After last quarter’s amazing trip to the UCSB Brain Imaging Lab, the Neuroscience Club was hoping for an encore, and found it in UCSB’s ReCVEB lab. This stands for “Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior.” Cade McCall and his staff kindly showed us the details of their work, much Read more…
Today was the beginning of week 9 for us dinosaurs still on the quarter system, and you can feel the growing tension as finals week approaches. Everybody could use some anti-anxiety advice right about now. So a recent article about exercise and anxiety caught my attention. While I typically bring up Read more…
A few months ago, I heard from Mark Melnychuk, who represented a group of Canadian journalism students who were in the process of exploring and documenting Maker Culture. Mark asked me what I thought of the Makers, and to be frank, I had to tell him I’d never heard of Read more…
While working on a writing project on the history of psychology, I was reading through various timelines others have constructed. Usually, these start with a series of “firsts”–first psychology laboratory, first psychology degree, etc. I was reminded of a delightful coincidence of “firsts” in my own library, courtesy of Mr. Read more…
As my readers know, I am a huge fan of the i>clicker audience response system. My students seem to like it, too, but some have complained that they lose the remote or it’s too expensive (our bookstore sells it new for $29). So I was very excited to see that Read more…