The universe I see when I sit on my porch and look up into the sky is very different from the universe a professional astronomer sees with all of today's available advanced technology.  On a…

SquidFire is having an end-of-summer sale: $5 off all their adult t-shirts. (I think it still applies even if you live in the southern hemisphere.) While not all of their gear features cephalopods,…

You can't read a book like the excellent Conversations on Consciousness (interviews with experts in the field of consciousness), by Susan Blackmore (not pictured above), without having…

Can we get three cheers for psychology?  The bulk of the quality researchers in the field have consistently been under fire because of researchers like Satoshi Kanazawa and Marc Hauser but have…

I was meandering around the internet during the holiday weekend, catching up on RSS feeds and the like, and found this comic by David Coverly: It reminded me of something from a few weeks ago - …

"Can neuroscience provide evidence for a liberal and conservative thinking style? It may seem like a stretch to say that one could predict whether you lean left or right by looking at a brain scan—no…

Integrated pest management (IPM) is a proven, cost-effective strategy to combat pest problems without unnecessary pesticides. By correcting conditions that lead to pest problems and using least-toxic…

Asking a specific question which has a specific answer is the sign of fertile soil instead of another shovel full of fertilizer. One question leads to variations on that query. Even dull looking…

I know, I know! This is totally a cop-out blog post. But I've been super busy compiling the latest Circus of the Spineless, which I'm hosting over at my homepage, the Cephalopodiatrist. There's some…

It slips from my fingers Cliched grains of sand. I fill my days with work Because it slips, more each Passing day...the slips Growing faster, exponentially, Until I feel that I am…

This is about a thousand kinds of awesome.It's a jazz tune called "Cephalopod" which includes these memorable lines: Cephalopod.Would you like to study cephalopods?Teuthology is a branch of science…

Every ramp-up to every election since blogging has been in existence has seen the blogosphere explode with the usual 'Republicans are anti-science' hype while whitewashing Democrats who do the same…

Yikes! It's always interesting to have a reminder that the wild ocean remains wild, and taking a boat to sea is an entirely different matter from taking a car to the store: A Coast Guard statement…

In the early days of the Obama administration transition, there were a number of concerns about his anti-science beliefs.  He hired a guy who thought girls couldn't do math and one who thinks…

Newfoundland and Labrador (which is a single Canadian state province, in case any of my readers are as clueless as I was am) claims to have the highest concentration of preserved dead giant squid…

A short entry for today.  Blog material has cycles.  For this blog, I write 4 types of items:   1) Framing pieces (info about satellite work in general)   2) What I have…

A documentary on Intelligent Design, a flavor of Creationism, can be shown at the California Science Center under terms of a settlement announced yesterday. But the group that sued the center after…

The Colorado BioScience Association (CBSA) worked with Senator Michael Bennet's office in assembling a group of more than 35 bioscience industry CEOs from its membership last week to dialogue with…

So, it's a bit tricky to figure out exactly what this means, but it could be big news for Humboldt squid in Chile--and therefore Humboldt squid everywhere, since the ocean doesn't exactly control…

'Creationism' is a confusing term.  In science, militant atheists will intentionally call all religious people 'creationists' and then complain creationists are anti-science, even about the…