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  I love the food trucks. Today was a special day, there were seven new food trucks visiting our campus. There were so many choices .... ...

  For all of us who weren't there, here's what The Thinking Atheist saw at the Reason Rally last weekend.

  You blew it last week because you didn't follow instructions. It's not going to get any easier. This week you have to identify th...

The predicted mutation rate in humans is thought to be about 130 mutations per generation or 10 -10 per nucleotide per generation [ Mutatio...

  I subscribe to New Scientist . Many years ago, I decided that it was the best of the popular science magazines—better than Scientific Amer...

  Richard Dawkins writes in yesterday's Washington Post [ Who would rally against reason? ]. March 24th is a landmark date for Washi...

  I was searching through some old posts today and I came across I Rank Number One on Google from October 2007. The idea was to come up wi...

  Protein synthesis can be divided into three stages. First, there's the initiation stage when a ribosome binds to the initiation cod...

  Richard Dawkins created a bit of a stir among the theists by claiming that he is an African ape. Someone named Vasko Kohlmayer was par...

  The last few challenges have been too easy so I'm going to make this week's molecule a bit more difficult. Not only do you have t...

  A lot of people are going to Washington next Saturday to stand 1 near the reflecting pool for eight hours listening to short speeches an...

Shame on the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) . It has awarded a prestigious prize (US $10,000) to John Mattick, director of the Centre for ...

  Today is the Ides of March a famous day in European history because of Brutus, Cassius and a bunch of other Roman dudes. Did you ever w...

  There's a picture of a yeast ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae ) ribosome on the cover of the Dec. 16, 2011 issue of Science . The paper insi...

  Some species make this molecule for a very special reason. Identify the molecule using the common name and the IUPAC name. You must also ...