I was sick on Saturday, had an uncomfortable overnight flight back to Texas on Sunday, have had the south Texas heat kicking my ass every ti...

Brian May, of the legendary band Queen, has finished writing his doctoral thesis . Thirty years after he started it. Now that would be a gra...

"Edinburg," says our customs officer in the Vancouver airport. "Who lives there?" "There's a university there,...

Museum of Anthropology rocks. So many delegates leaving on Thursday night when the conference ends Friday afternoon sucks.

Vancouver Aquarium rocks. The beluga whales really are hypnotic. And sea otters are pretty darn cute. And so much more. Fireworks rock. Went...

I am blogging (if this works) from my Pocket PC in Vancouver, BC, where I'm at the 8th International Congress for Neuroethology. The sun...

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Tomorrow morning I get on a plane for the Eighth International Congress of Neuroethology. One of my favourite meetings, but only held every ...

I just finished printing off my poster on the printer so big, they call it "Tank." Fortunately, as it was printing, I only saw abo...

It's late. Stupid late. But I just finished up a poster for a meeting. The last thing I was doing were some statistics. I had to do them...

In my earlier post about lying with statistics , I mentioned scientific skeptics. Part of what I was thinking of was a recent (30 June 2007)...

Peter Tuddenham was a British actor, who, among other things, provided a huge number of voices for the SF TV series Blake's 7 ... includ...

The title of this post comes from a well known, short little book about statistics. It's been some time since I read it, but I recall a...

I was pleased to have two packages arrive today that were ordered earlier this week -- Tuesday and Thursday, to be exact. Of course, I fully...

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” – Richard Feynman, conclusio...

In preparing the previous post, I happened upon Chris Mooney's blog. Chris is a journalist, not a scientist. After attending a conferenc...

Sigh. There have been entire books written about politicians telling scientists to shut up. So this article is just more confirmation of a...

Rating courtesy of Mingle 2 .

...What the picture at the right is? It's the top view of part of the abdominal nerve cord of a white shrimp, Litopenaeus setiferus . I ...

I was listening to a very interesting interview with David Sloan Wilson on Quirks and Quarks . Dr. Wilson wrote a book called Evolution for ...