After a year of collaborative work it is time to reflect and give thanks. Won’t you join us? Today marks the one year anniversary of The Primate Diaries in its latest incarnation here at the Scientific American blog network as well as my collaboration with the artist, and fellow primate, Nathaniel Gold. Anniversaries are important [...]

I’m teaching my son to think like a scientist. He is two years old. We frequently go for walks together through the woods and along the coastlines of British Columbia where I allow his curiosity to run free. His current research project is throwing rocks into the ocean (this is just the exploratory phase mind [...]

Original image by Charles M. Schulz/Peanuts.

Changes are afoot around here! Six new blogs were launched today, which when combined with the previously-existing Sci Am psychology and neuroscience bloggers, form the new Scientific American MIND Blog Network. What does it mean for this blog? Nothing has changed. All the current feeds and links will remain as they are – instead, you’ll [...]

After being knocked out for a week by a flu (don’t procrastinate on those vaccines, like I did) and coming back to a veritable avalanche of new data and (American) Thanksgiving, things are a little busy around here. So, to keep you busy between carving up turkeys and decorating with gourds, and because I haven’t [...]

I tackle this question in two very different ways, in two very different places this week. First, the latest in my BBC Future column, Uniquely Human, was published today: Is language unique to humans? When Alex unexpectedly passed away after only thirty-one years of life, his last words to his dearest friend were, “You be [...]

The Scientific American Blog Network launched one year ago today! Happy birthday to us! Following in the tradition of the rest of the network (borrowed, in turn, from Drugmonkey and Ed Yong), I’m going to take this opportunity to find out who you are. So, time to de-lurk! (I understand that you can now use [...]

Just a quick announcement that I’ll be on a short segment of The Aaron Rand Show, on Montreal’s CJAD 800 radio station this afternoon tomorrow afternoon, June 6, around 3:45pm eastern (12:45pm pacific). The topic will be dog guilt. If you’re in or around Montreal, I expect you can simply tune into AM 800. For [...]

I’m going to be participating in a Google+ Hangout “On Air” tomorrow night. Google+ Hangouts are multi-user video-chats, but they’re limited to 10 users. Hangouts “On Air” are, apparently, open to everyone to watch (though limited in the number of people who can actively participate, or something like that). Anyway, AV Flox (twitter, G+), who [...]

While this blog will remain quiet through the weekend – I’ve decided to really, actually take this week off – I’d like to take a moment to wish all of my readers and friends across the blogosphere a very Happy New Year. Onward to 2012!

The final 50 posts (plus one poem) that will comprise the next edition of the yearly anthology of the best science writing on the web have been officially announced by this year’s editor Jennifer Ouellette. Having served as editor for last year’s edition, I know just how hard and painful the editing process can be [...]

Find out all about me, in my tell-all exclusive interview with Bora over at The Network Central: Introducing #SciAmBlogs bloggers: Jason Goldman There’s mystery, there’s humor, there’s excitement, there’s danger. There’s a silly picture of me posing in front of an inflatable zebra. Go read it.