Poor Dees . I guess it's a case of wait 'til next year... Note: The "wooden spoon" indicates the team that comes last in t...

I recently saw this interesting graph from The New York Times , which shows the cost of education in the U.S. way, way, way outpacing every...

The author of EvolutionBlog had the gumption to go to a conference on creationist research (no snickering, please). There several posts in ...

Yesterday was one of that days that makes you wonder, "What am I doing here?" You try to create positive change. Treat students a ...

In my job as a professional science writer, I use no less than eight different software packages to get the job done. And that number is te...

First day of class today. Both classes were in a building I literally had never stepped into until today. One class, Biological Writing, is ...

Today was the last weekday before classes start next week. So, unusually for me, I did something sensible. I got the heck outta Dodge. I had...

If you go to the CBC entertainment wesbite , you can listen to the hokey pokey my way. Don't scroll down if you want to listen to the li...

Yup. It was a fake . And a low-level fake, too. I mean, I thought mistaking a possum for sasquatch was bad, but a gorilla suit ? Two resear...

Now that I've managed to tame my email inbox for work, I'm working on the rest of the office. This is somewhat scary. I found some p...

I have no email in my main inbox. That probably hasn't been empty for the better part of a year. My email inbox has generally been way, ...

From a story in The Age : One of the two samples of DNA said to prove the existence of the Bigfoot came from a human and the other was 96...

The sasquatch news is progressing about as I expected with this morning's news story in The Age : The two men who claim to have found B...

I spent the evening and will spend most of tomorrow at a lengthy college meeting.Because it was off campus, it was called a "retreat....

US hunters claim they have found bigfoot . Headline pretty much says it all. Except it should say, "US hunters claim they have found sa...

It took seven years. I was able to stay pretty much in the black all the way through my undergraduate and graduate education. I went briefly...

Science is like a good friend: sometimes it tells you things you don’t want to hear. It tells you the truth. - Charlie Booker, "Charlie...

Departments should remove conference presentations as a requirement of job performance. I love research conferences. They're one of my ...

A Blog Around The Clock contains a nice analysis on something I've discussed before, and that many are starting to notice, namely how ea...

If you're crossing a border into the United States, the government can take away anything electronic for any reason for any length of ti...