Dr. Adam Oliver Brown

Nature ex machina

Louise Hibbert -Pays de Galles- bois et métal

Who needs the truth anyways...?

Sad life lessons from the not-too-distant future

I returned to the set of Finding Stuff Out for season 2, but this time I worked to reconfigure the script for our episode on Plants. Glad we did because this episode was nominated for a screenwriter's award from the Writer's Guild of Canada in the Children & Youth category (2012).

Here's a little clip of my first visit to the set of the internationally award-winning kids' science show Finding Stuff Out.... we discovered a new species of Potato Fish!

A riveting showdown

see me, feel me

New book chapter just published

A lesson that we have yet to learn completely

Desert hares not only get great sounds from those big ears but also heat dissipation with those big vascularized fans up in the wind

The pecking order

Anamorphic entomological artistry

Cette semaine sur la radio Unique FM à Ottawa avec Michel Picard on parle de la pseudoscience en académie, ainsi que sa diffusion par des vedettes Hollywood. Écoutez-en et dites moi ce que vous pensez!

Chicka-dee-dee-dee

Parasitic copulation in deep sea angler fish

My eyes are up here!

Cette semaine à la chronique scientifique on discute de la folie pseudo-scientifique de l'homéopathie. Écoutez-en et dites moi ce que vous pensez!

Its a nice way to work on the last day of reading week. Finishing up writing a book chapter on teaching evolution in science classes

Much more scary and dangerous than glyphosate

Dicotyledon germination

The Dunning-Kruger effect makes it extremely challenging to have any kind of rational conversation with non-scientists about complex scientific topics that they dont realize that they dont understand

Feeling a wee bit peckish?

wait for the dramatic ending...

Behavioural ecologists call that proapostatic foraging (I.e. when there is more, you take more)

Is it too late to say Happy New Era?

Murmurations of birds always seem so expressive to me

On a side note: please check out this beautiful music that I was lucky to have been a part of: Richard Reed Parry, A Quiet River of Dust vol. 1 https://science.uottawa.ca//professor-rocks-beyond-educati

I always offer my students of Animal Behaviour (BIO3176) bonus points if they can successfully build a nest as well as a bird... oh, and you can't use your hands!