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  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1926 "for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma" Johannes Andreas Grib Fibiger (1...

  Let me say, right at the start, that I really don't care whether Charles Darwin was a deist, an agnostic, an atheist, or something els...

  Today is Remembrance Day in Canada. It's a day to remember that war is evil and horrible. It's a day to remember that war represe...

  I've often been critical of the arguments made by IDiots Intelligent Design Creationists. They consist mostly of claims that evolutio...

  The creature is a nematode, specifically a Soybean cyst nematode. The relevant Nobel Prize was to Johannes Fibiger who got for it "di...

  Discover magazine sponsored a contest where you had to produce a two minute video explaining evolution. The judge was PZ Myers. Here'...

  The American Association for the Advancement of Science has just announced the Kavli Science Journalism Awards for 2009 . It's a very ...

  We all get spam in our mail box and usually there's nothing you can do about it. This time there is. I got this message today. Subject...

  Twenty-nine men died on November 10, 1975 when the S.S. Edmund Fitgerald sank in a storm on Lake Superior.

  Check out the Best of 2009 for two lists of the top ten science books. One list was chosen by "editors" and the other list was ...

  Sometimes it's almost impossible to find an image of a specific molecule that honors a Nobel Laureate. This is another one of those ti...

  Ginko biloba is the only living species in the division (phylum?) Ginkgophyta. It is a species of deciduous tree that's only distantl...

  Charles and Camilla are visiting Toronto but you wouldn't know it if you didn't read the papers. Unless, of course, you just happe...

  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2001 "for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle" Leland H. Hartwell (...

  This video illustrates the extreme stupidity of those who believe in homeopathy. The person who posted the video on YouTube recently recei...