Sandwalk

  Carl Zimmer is teaching a course on science writing. Here's a picture of his classroom. It's a tough job, but somebody has to do i...

  I missed this Scientific Literacy Quiz that appeared in The Toronto Star last week. Fortunately Postdiluvian, a med student at the Unive...

  David Hone recently published a paper on theropod behavior [see: Baby killers: hunting and feeding behaviours of large theropods ]. When t...

  Carl Zimmer is an excellent science writer. He reviews three books directed at scientists on how they should communicate science to the ge...

  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1966 "for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence&...

  The University of Toronto publishes eBulletin once or twice a week to let people know what's going on. This is the official voice of ...

  If you look closely at the two molecules (below) you'll see that the one on that left has an extra bit of polypeptide chain compared t...

  Here are two different versions of the same enzyme. One of them is the active form and the other is inactive. You should identify the enzy...

  Derek Rogers is a computer science student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canada). I met him in Washington last April. H...

  Today is our 41st wedding anniversary. Here's how Ms. Sandwalk looked back when we first started dating. She looks the same to me toda...

  The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis of Elaine Morgan is a classic "just-so" story that attempts to explain the evolution of modern huma...

  Posted yesterday on Evolution News & Views : European scientists working in conjunction with Biologic Institute . The anti-ID crowd ha...

  American politics is so much fun—I love watching it on TV. But from time to time the subtleties escape me. This is one of those times. The...

  Carl Zimmer has an article in Science with a provocative title: On the Origin of Eukaryotes . This is well-timed since it appears just wh...

Day One , Day Two The third day (Saturday, August 1) began with a presentation by James McInerney of the National University of Ireland i...