If you visit out university website, you will be informed that things are bad. Very bad. Mother Nature has it out for us and is going to try...

You might not want to fly because of the pat-down, but a bird might not want to fly because it’s hard work. As the old joke goes, “I just ...

When a colleague said physicist Arthur Eddington was one of only three people in the world who understood general relativity, Eddington fir...

The indefatigable Bora Zivcovik recently announced that the submissions for Open Lab 2011 are now up! So everybosy start hitting the button...

Texas has 39 crayfish species. This is one of the two most recently discovered, Fallicambarus houstonensis – named after Texas statesman a...

At Wonderland, Emily Anthes asked , “How much are we (science bloggers) really sparking a wider discussion about science in society and how ...

What you say and what people remember can differ. Case in point. The January 2011 American State of the Union address, actual words used...

Elissa Malcohn, writing at Chronicles from Hurricane Country, has a poem inspired by my post on scanning the brains of salmon as they smelle...

Thursday, 27 January, 3:13 am . A week or two back, an email went around about my institution hosting “ UTPA Day ” at the state capital in ...

When I teach a seminar class, I start off by asking the students to name a speaker they have seen who gave a great presentation, and describ...

Peter Thiel thinks there’s an education bubble about to burst: Probably the only candidate left for a bubble — at least in the developed ...

Jonah Lehrer argues that teams, not single individuals, are driving scientific discovery. I’m most convinced by an alternative explanatio...

Drawing on my search committee experiences, here are more tips for tenure-track job applicants! One of the first things people are going t...

In the UK, the BBC Two show Horizon had a show on called, “ Science Under Attack .” Judging from the response of the Free Radicals blog , i...

This one is for the professionals in the audience. I just received an email from Fred Schram, the editor of The Journal of Crustacean Biol...

What is a friemone, you ask? Why it’s a frie ndly ane mone ! (File under: Compound words that won’t catch on.) A member of family Porcell...

On Friday, I wrote about a documentary on the Texas State Board of Education that was looking to hire an editor. They put the project on Ki...

You could be forgiven for thinking that there’s no way you could get a useful brain scan of a fish. First all, if you pay attention to br...

Pandas? Love. Lookaddatface! Of Pandas and People ? Not so much. The Texas Freedom Network is reporting that Foundation for Thought an...

Sometimes, I’ve thought about making videos for this blog. I haven’t done so, partly because I could never compete with her : This is my ...