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  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989 "for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes" J. Michael B...

  Fern Elsdon-Baker has written an article for New Scientist entitled Comment: The Dawkins dogma . It begins with a description of the self...

  Can factual information change people's minds? Most people assume the answer is "yes." After all, if people believe somethin...

  I thought last week's molecule would be a challenge but Sandwalk readers came up with the correct answer even in the middle of summer...

  A draft sequence of the dog ( Canis lupus familiaris ) genome has been available for several years. One of the reasons for working with do...

  Believe it or not, there are otherwise intelligent people out there who actually take Pascal's Wager seriously. Here's what happe...

  I want to be like Janet D. Stemwedel when I grow up. She has an amazing ability to think clearly and it's combined with an equally ama...

  I have a confession to make. I've always been a fan of West Side Story. I never saw the Broadway production but I saw the movie and ...

  Here's Buzz Aldrin reacting to being called a coward and a liar. This is one of those times when I can't blame someone for throwin...

  I'm working on the next edition of my textbook. From time to time I'm going to use you (readers) as guinea pigs to try out some ne...

  The molecule is the Src protein tyrosine kinase from chicken ( Gallus gallus ). The scr gene is a proto-oncogene, meaning that is the nor...

  Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum have published an article in Newsweek [ Defenders of the Faith: Scientists who blast religion are hur...

  I'm deeply suspicious of people who think they're doing God's will. But I'm positively frightened by people who believe th...

  The Texas Board of Education is doing all of us a great favor by showing that the real fight isn't just evolution vs creationism or sc...

We don't really have a (small "c") conservative party in Canada. The closest thing we have is the (large "C") Conser...