When I taught my first college class (I was 23 and a grad student at UCLA teaching at Pasadena City College), I would have LOVED to have what is now called an Instructor’s Manual to help prepare my courses. I’m not sure when such things became available. My first real experience Read more…
For those of us on quarter system, school seems pretty far away, even as August 1 approaches. For those of you on semesters, however, school is just around the corner. I was pleased to see that my Instructors’ Resources for Discovering Biological Psychology 2e were up and running on the Read more…
Mr. F and I are not night people–when left to our own devices, we are definitely asleep by 11pm, no later. But we made an exception for the midnight showing last night of the latest Harry Potter film, and it was definitely worth this morning’s sleepiness (and caffeine fixes all Read more…
Japanese researchers have reported in Nature that they have successfully inserted the gene for green flourescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria into primates. Previous teams in the US have been successful in inserting genes into primates, but this is the first report of a genetic change in primates that is Read more…
Just a quick note (more to come later as it’s late!) to say that we just had a terrific time at APS! Our student group had a lot of fun with their poster session on social network sites and loneliness (we wore hats and t-shirts from LinkedIn–and were hard to Read more…