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  Dear WOW Spammer, You are spamming my blog with all kinds of links to your websites in France. I don't know what you are trying to ach...

  Most people do not understand current ideas about evolution. The following is a brief summary of the Modern Synthesis of Genetics and Evol...

  UPDATE: This week's molecule is the genome of ΦX174, a small bacterial virus. It was the first complete genome to be sequenced (Smith...

  This falls into the category of, "Wow, I didn't know that!" 1 . According to a press release from Michigan State University:...

  At my talk last Friday I was asked about the field of evolutionary psychology. This seems to be a popular topic among educated non-scienti...

  I just received an email message from András Pellionisz informing me that in America the concept of junk DNA is "dead as a doornail.&...

  I don't think Prime Minister Stephen Harper believes any of the things that Barack Obama says in this video. My country is cutting bac...

  Today's Monday's Molecule really is a molecule. Your task is to identify the molecule from the cartoon shown here. It won't be...

  The term Genetic Fallacy is used to describe fallacious arguments that attack an idea based on its origins (genesis) and not its current ...

  Chuck Lorre is a TV producer. One of his shows is Two and a half men , another is The Big Bang Theory . Chuck Lorre has a blog but it'...

  Jodrell Bank was one of the instruments that excited my imagination back when I was a junior member of the astronomical society. Ms. Sandw...

  Here's a photograph of many varieties of hybrid radish. It's from the Botany Photo of the Day posted on Darwin's birthday by ...

  Check out today's Botany Photo of the Day from the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research. The...

  A reader tells me that Trent University (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada) celebrated Darwin's birthday with a talk by Joseph Carroll on...

  Dan Falk is a Toronto-based science writer and winner of 2002 Canadian Science Writers’ Association Science in Society Journalism Award. H...