Sandwalk

An awful of of people seem to waking up to the idea that TED talks are not what they're supposed to be. They attract a lot of kooks who ...

I just heard about the NAFTA Superhighway . It's going to be as wide as four football fields . Is that Canadian football fields, Mexican...

The term "pH" is used to measure acidity. Strong acids, like hydrochloric acid or sulfuric acid, have very a very low pH while wea...

Paul McBride is causing quite a stir among the creationists. His review of Science & Human Origins was so devastating that they couldn...

Today is the day that the Mars rover Curiosity landed. A remarkable American technological achievement. There have been many other technolo...

Dr. Greg Wells is a professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto. He's the author of Supe...

Casey Luskin has posted an email message that he recently sent to someone who inquired about Intelligent Design Creationism. It describes hi...

A few months ago I posted an exam question from my course on evolution [ Exam Question #1 ]. It was designed to test student's understan...

If you've been watching the Olympics, you've heard the story many times from coaches, athletes, and even team doctors. They all tell...

The word "stasis" entered our consciousness when Gould and Eldredge promoted the concept of punctuated equilibria (see Darwin on G...

It's often quite difficult to imagine how a new enzyme activity could have evolved "from scratch." After all, aren't enzym...

We're getting close to the beginning of the semester in the northern hemisphere. That means a lot of high school students will be experi...

According to plant geneticist, John Sanford, the human race is degenerating rapidly. It's one of the trade secrets of biology. Every pop...

This month marks the 50th edition of Carnival of Evolution . The latest version is hosted on Teaching Biology . Read it at: Carnival of Evol...

I am an atheist. What does that mean? It means that I have never seen any evidence that supernatural beings exist. I don't think the dev...