Back in March, I gave a public talk for Brain Awareness Week , "Brain Scans and the Magic Lasso." (An archived version is here ). ...

Quote from yesterday's provost candidate that I quite liked: "A vision without a plan is fantasy. A plan without a vision is drudg...

This week is one of those weeks. Forgot about finding time to blog or work on the book manuscript, finding time to go to the washroom is a ...

Hey, I was almost hot (scientifically) in July through September 2004 . Go way down to #22. Never noticed that before.

As a Canadian, I am contractually obligated to say: Go Oilers . Now back to paperwork. I mean it this time.

I think there's something to be said for this obsessive tracking of a project in a public forum. It was able to get me off my bum and ge...

In our graduate evolution class yesterday, my colleague Anita revealed that there is a group of beetles named after her. I was instantly je...

Friday afternoon has been nice to me today. No talk to think about that's less than 24 hours away. Nobody bothering me, for the most par...

In another one of those still-not-quite-sure-how-this happened events of the summer, I spent this afternoon meeting with various people abou...

Click image to enlarge if you can't read the text. I took the picture of the box that I actually received from Carolina Biological Suppl...

One week of summer class down. The class (Evolutionary Theory) is going as well as can be expected for the first time. The thing I'm enj...

Just as people are curious about their family lineage, academics are curious about their intellectual lineages. An intellectual lineage is m...

I spent a good chunk of the day in my lab doing work related to my current manuscript that's in revision. It's necessary but unglamo...

Yeah. It's June. My new graduate class, Evolutionary Theory, starts Monday. It runs every day and I'm just working on Friday's t...

The graphics on this page shows the way a webpage is written. The first one on the left is the page you're reading (prior to making this...

I wrote previously that honesty is a core value for scientists, but that doesn't mean that scientists don't engage in, shall we say,...

As I mentioned last time, I'm working on a book manuscript. Why am I doing that instead of, say, writing a technical review article for ...

Spalding Gray, in his monologue movie Monster In A Box , talked about being in Los Angeles and asking random people (the person behind the c...

While browsing the always enlightening Panda's Thumb , I followed a link from there to the equally fine Aetiology and finally a weird e...

I live right across the corner from the Edinburg Baseball Stadium. The year I moved here, 2001, was the year the Edinburg Roadrunners debute...