As my students and readers are aware, my only dabbling with personal biochemistry is limited to consuming substantial amounts of caffeine. Consequently, I was more than a little taken aback when my students, via their anonymous iClickers, informed me that 60% of them had consumed enough alcohol that they barfed. Read more…
One of our favorite classic movies chez Freberg is Bell, Book, and Candle, a 1958 film starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, who allegedly was the actress after whom the Disney animators fashioned Tinkerbell. In the movie, Novak plays a witch who uses her magic to make Stewart fall in Read more…
Brian Wansink’s research into why people overeat isn’t just good science, it’s funny. So Mr. F and I weren’t surprised to find ourselves laughing a great deal during his lecture tonight at Cal Poly. Running into several of my students after the lecture, I found that we weren’t the only Read more…
Whatever you’re doing now, stop. Click here. Spend the remainder of your evening exploring the remarkable features found on Cold Spring Harbor’s Genes to Cognition Online: The 3-D interactive, rotating brain is a must-see for neuroscience faculty. I plan to use this in class to demonstrate neuroanatomy. Animations include reading Read more…
Nature reports today that 1200 students at the University of Texas, Austin are part of an experiment in which they are using Amazon’s Kindle 2 instead of print textbooks. At $359 a pop, one can only hope that the textbooks themselves can be downloaded at a reasonable cost. The new Read more…