The Carnival of Evolution #39 is up at Byte-Sized Biology . Carnival of the Blue #42 is up at The Beacon . Meanwhile, Circus of the Spin...

I liked last week’s soldier crab picture so much, I couldn’t resist having a second look at one of these guys. Photo by emmettanderson o...

I am not going to the mega-massive Society for Neuroscience meeting this year. (No, not because I’m wondering about their blogger choices ...

Previously , I wrote about some of the laws that the Texas legislature passed that affect universities. This got me wondering if other state...

Biochem Belle, over at There & (Hopefully) Back Again, asks about people’s experiences blogging under their own name versus blogging und...

Happy Hallowe’en...

The myth that you only use 10% of your brain is pervasive, but I never expected to see it on MythBusters . After all, it’s a very – dare I s...

We think that good environments make for good brains, particularly when people are young. Parents have been known to obsess a little about w...

Regular readers may already know Nerdy Christie Wilcox . I am a big fan of hers. And it’s not just me: she’s been in Open Lab twice , a fi...

Almost a year ago, I wrote about a device being marketed as the “Crustastun” that was touted as being a more human way to kill a lobster th...

My eyebrows went up when I saw the list of officially sanctioned bloggers for this year’s Society for Neuroscience meeting. I didn’t reco...

Solider crabs ( Mictyris longicarpus , I think) on the march. Photo by teejaybee on Flickr ; used under a Creative Commons license.

The Wall Street Journal has a nice article on moves made to increase transparency and accountability of universities . It focuses on Texas...

It’s a little embarrassing. Despite being about as familiar and as commonplace as you can get, we still don’t have a clear understanding o...

Scientists are usually cerebral people. We live in our heads. As Randy Olson has argued , that doesn’t help us. One of his main pieces of ad...

I was vaguely aware that some store tried to change its logo, and it backfired. This is not surprising. These things happen. New Coke, anyon...

(With sincere acknowledgments to Sts. Murray and Kern ) If you are a science reader, you hope that scientific journals are grounded in fa...

Valley folds and mountain folds, that is: the basic origami folds that were probably used many times in creating this lovely paper hermit c...

My former undergrad supervisor, Jennifer Mather, is interviewed at Cephalove .

Of all the many, many forensic crime shows on television right now, Bones is my favourite. I recognize more of myself, and the people I ...