Like I said, the presentation went well.  Initially I was freaking out.  And by initially, I mean all yesterday and all today up until I got to the seminar room.  My morning class ran long, and I packed up my bag without being sneaky and quiet about it, stood in the aisle putting on my coat as the closing remarks were made, and was out of the room ( Read more... )

I spent most of the afternoon on the floor in my advisor's office, working on my presentation.  We started out looking at data and doing some ANOVA's on it.  Then she got all excited and started talking about this other stuff I could do with the data.  Dr P showed up after a bit, and I left them to discuss data analysis amongst themselves and ( Read more... )

17 lefties, 17 righties.  4 Excel spreadsheets.  Data on spreadsheet 1 occupies columns A through BJ.  And now a few more, because I probably need to get handedness data in there too ( Read more... )

-I am scheduled to present my research project (Laterality in Motor Preference, Spatial Attention, and Auditory Processing) at the CSC Biology Seminar Series on November 29th. 
-Someday, I hope to take pictures like these.  (Picture heavy, not dialup safe unless you have a lot of patience.)  I need a better camera first.  The photographer, Yoram ( Read more... )

According to the email I just got from Cat, Mr Cannon died.  I have no details other than it happened on Saturday morning (google is failing me), but if I find anything out, I shall post.  ETA (3:30pm): Cat says it was from pancreatic cancer, and that he went downhill very quickly after being diagnosed. (Mr Cannon was the physics teacher at ( Read more... )

Presentation day again.  I guess I'm set, although I still feel inarticulate, and very very tired.  Today's article is on vervet monkeys, and how they have preferences for gendered toys.  That is, the males prefer stereotypically masculine toys (ball, toy police car), the females prefer stereotypically feminine toys (doll, toy cooking pot), and ( Read more... )

Our grant proposal for 3M got approved approved!