CogSci Librarian

After tweeting privately for over 18 months, I have recently created two public Twitter accounts. One is for folks at my new position as di...

I've been meaning to read the May 11 New Yorker article on V. S. Ramachandran and this weekend I finally had time to do so. It is a gre...

NPR.org/music has some terrific musical material! They have interviews with musical acts of all stripes: rock/pop/folk ; classical ; jazz ...

I just finished a delightful novel called The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa and translated by Stephen Snyder. What was inter...

I was so excited about my possible synesthetic experience last week ( aural synesthesia? ) that I didn't explain what synesthesia actual...

I was recently in DC for conference of special librarians and I was lucky enough to have a tour of the NPR building. My guide, library dire...

The librarians at UT Arlington are at it again -- if I were still teaching reference, I'd show this video to start a discussion of the r...

I've just run across three cool ideas for promoting science: BoraZ reteweets an interesting story from science writer Mary Spiro :  Roc...

How can we think more critically about science? I've recently heard/ read two bits of information (1) about some bad science being promu...

I just got word that I was awarded the prestigious Shover & Maker award, sponsored by the good library people at the Library Society of ...