I thought about what I liked in high school, and realized... Choose what you like in high school well. It’ll be with you a lot longer th...

Contrary to popular belief, dodos can fly. They just have spectacularly bad luck in their flights suffering from looooooooong delays. ...

I expected this book to be about the fossil record, but it’s more accurate to say it’s the record of the fossil record. By which I mean t...

Squat lobsters are not terribly well known, and this is a new species in a genus that even I didn’t know about: Uroptychus . This species...

Despite that evolution is the law in Texas, intelligent design keeps cropping up with regards to the state K-12 education. The Texas Freed...

Peer review currently consists of writing, and reading, lengthy critiques and recommendations and completed forms. Other refereed activities...

“Strong support for the argument that video game violence is indeed harmful.” What would that strong support be? According to this story ,...

You have two copes of your DNA in almost all your cells. The notable exceptions are your sperm (if you’re a guy) or your eggs (if you’re a g...

Science 3.0 is sponsoring a neuroscience blogging contest , for both new and old posts. You have to scroll down to find the entry form, on t...

I’m a bit behind on my podcasts, but I had to point to this one from All in the Mind about a week and a half ago, about why people kill. ...

The very first episode of Doctor Who I ever saw (“The Seeds of Doom”) opened with Elisabeth Sladen frantically digging around in snow, try...

A press release from the city of McAllen is reporting that planning has started on a new research and education park in the area. It will ...

Stenopus hispidus is sometimes called “candycane shrimp,” which is much more fun than its other common name, banded coral shrimp. Love the...

This is probably the most effective short presentation I’ve seen in a long time. Unfortunately, I can’t embed the video here. But what yo...

Peter Thiel is still promoting his notion that higher education is a bubble waiting to burst. I wrote a slightly paranoid response to this...

Averil Macdonald has an interesting take on science education from Physics World in 2006 that I just discovered . It is a myth that stude...

Bone Girl and I prove great minds think alike . The Scholarly Kitchen talks about how China rewards researchers for publication . This cou...

Texas legislators did not particularly like the national attention the State Board of Education brought to the state in the last couple of y...

In today’s “Science is incremental” department... A couple of of years ago, I wrote about a paper with the counterintuitive finding that ...

From Geeks are Sexy , the Geek Zodiac! It’s like the Chinese Zodiac... only geekier. (Click to enlarge.) I am rather pleased to be born i...