Sandwalk

The last Monday's Molecule was medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (MCAD) (PDB 2AIT). Nobody got the right answer [ Monday's Molecul...

Here's a CNN interview with Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss. It was recorded this morning. It's very unfortunate that the report...

Today is my daughter's birthday. She was born quite a few years ago in Geneva Switzerland while I was a postdoc. Here's Jane with ...

The Centre for Inquiry is sponsoring a brunch with Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss on Wednesday morning. You can sign up at Brunch with...

Coturnix (aka Bora Zivkovic) is coming to Toronto. He is the author of A Blog Around The Clock , a blog that currently resides on the Scient...

Some freelance science writer named Philip Ball has published an article in the April 25, 2013 issue of Nature : Celebrate the Unknowns . ...

Here (below) is my old friend, Keith Yamamoto, talking about taking risks in science. Keith and I were graduate students in Bruce Alberts...

Here's a short talk from my thesis supervisor on learning from failure. He tells the story of how he failed his Ph.D. oral and how he al...

PZ Myers has just given his students a take-home exam. Here's one of the questions [ It’s another exam day! ] ... Question 1: One of Sa...

More advertising for the Intelligent Design Creationists' tenth or eleventh attempt to destroy "Darwinism" [ Darwin's Doub...

It's been a while since I've linked to the Botany Photo of the Day even though I read it all the time. Check it out. What is that...

Jerry Coyne has discovered that a course at Ball State University (Indiana) teaches science from a viewpoint that's sympathetic to Intel...

Sixty years ago on this day, Nature published three back-to-back papers on the structure of DNA. It was a momentous day for science. Here&#...

The title of this post is a slight paraphrasing of Theodosius Dobzhansky's famous saying, " Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except i...

Having just sat through many talks and read many posters on how to measure what we teach, I'm struck by the overwhelming emphasis on how...