do say so myself, I make a pretty amazing goat cheese ice cream with figs. I serve it with apples and nuts as a dessert/cheese platter.