Eli_Meir's blog

Just got back from a vacation, a real vacation, where my computer stayed at home. We were in a remote lodge in the middle a small lake in the Brazilian Amazon, surrounded by tropical forest, and not much else. Not an internet cafe in sight.

We regularly do research studies on teaching biology to college students. It's an integral part of our mission to develop better teaching tools.

A group from University of Colorado, Boulder led by Michael Klymkowsky has been doing interesting research looking at how biology students deal with randomn

It seems like a new trend is coming where people take mind 'enhancing' drugs to help them work better. According to a couple of recent editorials in Nature, people in professions that place a premium on thinking are beginning to take drugs that purportedly boost brain power