I Turned into a Werewolf: Flickering Firelight & the...
When I did the strange-face-in-the-mirror illusion, I turned into a frickin’ werewolf! How cool is that? I should back up, right? I teach a course called “Primate Religion & Human Consciousness”...
View ArticleBaba does Bama
Hip hop evolutionist & playwright Baba Brinkman performed for the Bama ALLELE series last night. He got one of the best turnouts we’ve had, & I think it was one of our better efforts at...
View ArticleYou Can Minor in Evolutionary Studies & Start as an Assistant Professor in a...
After that little bombshell, I just sort of zoned out & walked thru the rest of the day in a dissociative fugue, wondering about how different it would have been had I known that 15 years ago. I...
View ArticleModeling Recent Human Genetic Adaptation
Geneticist Dr. Sarah Tishkoff from the University of Pennsylvania is speaking as part of UA’s ALLELE series today, & EvoS students are reading a recently review she co-authored for Nature with...
View ArticleWe Need Neandertals or Some as Yet Unknown But Genetically Similar Population...
A couple years ago when I first started blogging here, my friend John Edvalson asked me right out of the gate my opinion on the Neandertal-sapiens interbreeding controversy. I think I skirted an answer...
View ArticleHow Exactly is Evolution a “Crosscutting Concept”? Enter Bill Nye the Science...
Finally, Some Evolution Controversy: No Such Thing As Bad Press If you’re like me, you are feeling pretty bummed today about not getting a ticket to see Bill Nye. The fact that only a limited number of...
View ArticleA World Famous African-American Scientist Puts the Presidential Election in...
On Wednesday, the day after our 2017 presidential election, I dreaded having to put on my host face to go out to dinner with Dr. Joseph Graves, our ALLELE speaker for Thursday. I couldn’t really stand...
View Article“Huge service to the university and the community more generally”
Again, not to pat myself on the back, but to suggest to others what you can do to fight back against ignorance. There are protests, join them. There are businesses & organizations that are being...
View ArticleHow to Make the Most of Guest Speakers or, Dinner with Ron Numbers
I wrote this post last fall but never got around to finishing & posting it. It’s dated but has a few valid points still worth putting out there. I always tell my students that I get more out of our...
View Article#2016Highlights Month-by-Month: Part 1
Though the end of 2016 was a miserable fucker of a bitch, most of the year was awesome, and it’s important that we have a little perspective. At my house, we have a dinner ritual called “Good Thing/Bad...
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