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This is a collection of Sandwalk posts on mutation starting in 2007. The latest ones are at the bottom of the list. March 27, 2007 Silen...

From Wikipedia [ irony ] ... Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning dissimulation or feigned ignorance) is a rhetorical d...

This is pretty cool. You can ask Google Scholar to collect all citations to your published articles and display them as a chart [ Citations ...

Timothy Caulfield published a nice article in The national Post last week where he lambasted naturopathy and homeopathy [ Don’t legitimize...

Here's a notice from the BC Humanist Association. Recent secular victories in Chilliwack are at risk. On November 13th, the Board of t...

Here are the biology students at the University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario, Canada) dancing and singing to " Anna Sun " by Walk t...

Last night the Liberal Party of Ontario selected a new leader, Kathleen Wynne . Since it's the governing party, she automatically become...

There are several types of genome sequence. Some are relatively incomplete and they don't really count. Others have been thoroughly sequ...

Eric Lewellyn is an enthusiastic postdoc in the Drubin/Barnes Lab at US Berkeley. (They work on membrane trafficking.) Eric tries to conv...

I've long been a supporter of the Federal Liberal Party of Canada. It's the party of Mike Pearson and Pierre Elliot Trudeau—two Prim...

We had a fun meeting last night thanks to Rufina Kim [ WTF Is Science? ]. A bunch of students showed up along with Steve Livingston, the new...

PZ Myers posted some lecture notes from his developmental biology course [ What I taught today: molecular genetics and basic concepts ]. Her...

Here's a short paragraph containing three sentences from my textbook (page 584). Is there anything wrong with any of these sentences? U...

Everyone knows about TED talks ( Ideas Worth Spreading ). They know that TED talks are "riveting talks by remarkable people." Or a...

The Revisionaries is a documentary about the Texas state board of education and their attempt to suppress science in Texas public schools....