Sandwalk

  Last night we watched the first two episodes of The Pillars of the Earth . They were fantastic. The story takes place in England during t...

On the drive back from Reims to Brussels we stopped for dinner in Bouillon . We had a wonderful meal in a restaurant on the bank of the rive...

  When we were in Europe, we took a trip to Reims in Northeastern France. It's a 2.5 hour drive from Brussels where we were visiting my...

  The National Research Council of the National Academies (USA) has published a draft proposal of Core Ideas in science [ Standards Framewor...

  Last month, John Wilkins was at a conference on Religion and Tolerance and links to the complete video of the conference are posted on hi...

  Today's taxon of the week at Catalogue of Organisms is Astigmata [ Life in the Fast Lane ]. If you think you're not familiar with...

  Wait for the credits at the end. HatTip: Friendly Atheist .

  Nicholas Wade is often considered to be one of the best science journalists. He writes for The New York Times . His latest article is: Ad...

  As usual, Canadian opinions lie somewhere between those of Americans and Europeans [ Americans are Creationists; Britons and Canadians Sid...

  Scenes from the 18th Annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution, Lyon, France July 2010.

  I'm in Lyon for the evolution meeting and this was our day to see the city. We haven't been here for over 30 years. I love Europea...

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 ...