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Ken Ham is the man behind Answers in Genesis and the Creation Museum. He's upset with Lawrence Krauss because Krauss has been critical ...

Here's the list of Time Magazine's Top 10 Scientific Discoveries . Given all the hype about The Darwinius Affair last May it'...

Many eukaryotic genomes have a large amount of "excess" DNA that doesn't have any of the functions we normally assign to DNA (...

  A reader alerted me to a posting by Greta Christina on The Blowfish Blog . 1 She discusses Why Did Gayness Evolve? . This is not your ord...

  One of the major questions in 21st century sociology is why are Americans so much more religious than citizens in other industrialized nat...

  Jason Rosenhouse has posted a quotation from Bertrand Russell [ Quote for the Day ]. Like Jason, I am a fan of the great man. Here's ...

  What do these two images have in common? You'll have to read Ms. Sandwalk's blog to find out [ One Month to go ]. Next month will...

Here's one of the most interesting articles in the current edition of Evolution: Education and Outreach . White, J., Tollini, C.D., Col...

  I've read all of the books by Niles Eldredge. He's one of my favorite science authors [ Good Science Writers: Niles Eldredge ]. H...

  As most of you know, Richard Dawkins is not a fan of the Spandrels paper by Gould and Lewontin [ A Critique of the Adaptationist Programm...

I'm sure you've all been dying to know how many Nobel Laureates were vegetarians. Well, here's the answer. It was was on the bac...

This is a collection of "geneticists" from the latest issue of Genetics (November 2009). How many can you identify? The correct a...

  Almost anything goes in Ontario's House of Commons and debates can be rather lively. However, tradition (and House rules) state that ...

The Royal Society of Britain has opened access to a number of classic papers that have been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society . ...

Michael Clarkson is a biotech postdoc who blogs at Discount Thoughts . One of his recent thoughts is Don't look for "the" str...