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I just bought Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology by Robert C. Richardson ($13 CDN). I couldn't resist after reading the b...

  Bora alerted me to something called the Dunning_Kruger Effect. Here's the Wikipedia definition and description [ Dunning–Kruger effec...

This is the seventh in a series of postings by guest blogger, Arlin Stoltzfus. You can read the introduction to the series at: Introduction ...

  Chris Mooney was at the AAAS meeting in Washington and he attended the session on Re-Envisioning the Science and Religion Dialogue . Most ...

There are many ways of making a fool of yourself. I know, because I've successfully attempted every one of them over the past few decade...

I've just finished revising my chapter on lipids and membranes for the 5th edition of my textbook. I decided to insert a short explanati...

  Here's Stephen Meyer on The 700 Club explaining why Intelligent Design Creationism is likely to be true. This is about as good an exp...

  Check out PZ Myer's "radical" tree of life [ Radial tree of life ]. Why is this tree "radical" 1 ? Because it comp...

  Alan I. Leshner is the CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Executive Publisher of Science . He has w...

Richard Dawkins is hosting a four part series on the human genome to be broadcast on BBC radio [ The Age of the Genome ]. Here's part of...

Mihaela Pertea and Steven L Salzberg have just published a paper in Genome Biology with an interesting title: Between a chicken and a grape...

His fellow science writers often think that Nicholas Wade is among the best of their ilk. Wade writes for the New York Times and his latest...

  Nature Publishing Group has responded to the potential boycott of its products by the Universities of California [ Nature vs. The Univer...

This is a topic that's dear to my heart? Why? Because it's one of the few things where Denyse O'Leary and I completely agree—the...