I was working on some images for a poster this afternoon, and I liked this one, so I thought I'd share it. It's a shrimp antenna mag...

The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article about the problems of digital image manipulation. It's a very tough thing. I've h...

Several sources are reporting that The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) is petitioning the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (...

I bust another invertebrate neurobiology myth on the All In The Mind blog that crops up in a post about cars , of all things. What follows ...

The Texas State Board of Education is reviewing and approving standards for lots of subjects this year, and it's not pretty . The Housto...

Or could be in a few years. Seriously, check out this article . As of this month 85 per cent of the 4.3 billion available Internet Protocol ...

I'd never heard about Miller-McCune magazine until just now, but they have an important article about how "doubt" is abused ...

I spent the bulk of the day on a long, long overdue review of the budget of my REU program. I think I've worked through all the research...

The Law of Maximum Inconvenience states that when you remember something kind of important that you forgot in the lab, you''ll remem...

The first time gas was edging up towards $3 a gallon locally, I got into a conversation with colleagues about how high prices would have to ...

"Look at how conveniently close the C, D, and F keys are on the keyboard." (Oh yeah, a lot of students did not do well this semest...

"Are you going away for summer?" and all its variations. What with the two summer classes I'm teaching, two manuscripts I'...

We've had a couple of campus-wide faculty meetings over the last week, concerning salaries. Only a small fraction of the faculty were th...

It's the end of the semester. Most of my colleagues are frantically grading. I am frantically trying to go back and get to the many task...

It's looking a lot better than last time . The nail on the right side reached a point where it got loose and I had to trim it off. It...

The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) is predictably upset about not being allowed to offer Master's degrees in science education. T...

de Bruyn PJN, Tosh CA, Bester MN. 2008. Sexual harassment of a king penguin by an Antarctic fur seal. Journal of Ethology 26 (2): 295-297. ...

Over in the Waco Tribune , there's an funny column titled, "Religion in fake mustache." It points out the apparent split betwe...

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...