It's not often that I can make lens flare work for me, but when it does, I think it really does. With more practice, hopefully I can turn shots like this from happy accidents to fully intentional creative uses of lens flare...
Lots of great science events going on in Los Angeles in October. Why not check one or more of them out?October 4, 5pm: Dino Hall talks at the Natural History Museum.
I hated group projects in middle school. Perhaps this was a clear sign of my introverted personality, but to my thirteen-year-old mind, it was easier for freeloaders to get away with a decent grade without doing their fair share of the work...
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. Here's an old argument: TV affects kids' attention spans. But is it true? And if true, what is the mechanism behind the attention reduction?...
You've gone out and taken dozens (hundreds?) of photos and now you want to show them to the world. So you upload them to Flickr or Picasa. All your EXIF data is preserved, so viewers of your photos can find out the specifics of the gear you used and the settings on your camera for that particular photo (like the shutter speed, aperture, ISO, etc)...
Some animals pee on trees, and others rub their anal secretions on mounds of dirt. Some animals send Facebook messages to all the ex-girlfriends of their new boyfriends.
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. A post by Bradley Voytek on Oscillatory Thoughts about an article by Mo Costandi in Nature about a paper by Dan Simons and colleagues, about research methodology and video game studies...
Some photos of Venice, Italy from the summer.And some photos of Venice Beach, California, from the Google+ photowalk this month.
When this headline from The Telegraph flashed across Google Reader, I couldn't help but be amused: Scientists explain why the office party so often ends in embarrassment.From the article: Now scientists have come up with an explanation for why the office party is so often the cause of embarrassing and inappropriate behaviour.Researchers have found that drinking in environments not normally associated with alcohol consumption can leave drinkers less able to control their behaviour.The brain learns to compensate for the inhibition lowering effects of alcohol when in a familiar setting, such as a pub or at home with friends, they discovered.However, if they drink in an unfamiliar environment such as the workplace, where they are usually sober and focused, drinkers do not benefit from tolerance and lose control of their inhibitions...
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. What's really going on while you're asleep? Find out from Amie Gordon at Psych Your Mind.
The Quiet Ensemble sees music everywhere in nature. Quintetto promo from Quiet ensemble on Vimeo. “Quintetto” is an installation based on the study of casual movement of objects or living creatures used as input for the production of sounds...
In about three months since Google+ was launched, I've shared 414 photos. In that time, this photo seems to have gotten the most enthusiastic response from the most people (to a single photo - not including responses to entire albums or photosets)...
Can dogs pretend? This is the question I asked yesterday, prompted by Sheril's story: ...this afternoon Happy did something unusual. She carried a toy frog over to her water bowl, and gently put it down as pictured...
Earlier today, friend-of-the-blog Sheril Kirshenbaum (blog, twitter) asked a question on her blog, Culture of Science: Do Dogs Play "Make Believe?": ...this afternoon Happy did something unusual...
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week. Practicing golf changes the brain! Well, pretty much everything you do changes the brain - but a new paper specifically about golf is covered nicely by William Yates at Brain Posts...
This week, enjoy an offering from my shooting partner, Enrique Gutierrez - a video portfolio containing photos from our outings over the last eight weeks.
What is culture? One simple definition might be: a distinctive behavior shared by two or more individuals, which persists over time, and that ignorant individuals acquire through socially-aided learning.There are at least four different ways to learn a particular behavior or problem-solving strategy...
Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week: "In the front yard, lawns still rule," writes Tim de Chant at the Per Square Mile blog.
Usually, I spend my time on the USC campus in my office behind my desk. Last week, though, I decided to take the night photography I usually do and take it to campus.
It's an ordinary afternoon at Copenhagen Central Station. At 2:32pm, a man who appears to be a run-of-the-mill street performer sets up a drum in the center of a large hall.
