A short review of Rock Stars of Science . Good idea : Show scientists in a context besides in a lab coat, with safety goggles, pipetting som...

The Hawaiian islands are the setting for one of the most fascinating experiments in evolution in real time that I know of. There, the males ...

Don McLeroy will no longer be the chair of the Texas State Board of Education , according to Texas Freedom Network. This is a good decision,...

I was leafing through the June 2009 issue of Popular Science , and was pleased to see invertebrate neurobiology featured in a little quiz. ...

There’s an article on PLos Biology concerning why so many people in the U.S. think vaccines causes autism, when there is no good scientific...

“Not so tough now, are ya?” I think everyone secretly hopes to utter that phrase someday to someone who blusters and bullies and threatens. ...

I watched the first half of The Link , the documentary made about the fossil primate Darwinius (Ida). I didn't watch the whole thing, b...

The Intersection points out that Phillippe Rushton is at it again. Back in my grad schools days, there was tremendous debate about Rushton,...

There’s been a spate of spitting in the last few months. First, I catch a discussion of spitting cobras on Quirks and Quarks . Then, they’re...

Quick update on the Texas Legislature and the State Board of Education is up at the Star-Telegram . Lot of proposals to modify the Board ha...

I am a promoter of science. Sometimes, I even call myself an evangelist for science, although it’s kind of tricky because of the religious c...

Reading this review about a book on Stephen Jay Gould got me thinking. The review made what was, to me, a startling claim. Punctuated equil...

SEED magazine summarizes the Texas K-12 science standards. It’s mostly a summary, but there are a few new things to note. First, how do te...

I really wasn’t expecting to post more on this new fossil today (and I have to admit, it’s lovely), but this clueless news story got me ril...

It is a great time to be studying biology. But when people talk about this as being the age of biology, usually they think about our ability...

This article in the New York Times concerns the unveiling of a new fossil, which is slated to be published today. A new fossil in and of i...

In March, I wrote about the stimulus package funding: I think researchers are going to be so relieved by hearing about the federal budget...

An idea that is batted around quite frequently about presentations now is that people can only pay attention for a few minutes. This has pro...

Classes are done, grades are in, and I really want to be thinking about research and my student’s projects... but I’ve spent a whole lot of ...

I was digging around Google Scholar, looking for some old article, and found this newspaper article about shrimp biologist Bonnie Eldred, w...