Science with Moxie

Every musician’s dream is to travel the world, be critically acclaimed, and be able to listen to four different pieces of music simultaneously. Alright, so maybe that last part is a bit more of a pipe dream than the first two. However, this highly unusual simultaneous listening ability is a skill that ragtime pianist Bob [...]

This blog has been quite quiet the past few months, since between taking my comprehensive exams, two short tours, and starting thesis work I've been super busy. But there is another reason I have been quiet. I'm beyond honored to say that this blog, Science with Moxie, has a new home on the brand-new Scientific American blogging Network.Please check me out there, update your RSS feeds, and check out all the other fantastic people with whom I share a new home.

Tomorrow starts my band's second East Coast tour. As luck would have it, we're going to be playing very close to the #nycscitweetup, which is March 7th at 7 pm at Ninth Ward. Our show is a short L-train ride away in Brooklyn, at Public Assembly. We go on at 10:30 pm, which means I will be able to hang out with science people for a bit in Manhattan, then jump over to Brooklyn to play a show, hopefully with some other sci people in attendance! It's probably the SciMuse dream if there ever was one [...]

Can rock music boil an egg?This is what is proposed by this quote, found on various internet locations of less than scientific repute:"Bob Larson, a Christian minister and former rock musician, remembers that in the 70's teens would bring raw eggs to a rock concert and put them on the front of the stage. The eggs would be hard boiled by the music before the end of the concert and could be eaten. Dr. Earl W. Flosdorf and Dr. Leslie A. Chambers showed that proteins in a liquid medium were [...]

This post is so long overdue, but I really wanted to blog about my second year attending the ScienceOnline (un)conference held in Research Triangle Park, NC. Even though I attended the conference last year as well, this year managed to top even my glowing review of 2010's event.The main difference between this year and last year for me was that I was able to participate in some of the pre-conference festivities this time around. Thursday night was a presentation by the organizers of the [...]