Oh wow, Jeni's has amazing flavors... Goat cheese with red cherries?

What is this magic you speak of? I must find it.

If they made it dairy free I'd be in heaven... I'd still try it with dairy, I'd just have some regrets later.

That's awesome! Definitely a useful skill... I feel like half of my work is making effective figures.

Honestly, I would just talk with the schools... preferably before the beginning of the semester when they're setting up lesson plans. I've been able to coordinate with high schools to teach a special one day segment in evolution about origins of life (our lab studies RNA, so my boss is pretty into origins)... at least…

Honestly, I would just talk with the schools... preferably before the beginning of the semester when they're setting up lesson plans. I've been able to coordinate with high schools to teach a special one day segment in evolution about origins of life (our lab studies RNA, so my boss is pretty into origins)... at least…

Yeah, I'm funded through a NSF grant that partially supports an educational outreach program ran my myself and our PI... so I definitely know all about that. Thankfully, my PI is actually into it. It's almost impossible to convince him that I should be the one talking to 3rd graders since "he knows how to talk to…

Yeah, I'm a PhD student that's a fairly strong writer wanting out of academia... I'm aiming to stay in industry, public policy or patent law. I'm pretty weird for even actively considering public policy as an alternative. Scientific journalism isn't really seen as a viable alternative for doctoral students - and those…

io9 does a decent job, definitely better than they do over here at Jezebel. My main issue with how Gawker Media addresses science is that often times they are writing their own interpretations of articles on research from the NYT or some larger publishing house... rather than writing based off of the source directly.…

Yeah, I think everyone is different... just a random aside, I was looking for a related compound in pubmed a few minutes earlier - and at least to the community that studies drugs and their usage, ecstasy is considered to be MDMA but is noted for often containing contaminants or for being an entirely different drug.

Based on my quick pubmed search, most of the articles on MDE either briefly mention it has having similar physiological effects as MDMA (lowered body temperature, some issues with dopamine) or involve purification/identification of compounds.

I'm basing this off of years and years ago from the website pill reports, which was compiled of testing data from various presses of ecstasy on the market (one of my HS friends was a dealer, so I often saw his "research" for purchasing)... and the claims they made about it. They at least used to be a fairly…

It's somewhat safe to announce after a good heartbeat has been detected, which (I believe) can occur as early as 5-6 weeks... your odds of miscarriage reduce dramatically in these cases (assuming it's strong). But, you're still not really out of the dangerzone until 12-16 weeks.

Good analogy! I think users just (often) have the expectation that there MIGHT be something else in the pill... but if there's not, everyone's happy!

Purity, in the case of drugs, generally refers to the active compound/synthesis byproducts/contaminating biologically active compounds. Basically, everything that goes into the binders. Like, for example, purity of L-dopa is generally the ratio of L-dopa to D-dopa, a biologically inactive isomer of the drug that's the…

Molly vs. ecstasy often (in my experience) refers to the form of MDMA rather than the contents... molly being powdered and ecstasy being in pill form. I think Molly has a reputation for being of a higher purity because it's much easier to visually determine purity (color, texture, clumping).

I'm thirding the stance that ecstasy can refer to a variety of things. The idea that it is most often MDMA and amphetamine is generally considered to be an urban legend.

Is that really a bad reason? I mean... that seems like a pretty clear sign that your priorities are elsewhere.

I think we had almost the same GRE score! I had an 800 quant and 700 verbal... horrible writing score though, which was kind of hilarious since I am supposedly a pretty good writer?

I know for various engineering programs (like electrical and mechanical) your changes of admission into grad school are basically zero if you can't get an 800 on the math section. Bragging about their 800s was a huge joke among my engineer friends.