After a few weeks of denial, I’ve decided that I need to announce a blog vacation. I’ve just started graduate school and need a bit of time to get settled in before I can put the time in to do the blog (and you, dear readers) justice. I’ll be back, I’m sure, some time this year. Until we meet again, stay classy and thanks for reading!

Head on over to Cognoculture for the 88th edition of Encephalon, the blog carnival dedicated to psychology and neuroscience. There’s lots of great stuff there. Thanks for reading!

Man, things have been busy. I guess that’s what grad school is supposed to be like, right? In any case, since you’re using the internet, I’ll assume you’ll be interested in a bit of graphic sexual content. I’ve talked about various aspects of cephalopod reproduction over the past year, but after stumbling across a few good videos last night, I decided...

Cephalopods use their vision a lot; it’s a big part of how they orient themselves in the water, hunt, and recognize predators and each other. It makes sense, then, that they have particularly well-developed eyes. In fact, they are the only invertebrates to have camera eyes. Camera eyes are eyes that focus an image on the retina, which transmits the...

One of the things I like about divers’ videos of cephalopods is that you often find the animals intently investigating the people filming them, and so the video is never an observation of the animal as much as an interaction with the animal. Check out these guys: Thanks for reading! I’ll be back next week with a meatier post (on vision no less,...

Welcome to our Memorial Day picnic … I mean, blog carnival! I guess I’ve just got food on the mind. In any case, the neuro- and psycho-blogosphere has been serving up delicious treats for you all month. Try a bite of some of these, and let me know how they suit you: Ariel casts out Caliban – Eric Michael Johnson takes a look at the history of anthropological...