Fright Nights at University of Wisconsin: 25 years of terrifying monkeys The runaway winner of our Most Outrageously Repetitive award is ...

"It's important to know what the cost is to the animal. It's important to know what the potential benefit is to, in this case i...

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Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain w...

Situational influences are so compelling that many of us, most of us perhaps, are unable to resist them. This explains why otherwise reaso...

In the old days, a state university was funded primarily by state taxes and tuition. But not anymore. In the old days, a university like t...

Mice Fall Short as Test Subjects for Humans’ Deadly Ills By GINA KOLATA New York Times February 11, 2013 The group had tried to publis...

In my last post I criticized Eric Sandgren's comment concerning the lack of "traction" that Tom Yin's cruel cat experimen...

I'll go out on a limb and assume that most readers of this blog are well aware that James Cromwell and and my friend Jeremy Beck...

I turned 60 today. Happy birthday to me. Here's a picture of me from 1982 when I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia. The teenage...