Iggy DeLacey

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We'll miss you Abe! 

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I'm answering some of your science and medical questions while I still have time! Like, free time, not time on this Earth. I hope. 

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Hit me up on Twitter with more of your science and medicine questions! Tweet @IggyDeLacey using the hashtag #AskIggy.

Check out my blogs - http://pbly.co/FMDweird

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Watch out for this one. It's known for its periodic sneak attacks! 

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It's time for another installment of Ask Iggy , the show where I answer your pressing science and medical questions! Unless it’s about the dead guy. Let’s just...not talk about the dead guy...

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Today on the blog, I'll be filling you in on a subject that's been taking over my brain: Zombies.

Check out my post about "The ScienZe of Zombies" here. 

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Ahoy, mateys! Let’s set sail into a stormy sea of science and medical questions on today’s Ask Iggy!

Hit me up on Twitter with more of your science and medicine questions!  Tweet @IggyDeLacey using the hashtag #AskIggy.

Check out my blogs - http://pbly.co/FMDweird

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Rosalind Franklin.  She performed the x-ray crystallography that helped Watson and Crick identify the double helix shape of DNA.  They got a Nobel Prize, but she was too classy for that.  And she was dead. But mostly she was too classy.

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MY GIRL ROSIE 

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Do Zombies Exist? By Dwayne Godwin and Jorge Cham

Source: Scientific American

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Chew on this. 

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Hey man... sometimes you just gotta make the most out of your situation. 

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There’s another lunar eclipse this year and it’s happening tomorrow night! (That’s Tuesday night — in other words the wee hours of Wednesday morning). Europe and Africa will be left out this time around, but viewers in North America and Asia will get the chance to see the moon pass through the earth’s shadow. Details from NASA here.

This eclipse is extra special because it might be a rare selenelion.

Don’t ask me how to pronounce that word, but here’s what it means: the refraction of light through Earth’s atmosphere makes both sun and moon appear higher in the sky then they really are. So at moonset/sunrise on Wednesday morning, a few lucky observers east of the Mississippi might glimpse the sun and the eclipsed moon AT THE SAME TIME! Geometrically impossible, and well worth setting your alarms for.

I put approximate moonset times in this GIF, but you should look up the specific schedule for your location here.

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BLOOD MOON, BABY! Spoooooky.

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Talking about my favorite "failed" experiments on the blog. Check it out here!

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Welcome back to "Ask Iggy," where an actual, certified doctor answers all your medical and science questions. YEEHAW!

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Scientists have developed a new technique that uses the individual sweat pores on a person’s finger to map their entire fingerprint. It’s so effective it can work on a fragment of a fingerprint and could help solve decades-old cold cases. Read more: http://bit.ly/1isb6YF

source 

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I guess I should rethink my life of crime. They'd catch me clammy-handed.

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I answer your questions… with iggydelacey's help. 

See our answers here.

*Note: We have varying degrees of agreement on certain topics. I suggest when in doubt, go with mine. 

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That's more like it. 

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Bringing you the latest news from the Dark Lord's lab. 

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Let us take a moment to pay tribute to the mighty warriors of science. 

This video brought tears to my eyes.

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Happy birthday to medical superhero William Stewart Halsted! If he were alive today he'd be 162. That would be pretty unbelievable. 

Things you should know about this great man: He established the first residency program in the US and pioneered a whole lot of fields. Like, a lot. This one time he did an emergency blood transfusion on his sister using his own blood and it was one of the first times anyone had ever done a blood transfusion, ever. How cool is that? Also he liked giving cocaine to his patients - what a guy. 

Hear more about him and how he introduced tons of the techniques we're still using today.Thanks Dr. Halsted, for paving the way!