BlogHide Resteemsben.zimmerman (55)in funny • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.My First Short Story on Dbooks!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…resteemedtimoshey (59)in writing • 7 years agoSay Hello To DBooks: A Book Publishing Platform On STEEM - Publish Your Books And Earn.Introduction steemit is a social platform, where people share their original contents and get rewarded for them according to the strength of the upvotes gotten from other users. Thanks to…ben.zimmerman (55)in dbooks • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Treats in the Basement Chapter 6: VIThis 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.…ben.zimmerman (55)in dbooks • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Treats in the Basement Chapter 5: VIn 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…ben.zimmerman (55)in dbooks • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Treats in the Basement Chapter 4: IVTo 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…ben.zimmerman (55)in dbooks • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Treats in the Basement Chapter 3: IIINever 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…ben.zimmerman (55)in dbooks • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Treats in the Basement Chapter 2: IIOne 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…ben.zimmerman (55)in dbooks • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Treats in the Basement Chapter 1: IProfessor 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…ben.zimmerman (55)in science • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Understanding the Mental IllnessPart 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…ben.zimmerman (55)in science • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.More humans currently alive than dead - DEBUNKED!!!!!!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…ben.zimmerman (55)in nature • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Scientific Creativity - Mother Nature as a MuseScience 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…ben.zimmerman (55)in science • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.How small should p-values be in the life sciences?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…ben.zimmerman (55)in news • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Sessions' Sloppy StatsToday 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…ben.zimmerman (55)in science • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Why is Exercise Good for the Brain? An Evolutionary Neuroscience PerspectiveAn Evolutionary Neuroscience Perspective We recently started a discussion on the utility of evolutionary neuroscience on current applications and understanding. In that discussion, I brought…ben.zimmerman (55)in science • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.The Neocortex (?!?!?!) of an Extinct Cousin - Action Potential - June 26, 2017Meet 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…ben.zimmerman (55)in science • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Why is science wrong sometimes?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…ben.zimmerman (55)in science • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Action Potential - June 12, 2017The 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…ben.zimmerman (55)in academic • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Addendum to Article on Steemit AddictionI 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…ben.zimmerman (55)in academic • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Action Potential - February 7, 2017Senator, 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…ben.zimmerman (55)in science • 8 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Action Potential - Jan 24, 2017Poopy 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…
