We often talk about emotional trouble as painful. We feel hurt by rejection, we smart from hurtful remarks, We get burned by a bad relatio...

A few Monday morning notes, in no particular order: I know paper reviews are simply reviewing your paper, not your work or yourself. Tha...

I got myself a new homepage landing page right here on Google sites. It's not pretty or anything - you can't alter the page format...

Research generates data. Sometimes lots of data - the LHC accellerator at CERN generates petabytes even after heavy filtering - and someti...

A bit late on this: I wrote a good long while ago about Zotero , an open source reference management tool, and how Thomson Reuters, makers o...

I don't normally cover work-related things on this blog - I write it as a diversion from work after all - but occasionally work and priv...

In the news today, H.M. has passed away . "H.M.", well known by anyone who has ever studied brain science or neuroscience, are th...

Citations power your research When researchers write a paper, we need to give references to any other paper from which we've used an id...

In further proof that a) scientists are no smarter than anyone else outside their own field; and b) nobody really understands all the resear...

GlobalTalk 21 has an enlightening post about election financing in Japan. As it turns out, candidates for major parties are expected to sh...

Deadlines are necessary. They're unavoidable. They are even beneficial - I would not get half as much done if I wasn't occasionally ...

Our robot, i-1, is in the news again. A pretty good, accessible piece in New Scientist , with links to a video demonstrating the balancing ...

The reason for my relative silence the past month or so has been due not only to the Open House at ATR last week. The i-1 robot - アイワン in J...