Today was a bit of a strange day. It was the last day of class. There was free lunch to celebrate the university get re-accredited (even tho...

The Austin Chronicle 's Naked City blog comments on the recent announcement of Kenneth Heydrick as the science director for the Texas E...

I started off my research career with octopuses when I was in a landlocked prairie province. And my supervisor talked from time to time abou...

Turning on the computer is typically one of the first things I do in the morning after having a shower. Yes, it's not a good habit. But ...

Kenneth Heydrick (pictured) is the new Texas Education Agency science coordinator . This used to be Chris Comer's job. The press release...

The Houston Chronicle was one of the first news organizations to confirm what's already been on the blogosphere: that THECB denied ICR...

The Texas Observer blog is reporting that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) supported the Academic Excellence Committee...

The following is a blog post I made over at the All in the Mind blog in response to a recent show on evolutionary psychiatry. I wanted to p...

More coverage this morning about the THECB's Academic Excellence Committee's recommendation in anticipation of the full Coordinating...

The Austin American-Statesman has a longer story on the THECB committee vote, including pinpoint accurate comments from Ray Paredes (empha...

The news is hitting the wires now... It seems all the news stories are taking the Coordinating Board's final vote tomorrow as a fait acc...

ICR's request to grant Master's degrees in Science education has been voted down by the Academic Excellence Committee. There is sti...

On Earth Day 2008, I drove over 150 miles in a car, alone. I feel bad about the carbon footprint (stupid infrastructure determining my choic...

My Master's student Sandra successfully defended her thesis yesterday. Hooray! Now, I just hope the revision can be done in time. This c...

The Christian Post has a news story about the upcoming meeting of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Institute for Crea...

In case you saw the recent news story that a teenager corrected NASA about the probability of an asteroid impact... check here . Besides, a...

It's going to be a long, long, footy season for us Melbourne supporters... Dees told 'face up to the crisis' Sigh.

I really like this post over at the DrugMonkey blog about the role of authority in science. I like it even though it has South Park pictur...

This video of Chris Comer describing her firing is up at an National Center for Science Education website devoted to the film Expelled . I ...

One of the things I occasionally get in my mailbox is updates from the National Science Foundation, since it is the agency that I look to mo...