I'm a professor here at UC Davis.About 3 weeks ago, students on our campus were holding an Occupy protest. They were behaving peacefully and the situation seemed quite stable. After only 1 day of…

http://kipcurriercopyright.blogspot.com/2009/07/federal-research-public-... Andrew Richard Albanese, Publishers Weekly via Library Journal; Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) Reintroduced in…

Imagine a world where Discover, Nature Networks, Science 2.0, Scienceblogs, Discovery and all the others worked together.   Yes, yes, I know we all do on occasion, but those times are based on…

`http://www.google.com/images?client=opera&rls=en&q=Brooke%20Magnanti&oe… http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/11/16/sex.blogger.identity/index.h…

Bad news for bloggers; the courts love to protect journalists, even those shysters who use 'anonymous' sources that have directly led to the rash of modern journalists inventing even Pulitzer Prize-…

A common belief among club-going men is that women choose less attractive friends to make themselves look better. See this clip from that important anthropological documentary "Hall Pass" for context…

More than a year ago, after yet another horrifying story about a parent killing her autistic child, I wrote a post on how scientific research shows that filicide is almost always…

Climate change experts come in all shapes and colors. The Earth system is very complex and the climate on this planet is influences and can be understood from various perspectives. To get the whole…

Huffington Post has a piece up on whether parents of obese children are in denial. Of course, the comments are typical for Huff; there are the usual close-minded asses who assume that all…

What does chessboxing have to do with science? Let me tell you a little story...It all started last November with this tweet: There was a Twitter conversation about politics, and I suggested the…