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More reality science ideas
Quite a while ago (Sometimes I forget how long I’ve been blogging), I wrote an article about reality television shows for scientists. A while back, Bitesize Bio took up the torch with a new list of science reality shows we should have, but don’t. I

Life in the holodeck
I’ve written a bit about how evolutionary theory might help resolve Fermi’s paradox. A new article by Geoffrey Miller in Seed focuses on another part of the Drake equation, culture: I t

Let’s get personal
The Dr. Jekyll & Mrs. Hyde blog had a quite good post on writing personal statements. There’s a tricky thing about personal statements: It’s almost impossible to find good and bad examples of them. Because personal statements are part of competitive applications for programs or positions, they’re confidential, and rightfully so. It’s almost impossible to see how other people do them. Thus, people don’t have an easy way to learn that something that is highly important to them personally – like having seen a close relative struggle with illness –

Shell shock: Is the new way to dispatch a lobster a better way?
When you’re a crustacean neurobiologist, cooking a lobster is a topic you’d better be familiar with, because you will be asked about it. (See posts in February 2005; May 2003; maybe this subject needs to get its own label.) The Daily Mail has an