I am afraid for my science

27 Aug 201215 Oct 2012

Please see the "About" page for some additional information about the blog! Also, you may "like" Baldscientist on Facebook. --- This week we celebrate the life and mourn the loss…

BOOK REVIEW: Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid

19 Aug 201220 Jul 2013

As usual, feel free to look at my "About" page.  Also, if you wish, you may "Like" Baldscientist on Facebook!   Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of…

BOOK REVIEW: The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors, and Beliefs

13 Aug 201220 Jul 2013

Rob DeSalle, Ian Tattersall, Patricia J. Wynne (Illustrator). Yale University Press (2012). ISBN: 978-0300175226 This is an ambitious book.  The brain is probably one of biology's "ultimate frontiers" and one…

BOOK REVIEW – Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist

12 Aug 20124 Mar 2015

This is a review originally posted by me at amazon.com. --- Dr. Koch is a biophysicist by training who works primarily in computational neuroscience, with special interest in consciousness; he…

Why write about science?

5 Aug 201223 May 2013

“Not explaining Science seems to me perverse. When you are  in love, you want to tell the whole world.”  -Carl Sagan Sometimes it is very difficult to explain how an…

BOOK REVIEW – The Future of Life

4 Aug 201220 Jul 2013

I wanted to bring to your attention one of my favorite books. Even though it was published some time ago, if anything, it is more relevant today. THE FUTURE OF…

Hermit Crabs and Humanity – The Ultimate Evolutionary Convergence

1 Aug 201215 Aug 2012

This post is very speculative (a true scientist's way of saying "it is fun to think about these things"). Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that with respect to evolutionary theory,…