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The latest issue of SEED praises US President Obama's emphasis on science and offers a list of ideas "for revising the role of sci...

Many of us were upset last month when New Scientists published some old news about the early tree of life and sensationalized it on their c...

  The ignorance in this segment makes me very angry. Can anyone tell me what the US military is protecting Canada from? The Iraqis? Cubans? ...

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  George Galloway is a Scottish MP who speaks out on behalf of Palestinians and expresses support for Hamas. He was recently invited to Cana...

  " Science journalists? Don't make me laugh " is the title of an article by Ben Goldacre appearing in The Guardian . Goldacre...

  Memorial University of Newfoundland Tenure-track Positions in Gene Expression and Metabolic Biochemistry The Department of Biochemistry at...

  Today at 11:44 UT (= 7:44 AM Eastern Time) the sun appeared to cross the celestial equator in its northward movement. (See Movement of Our...

  " Science is my job - faith is my rock " is the title of an article in today's Globe and Mail . Zosia Bielski is a journalis...

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1960. "for his method to use carbon-14 for age determination in archaeology, geology, geophysics, and ot...

  There's an editorial in Nature this week on science journalism [ Filling the Void ]. It's not very interesting. There's an ar...

  Some of us old fuddy-duddies have been learning about the regulation of transcription for over forty years. When you've been teaching ...

  My local Liberal candidate is Omar Alghabra, who lost the last election to one of Harper's Conservatives. Omar sent me a link to this ...

  This is a letter sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Leader of the Opposition Michael Ignatieff. It is signed by hundreds of Canadia...

  Believe it or not, there are columnists at The National Post who actually understand the issue concerning Gary Goodyear's beliefs. Jo...