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  The latest issue of Tangled Bank is #103. It's hosted at rENNISance woman on the Nature network [ The 103rd edition of the Tangled B...

  The good news is that atheists are no longer in last place! The bad news is that we have a long way to go to catch up with the Methodists....

  The 29th edition of Gene Genie has been posted at My Biotech Life [ Gene Genie: the better late than never personal genomics special edi...

  This is a slick trailer for the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (irony alert!). Unfortunately, the contents of the movie won'...

  John Wilkins posted a brief note about a German school kid who "corrected" NASA's calculation of the probability of an aster...

  Ryan Gregory has published a wonderful article in Evolution: Education & Outreach (Gregory, 2008). The article is about understanding...

  Every year at this time Tim Hortons runs a promotion called "Roll-up-the-rim." The idea is that you roll up the rim of the paper...

  A group of scientists have published a series of articles about errors and inconsistencies in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth [ Scien...

  Vancouver Airport

  Last night was the gala 70th birthday party for Bruce Alberts at the Metropolitan Club in San Francisco. Here's Bruce with his first t...

  read it at: A Letter To Dr. Larry Moran .

  Yesterday and today I'm hanging out with some people who care abut science education. We've had some wonderful conversations. I...

  In case some of you didn't see the Charlie Rose show on science last week, here it is. The panelists are: Paul Nurse, Lisa Randall, Ha...

  I'm attending the 70th birthday party for Bruce Alberts in San Francisco. Here's a picture of the authors of Molecular Biology of ...

  Surf. Surfing at Santa Cruz. Monterey Bay.