I was channel surfing a couple of nights ago, and came across a show about Jay Leno’s discovery of a rare, vintage Duesenberg car (descri...

To me, the interesting thing about this story (also here ) isn't that the alleged sasquatch hair turned out not to be, but how people c...

Once, I had a conversation with an aspiring writer of fiction who simply could not wrap her head around the idea that scientists write all t...

Once, while watching a TV series about the Bible called Testament , the presenter talked about the efforts to find archaeological evidence f...

The Panda's Thumb is one of my favourite blogs, because it deals with evolutionary biology, and non-scientific alternatives to it, prim...

It's been a week since I left Santa Barbara from the Third International Tunicate conference. Long past time for a report. I left in ple...

Which is to say, innocuous -- at least the local effects were. I certainly have sympathy for those in Mexico who have been harder hit. We ha...

Just when I thought I would start getting some stuff of my own done in the lab, along comes Hurricane Emily. The University is closing at 5:...

cane-toading , v. A reference to cane toads, an exotic introduced for pest control in Australia that did no control the original pests and b...

My conference poster got reprinted, and while it was printing, I found another small typo. Aiieeeee! They won't die! They just won't...

You can read something on the screen a dozen times, but don't spot the typos until you have a printed hard copy in front of your eyes? N...

I celebrated Canada Day by submitted another grant proposal. This one, as usual, is to the National Science Foundation . It's called a ...

Yesterday was sort of another day that got away from me in terms of research. The morning was spent getting my annual eye check-up, then bac...

I found out this afternoon that all my teaching release requests for next year have been granted. This is great news, because it means I...

In the last entry, I mentioned I was a little disappointed that I missed the afternoon mail on Friday, because my manuscript wasn't on t...

I missed the afternoon mail. Drat. I just finished up the revisions on my recently rejected manuscript, and was hoping to get it physically ...

... Or, how writing a scientific manuscript is a little like dating. I always get wound up reading reviews for a paper or grant proposal I s...

Scientific papers are far too often dry affairs. So I respect and appreciate authors David Ayre and Richard Grosberg for giving me a researc...

One of my three recent manuscripts was rejected. The reviewers suggested it was more appropriate to a different journal, so back into revisi...

I was supposed to be in Louisiana today, giving a talk. I canceled the trip, because my passport was getting renewed, which meant that I di...