Sandwalk

An article on Nature: INDEX reports on a recent survey of scientists: Cutting corners a bigger problem than research fraud . The subtitle s...

Science addressed the problem of How to (seriously) read a scientific paper by asking a group of Ph.D. students, post-docs, and scientists...

Ewan Birney ( Genomic's Big Talker of ENCODE notoriety) has a new post called In defence of model organisms . He brings up two points...

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the main source of research funding for Canadian health researchers, including those do...

An important article in the Ottawa Citizen calls for the resignation of Alain Beaudet, recently reappointed President of the Canadian Instit...

  The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) provides most of the funding for health-related research, including most of the basic re...

  In 1991 there were 30 young people beginning graduate school in the Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Progam at Yale University. Where...

  Every weekend TV Ontario broadcasts talks given by prominent thinkers at lectures given in Toronto. The broadcasts are at 4pm Saturday, re...

  I think there are incorrect ways of doing science and I think that much of today's scientific literature is an example of bad science....

  A recent study examined Why Children Love Their Security Blankets . This is a subject most parents are familiar with and not just because ...

  You remember Jennifer Smith, don't you? She lives in Milton, Ontario. That's the place made famous by PZ Myers 'cause he stopp...

  I was just checking to see where you all were coming from when I realized that in the past few hours I've had visitors from all seven ...

  Vince LiCata was kind enough to publish a generic course syllabus that applies to most graduate courses—and many senior undergraduate cour...

  I'd like to address a thorny issue; namely, discrimination on the basis of age. The focus of this particular posting is the widespread...

  Last week the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Funding crisis made the front page of the Globe and Mail (lower left corner)[ ...

  I recently commented on the funding crisis in Canada. Less than 20% of grants will be funded in the latest CIHR competition. Canadian scie...

It's an interesting question. One of our departments here at the University of Toronto just renamed itself Cell and Systems Biology so ...

I recently became aware of the fact that reciting the Lord's Prayer before city council meetiings is still happening in southern Ontario...

Reed A. Cartwright ( De Rerum Natura ) has just posted a summary of his recently published paper on the effect of gap costs in sequence ali...