Sandwalk

Blogging was light last year because I was busy with other things and because the popularity of blogs is declining rapidly. The most popular...

I was looking at some of my posts from the past few years and wondered which ones were the most popular. I had previously identified the mos...

My most popular post last year was: An Intelligent Design Creationist disputes the evolution of citrate utilization in the LTEE ... Lenski r...

3 Quarks Daily is running their annual contest to pick the best blog posts in the past year. The finalists will be picked by popular vote a...

A few weeks ago, Jerry Coyne got his knickers in a knot because the Ontario school curriculum didn't specifically prescribe the teaching...

My friend, Robert Day, (Canadian Cynic) was subjected to a vicious and protracted serial defamation by Patrick Ross. Wanna know what happene...

Lot's of people are publishing year-end summaries of their blog activity. It got me to wondering which of my posts was the most popular ...

Later on today I'm giving a talk at Western University (London, Ontario, Canada) 1 The subject is blogging. I realized while preparin...

There's a little kerfluffle in the blogosphere because an anonymous blogger has been outed. Michael Eisen posted an interesting comment ...

Here's a photo of Bill Farrell ("Doc Bill") and Louis C on the Sandwalk. They join a distinguished list of people whose vis...

Imagine that you are speaking at a conference. You spent a long time preparing your talk and you have wonderful slides to illustrate your mo...

I'm rather proud of the fact that few people have been banned from this blog. That's why it's worth a special post when someone ...

This is just a little blog. It's taken me more than six years to reach five million pageviews. The big guns get that many every month. ...

I try really hard not to ban anyone from commenting on Sandwalk but there are some things I will not tolerate. Someone named David Roemer...

Blogging is fun. I love it when a serious discussion breaks out in the comments. Sometimes I love it even when the discussion is not serious...

Check out the meowbified version of Sandwalk at http://cat.sandwalk.blogspot.com.meowbify.com/ . The evil deed was performed at Meowbify ...

Jeffry Shallit of Recursivity is in London, England where he recently took a train from Victoria Station to Bromley South, then a bus to Do...

Blogs have been around for more than a decade but it's still not clear what purpose they serve (if any). We still don't know how to ...

I just heard from Dave Greig that Richard Harter died over a month ago [ Richard Harter 1935 - 2012 ]. He was a long time contributor to tal...

I'm in Madison Wisconsin. What in the world does one do In Madison? Well, there's the State Legislature (beautiful), the free zoo, a...