A grant on which I was a co- PI gt rejected this week. Another to add to the pile. But I received notice of a request for applications in A...

The day after Crash won the best picture Oscar, Sounds Like Canada replayed an old interview with writer / director Paul Haggis. (I was aw...

In the “cosmic coincidence” category today, the cable station Bravo is showing the Inside the Actor's Studio episode with Robin William...

My free lecture for Brain Awareness Week is on the front page of the UTPA website this morning. You can jump directly to it here .

I spent a good chunk of today working on a public lecture for this Thursday, whcih I'm giving as part of Brain Awareness Week . Because ...

I finally managed to check off a couple of prominent items on my “to do” list. First, a manuscript I was hoping would go out around New Year...

Some weeks back I was interviewed for not one, but two article in our local campus newspaper, The Pan American . You can find those articles...

Rejected by the NSF again. This is the third time we've submitted a proposal to the Research Experience for Undergraduates Sites progra...

There are a few things that authors live for. One is finding out that someone you actually don't know personally has read something of y...

I first became aware of this particular presentation tic at grad seminars at UVic . The symposium moderator would get up, thank the previous...

You Are 54% Evil You are evil, but you haven't yet mastered the dark side. Fear not though - you are on your way to world domination. Ho...

Amazon.com sagely suggests that because I'd like the upcoming Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire DVD, that I would probably also like ...

I just got word on one of my last grant applications, this one to the SOMAS program , and it was rejected. I suck. It has been unusually chi...

I went to an early morning meeting on Thursday to meet a couple of people who came to our campus to evaluate our Honor's program. It was...

Over at Edward Tufte's forum, I have a post commenting on Lawrence Lessig's presentation style.

Late last year, science lost a real treasure: Ted Bullock died at the age of 90. He was a neurobiologist of the first water. I somewhat self...

Some time ago, I mused about a television science reality show about grad students. A writer in the journal Nature expresses doubts . And t...

My latest masterpiece -- er, research paper, "Digging mechanisms and substrate preferences of shovel nosed lobsters, Ibacus peronii (D...

My first degree was in psychology, so when I began working with crustaceans, I was somewhat surprised to learn that Sigmund Freud worked on ...

Strange convergence of events got me thinking. The MSI conference that I've been writing about has had a lot of high powered American po...