Sandwalk

The DNA papers is a series of podcasts on the discovery that DNA is the source of genetic information. Each podcast is a discussion among e...

That seven Nobel Prizes were awarded directly or indirectly for work in tumor virology illustrates the impact of the field on biomedic...

That's part of the title of podcast by Kat Arney who interviews Matthew Cobb [ Double helix double crossing? What really happened betwee...

It was 68 years ago today that the famous Watson and Crick paper was published in Nature along with papers by Franklin & Gosling and Wi...

Today is the 75th anniversary of D-Day—the day British, Canadian, and American troops landed on the beaches of Normandy. 1 For us baby bo...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of DNA sequencing technology (Gilbert and Maxam, 1977; Sanger et al., 1977) 1 The Sanger technique soo...

Today is the Fête Nationale in France known also as "le quatorze juillet" or Bastille Day . This is the day in 1789 when French ci...

Today is anniversary of D-Day—the day British, Canadian, and American troops landed on the beaches of Normandy. 1 For baby boomers it mea...

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Battle of Vimy Ridge . The battle invovled four divisions of the Canadian Corps an...

Today is the Fête Nationale in France known also as "le quatorze juillet" or Bastille Day . This is the day in 1789 when French ci...

The history of DNA repair is well-known. Here's a quote from "Early days of DNA repair: discovery of nucleotide excision repair and...

There are 13 casts of the famous sculpture by Rodin [ The Burghers of Calais ]. I've seen four of them (Paris, Washington, Los Angeles, ...

At 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb was detonated over Hiroshima, Japan. Approximately 78,000 civilians were killed on that day. Six...

Today is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo . The diagram on the right shows the initial disposition of the Anglo-Dutch army...

After the defeat at Ligny, the Prussians retreated in good order to Wavre and by Saturday, June 17th a large part of the Prussian army had r...

Napoleon's Army of the North had crossed the Belgian frontier and was advancing toward Brussels. Napoleon had surprised the allied armie...

It was 200 years ago today that Napoleon's army crossed the Belgian border at Charleroi and advanced on Quatre-Bras in order to split th...

I'm reading Eternal Ephemera by Niles Eldredge and learning about the early history of evolution and geology. Eldredge describes the wo...

I'm gradually starting to work on my book about evolution by accident. The first chapter is "Darwin Died in 1882." The point I...

The first video was posted to YouTube on April 23, 2005 [see YouTube ]. I took this photo (right) a few years ago near my daughter's pla...