Mike Brown always wanted to discover a planet. On August 25, 2006, Mike Brown killed Pluto. Well, the truth is Pluto had been killed long before, but it wasn't until August 25 that the International Astronomical Union met, in Prague, to have the official vote...
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week.Ready for some psychological and neuroscientific Halloween science blogging? Here you go!
Happy Halloween! I decided to revise and repost this piece from November 1, 2010, on dog bites, full moons, and confirmation bias. Click the archives icon to see the original post.
A beautiful sunset with a sliver of a crescent moon, shot yesterday, October 29, 2011, at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. (Click to enlarge) Details: Canon Rebel XTi, Canon f2.8 24mm prime lens...
An out-of-context experience can feel more intense
An animal rights group has sued SeaWorld. Their claim is that SeaWorld should not be holding killer whales in captivity. So far, this is a fairly unsurprising story, and one that may have merit enough to debate...
If you're a subscriber of the Scientific American print magazine, you might have noticed a new feature in the Advances section recently - excerpts of recent posts from the blog network!In November's issue, you can find a version of my post about the Copenhagen Philharmonic and Four Loko - which you can also find online: Of Flashmobs and Four Loko...
As Psychology and Neuroscience Editor for ResearchBlogging.org, I feature the best posts about peer-reviewed research in those areas each week. Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week...
As a child - okay, even still as an adult - I couldn't get enough of adventure stories with animals at the center, whether in text or on the screen. Jack London's Call of the Wild comes to mind, or Disney's The Jungle Book...
The web is all atwitter with news of this new Lytro camera, wherein you do not have to "waste" any time deciding where your focus plane should be in your photo, because the entire thing can be in focus.According to the New York Times Gadgetwise Blog: When viewing a Lytro photograph on your computer, you can simply click your mouse on any point in the image and that area will come into focus...
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. Imagine you are alone on a desert island for one year and you can have water and one other food - and you have to choose on the basis of health (rather than, say, what you like)...
At some point the other night, I decided to experiment with rotating the camera while the shutter was still open. Mostly I got...junk. But a few of my experiments turned out pretty neat...
Lots of people mistake bonobos for chimpanzees, despite the fact that they're really two different species. But that people are familiar with chimpanzees in the first place is actually somewhat remarkable, given how rare these primates truly are...
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. For your weekly fix of sensation and perception, head over to That's Basic Science!
Thanks to you kind folks, Mr. Vizthum's Donors Choose project has been funded. In case you don't remember, this teacher wanted to teach evolution to his students, but due to their age and English-language proficiency, not many books were accessible to them...
I haven't been able to get a Serious Post™ done on Donors Choose yet, because I've been pretty busy with research-related activities. But this is too important to put off any longer!From now until October 22, Donors Choose is running its yearly Science Bloggers for Students campaign, wherein science bloggers and readers of science blogs donate to support science education in classrooms in low-income neighborhoods across the country...
From the Petapixel blog, slow motion video from a 1000fps camera of an eagle attack. (Correction: an eagle owl attack)
Earlier this week, scientist Anna Wilkinson won an IgNobel prize for her research on contagious yawning (really, the lack thereof) in red-footed tortoises.
Find out all about me, in my tell-all exclusive interview with Bora over at The Network Central: Introducing #SciAmBlogs bloggers: Jason GoldmanThere's mystery, there's humor, there's excitement, there's danger...
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. Those of you do not know me personally might not know I'm kind of an introvert. Those of you who do not work at the other desk in my office might not know I like working to music...
