We use research to help design our virtual laboratories. Some studies we do on our own, but for many we need help from faculty willing to try a lab in …
Male Antelope Lie To Get Sex
Earlier I mentioned examples of critters that lie to get what they want. Last week in American Naturalist Jakob Bro-Jørgensen and Wiline M. Pangle …
Octopus Aces Physics Homework
Here's a question from my daughter's physics homework. A balloon with a weight tied to it just barely floats. If the balloon is pushed down under the …
Survival of the Fittest? Not Always.
Are the fittest always the ones who survive? I'm thinking of "fitness" in its everyday meaning, not its technical meaning. We might expect that the …
E-Textbooks and the Blind
If you are blind and studying any of the sciences, there are a lot of obstacles in your way. One of them is the textbook. Somehow, you must get the …
Language, Lying, and Evolution
I recently received an email from a cognitive psychologist asking whether it is plausible that human use of language for deception is an adaptation. …
