Role reversal! Today's top in Edinburg, Texas: 9 degrees C. (Felt like 5 degrees C, according to the meteorologists.) Today's top...

This comic pretty much says it all. Otherwise, how are things? I'm in the last two weeks of classes. Luckily, by having my classes tau...

Policing Walked into my second lecture this morning, and was puzzled to see men in uniform with microphones attached to their shoulders. T...

Ad busting A few entries back, I mentioned that I had an ad appear in the middle of one of my classes. The ad was for a university diploma...

Consulting On Thursday and Friday, spent some time with a consultant. Some branch of the University has hired him to help people turn in m...

Equipment arrives! A delivery man finally rolled into my office with two packages from the U.K. Specifically, two packages from CED : my a...

Society for Neuroscience 2002, Part 5 Tuesday, 5 November: SFN 3 We have a late afternoon flight, which means I get to spend half a day ...

No, I'm not talking about equipment for tracking, I'm talking about tracking equipment that's coming to me. One of the last majo...

"And a little of this applied once a day will remove wrinkles virtually overnight!" Maybe that what's the goof in the cente...

Society for Neuroscience 2002, Part 4 Monday, 4 November: SFN 2 One of the fun things about a meeting like this is stumbling across litt...

Interruptions Spam. Every time you think it couldn't get more annoying, somebody proves you wrong. I was in the middle of a General B...

Society for Neuroscience 2002, Part 3 Sunday, 3 November: SFN 1 The main event gets cracking on Sunday in the Orlando Convention Center,...

Society for Neuroscience 2002 Report, Part 2 Saturday, 2 November: Hookey and ISN Executive The main item on my agenda, the ISN Executi...

Society for Neuroscience 2002 Report, Part 1 31 October: Travel. Air travel is fast and efficient... once you're in the air, that is...

I’m back in Texas, and catching up on the pile of work the accumulated in my absence. It was definitely worth it, though, as I had many inte...

Update from Florida The J.B. Johnston Club meeting and the executive committee meeting of the International Society for Neuroethology are ...

The BIG meeting is coming soon The biggest annual event in my field is undoubtedly the Society for Neuroscience meeting, which I expect w...

Buying a microscope is like buying a car. For one thing, the price range is about the same. I’m not kidding; the cheapest car these days ...

Stupid of the Week! Last week on my campus saw many events held as part of HESTEC . The idea of the week was to encourage Hispanic student...

Done. Pages read of Stephen Jay Gould's The Structure of Evolutionary Theory : 1,343. That, my friends, is the last text page. After t...