The Austin Chronicle has an article discussing the start of the revision of Texas K-12 science standards. I thought those were going to be...

Oh, wow. While messing around trying to find data for my SciLink tree (see here ), I stumbled across NeuroTree . This represents a substant...

I really hate zombies. Not in the literal sense, since they are fictional things, after all. Sadly for me, zombie stories have become a pop...

When I was doing my post-doc at the University of Melbourne in 2000, I was around to witness one of the most amazing seasons in professional...

Lili , Claudette , Erika , Emily , Rita all rated mentions here, and a couple even warranted shutting down the University. But Dolly was th...

I've written a little bit before about my academic history. And my Bacon number , for that matter. So when I read this post on The Dai...

This is a phylogeny of most known dinosaur species. While I appreciate the scientific information it contains, I also enjoy it just as a pie...

Got an acceptance letter from an editor today. Another article is now in the publishing pipeline. Hooray!

Tropical storm Dolly is heading roughly this way, and they're saying it's liable to become a hurricane. I am not terribly concerned,...

Illiteracy is the inability to read with any proficiency. The use of the word goes back to the 1600s . Innumeracy is an inability to use m...

Texas Education Agency's Don McLeroy continues his efforts to fool people, as documented in this article in The Bryan/College Station E...

I listen to lots of science radio on my iPod while I'm walking to work. Dr. Karl 's phone in show on Triple J is an interesting cas...

This cartoon takes on a question I asked previously : Are we supposed to walk door to door with a copy of On the Origin of Species in hand...

Malcolm Gladwell gives a fascinating talk about recruiting here . He claims is that the things we try to have as objective measures to predi...

Oh, my fellow academics, you simply must follow this link to the Gallery of the Absurd.

There's been a recent set of science blogs posting about a recent Nature article what I talked about over in my Marmorekrebs blog . Mi...

The news about Chris Comer's suit against the Texas Education Agency has started hitting the press. Mostly in Texas, as evidenced by art...

Not that I obsess over the amount of traffic this blog gets, but I couldn't help but notice that it spiked yesterday. The number of peop...

I've spent the bulk of today working on reviewing a manuscript for a peer-reviewed scientific journal. I was asked by an editor that I h...

The National Center for Science Education has posted a PDF of Chris Comer's suit against Robert Scott and the Texas Education Agency.