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  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1971. "for his discoveries concerning the mechanisms of the action of hormones" Earl W...

  If you haven't updated your copy of Google Earth then you should do so right now. A new feature called "Sky" has been added ...

  This posting has been replaced by Identity of the Product of Mendel's Green Cotyledon Gene (Update) . Another of Mendel's seven ge...

  Today's molecule is complex but it has a very simple common name. The common name is not sufficient—you must supply the formal IUPAC n...

  Matt Nisbet is at it again. His particular spin frame on the rationalism vs. superstition debate is that the rationalists are making too ...

  I recently returned from spending a week in a foreign country. I did not behave like the Canadian in this video although there were times...

John Dennehy of The Evilutionary Biologist has posted a wonderful article on This Week's Citation Classic . The classics are two back-t...

  Denyse O'Leary has friend named David Warren. Warren writes articles for newspapers and he and Denyse are friends because they both wo...

  In the July 21 issue of New Scientist , Hugh McLachlan thinks that we should legalize cloning of humans [ Let's legalise cloning ]. Bu...

  Last night we saw a screening of the film Amazing Grace in a small cozy theater. At the end of the movie there was a fascinating talk by ...

  The 86th issue of the Tangled Bank has been posted on Fish Feet [ Tangled Bank #86 ].

  Peter Lawrence is a Professor at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK. He has worked on various aspects of fruit fly development f...

  Jim Giles reviewed Michael Moore's Sicko in the July 14th issue of New Scientist [ Review: Sicko, directed by Michael Moore ]. Like ...

  Gene Genie #13 has been posted on The Genetic Geneologist [ Gene Genie #13: Into the Future ].

  Brian Switek of Laelaps has posted a wonderful essay on Homo sapiens : The Evolution of What We Think About Who We Are . Read it. In a ju...