Mark Liberman over at Language Log proposes we should go hunt for the Hat Gene *! =D (sums up the average humanities major's understandi...

I kind of got distracted while writing up a long post about ***** (you can wait until it actually comes out, probably next week! =P), so I...

Ok. I'm getting rather annoyed. SOMEONE keeps on citing papers from the future. HIS OWN papers from the future. Now I know that it's...

Got a midterm tomorrow, so should must be studying tonight, and may well be undergoing EtOH treatments tomorrow night (haven't dared t...

About a month ago I've done a second microforay -- same sample a week later. Amazingly, stuff was still alive. I'll start off with m...

Due to popular demand, I'll sporadically write up a series of posts on some ImageJ basics. For those not in the loop, ImageJ is a popul...

To compensate for crappy blogging as of late (and the delays in the Great Review of Heterolobosea aka 'cruel and unusual punishment'...

I just failed to realise pAP3::GUS is a transcriptional fusion reporter and therefore only expresses if and only if there is transcriptiona...

This time, the Sunday Protist will be short, and not involve [too much] scholarly literature -- for real. No, seriously. Let's do anothe...

Johan, our resident micropaleontologist, got this past week's Mystery Micrograph - congratulations! The answer was: Haplosporidia. Johan...