Sandwalk

The other day I was browsing through recently published papers in PLoS Biology and came across this one. Field D, Amaral-Zettler L, Cochrane...

Back in October 2009 I published my genealogical connection to Emperor Charlemagne [ My Family and Other Emperors ]. It is wrong. I relied t...

vjtorley (Vincent Joseph Torley) has posted on Uncommon Descent . The title of his posting is Someone’s wrong. Who is it? . The issues is wh...

Same-sex marriage is legal in ten countries (Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain and...

The New Democratic Party's "Faith and Social Justice Commission" has produced a video to prove that you can be religious and s...

Bill Dembski has just posted an article titled Who Will Be Michele Bachmann’s Science Advisers? . This is deeply ironic on many levels. Why ...

Canada is about to release a new set of polymer banknotes. Watch the video to see all the security features and the cool windows in the note...

From time to time my colleagues and I discuss the basic requirements of science literacy. We envisage a group of intelligent people at a par...

Back in April, Governor Rick Perry of Texas proclaimed a weekend of prayer (Friday, April 22, 2011, to Sunday, April 24, 2011). Texans were ...

Help me out, dear readers. I can't for the life of me figure out the logic behind the latest posting at Uncommon Descent : If you make a...

Here are the results of the most recent poll on junk DNA. Below it is the result from several years ago. I realize that the questions are di...

Don't you just hate it when bloggers post cute pictures of their children, grandchildren, cats, or molluscs? Tough. Here's my grandd...

My number one son 1 , Gordon Moran , is a texture artist working for a video game company in Vancouver. He has hooked up with his programmer...

It was late in the day when I heard a knock on my office door. I opened it to discover a strange man I hadn't seen in many years he intr...

This month's Carnival of Evolution (36th version) is hosted by Greg Laden at Greg Laden's Blog [ "If You Love Evolution, Twee...