ben.zimmerman

Hi Steemians, I just posted my first short story on dbooks, an awesome place to publish collections of things that you write on the steemit blockchain. I feel like steemit is an awesome place to practice

This was an unexpected disasterfor Flard, and also for Dion who had committed fully to his role asco-conspirator. They had to move quickly if they were to get the undergraduatefired before he left. As

In the basement, the scene wasunfolding exactly as the sagely Dion had expected. After making sure that noone was impaled, the nice young woman in the basement asked young Larmy if hecould still finish

To say that the scene dismayedFlard would be a gross understatement. He was devastated by the discovery ofthis most improper love affair. First of all, Flard had reviewedhis ethics-in-the-workplace

Never suspecting his eminentadvisor of such complete lapses of morning memories, Rupert Flard concludedthat this note must have been meant for him, as a flirtatious gesture from hislove interest. He quickly

One who reads such a note,without the image of any nice young woman in a basement, may interpret such amessage as a cheeky invitation to forget about what was best for one’s healthand diet for just one

Professor Bateman began his Wednesday as he began many daysin his progressively vaguer weeks, by waking up with a start from his chair asit began to slip backwards, banging his knee in the usual place

Part of what I want to do with this blog is to help advertise certain movements in science, especially those that I find useful. Today I want to talk about the science around mental illness. Mental illness

Someone once told me, as one of those interesting facts that you wouldn’t believe, that more humans were alive than dead. Due to exponential growth, they claimed, more humans were currently roaming the

Science as Analysis and Art A lot of what I enjoy writing about is how scientists think about the world. I like to share those perspectives and to invite everyone into scientific discussion. I tend to

What's a p-value? In the life sciences, the bread and butter of scientific progress is hypothesis testing, where the scientist tries to disprove a “null hypothesis” in favor of some “alternative hypothesis.”

Today I’m taking a break from the usual science reporting to critically discuss some other reporting on statistics. I watched a news clip this morning with great frustration as a pair of local newscasters

An Evolutionary Neuroscience Perspective We recently started a discussion on the utility of evolutionary neuroscience on current applications and understanding. In that discussion, I brought up some of

Meet Grandpa! This is a therapsid, the ancient animal of which a hot, new paleontology thesis is making the rounds this week regarding the emergence of the much-vaunted brain module, the neocortex. The

Setting the Scene Why is science wrong sometimes? This is the question that I want to address, largely as a follow-up to @kyriacos‘s recent articles (link, link). I think this is an important issue to

The newest alcohol study… I’ll preface this to say that I don’t intend any of this to be healthcare advice, and I’m not that kind of doctor. Any aficionado of science news will have spent roughly half

I recently became aware that an article that I wrote did not properly attribute the super catchy phrase, 'ludic loop' to the creator. The term was coined by Natasha Dow Schüll, who wrote the book

Senator, Ph.D. There’s been a lot of talk recently of attempting to get trained scientists into political positions. Critics may look at this as another overreaction of the sore-loser, whining liberals

Poopy science One thing I’ve learned from my short tenure in science is that often, when you get a result that is really surprising and difficult to explain, it ends up being wrong or explained by something

What about humans In neuroscience, culturing neurons and other brain cells is old hat. You’ve probably seen plenty of videos and pictures of neurons firing, growing, eating, transporting stuff, and turning