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Sudden population shift
University towns are pretty nice places to live especially in the summer, then over the course of just a few days thousands of new residents move into town, and boy, do you notice the difference. The...
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Fixing broken voices and how polymers are coming to the rescue of our medical...
A team at MIT has developed a polymer gel that can mimic human vocal cords. Although vocal cords don't make it to the news very often, they are a serious problem for millions of people around the...
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Have you seen me before?
I have been using PCA to correct blink artifact in an EEG study that I am presenting at AMLaP in a couple weeks. Generally, I think I've gotten pretty good at detecting blinks. I do see other things...
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Triassic Fieldwork in Utah
Randall Irmis of the Utah Museum of Natural History is posting about current fieldwork in the Triassic of Utah. You can check out the first post here and check back for more to follow.
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Hey girl. Have you heard about the war on women?
Image credits (if not credited, public domain)Ron PaulTimothy DolanRick SantorumMike HuckabeeChris ChristieMarco Rubio
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Table Manners
Right now is a tough time for flowers, the late summer ebb in flowering augmented by a summer drought, and a tough time to have time to blog, so the Friday Fabulous Flower is a no go this week. The...
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Titles in evolution
Here's pickings from the last month of new papers in evolution. Those are just the ones that popped out at me in the tocs, but there are of course many, many others. I wonder how many were published in...
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More Photos from the Petrified Forest
I'm currently creating a database of all of our photos from the last decade of paleontological work at Petrified Forest National Park and am working through 2002. These photos were taken by Daniel...
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Survival - Goal of the 1st week of the semester
Survived and here to blog about it! At a previous faculty meeting several curricular changes had been approved, and in retrospective reflection they occasioned several more changes in a domino sort of...
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UC Davis muzzles professor for speaking out about excessive PSA testing
When UC Davis announced a seminar on men's health back in October 2010, it sounded like a typical educational event. But UC David professor Michael Wilkes investigated and learned that the seminar...
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Awe expands your sense of time - and makes you less materialistic
In a series of fascinating experiments, Melanie Rudd (Stanford University) and colleagues have shown that inspiring a feeling of awe in their subjects also made them feel that they had more time to do...
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Tropical evening
Today was a warm, humid, rainy day. Now this is a good thing because things were just getting so dry again that TPP had to do some watering, and even then in a single week a holly shrub went from OK...
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The Resurrection of Grass
The resurrection grass Oropetium thomaeum, photographed by Diana Margaret Napper. Even for a grass, the annual Oropetium thomaeum is not a very prepossessing plant. Only a couple of inches in height,...
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A journey to the Moon
a collection of tweets about #NeilArmstrong collected by @ulaulaman Armstrong family statement "Next time you walk outside on clear night & see moon smiling down at you, think of Neil & give...
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Blood Test Reveals the Time Inside You
Like flowers opening and closing with the sun, our bodies have a rhythm that follows the daily turning of the earth. Processes speed up and slow down; hormones rise and fall; we feel wakeful or tired....
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Revision, Revision, Revision
I have finally been going through the papers in the Frontiers Special Topic on publication and peer review in which my paper on replication came out. One of the arguments that appears in many of these...
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Moss Tumbleweeds
I just saw this article about mosses living on glaciers in Iceland and the animals living inside them in the New York Times. These balls of moss (glacier mice) are unattached to the ground and can...
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Diandongosuchus, A New Archosaur from Triassic of China
There are lots of incredible specimens coming out of the Middle Triassic in recent years (SVP attendees will see another in a talk this year by Sterling Nesbitt and colleagues), and this amazing fossil...
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Dipping a toe into the polluted waters of politics
TPP generally stays away from politics because this topic is just too depressing for an intellectual, science-minded, educator who supports social justice and real equality. Still a few thoughts occur...
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How to feel young and small
TPP's old friend Stan has been doing some traveling and he writes an interesting commentary, things that few people think about when visiting sequoias or bristle cone pines. Go give him a read, and...
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