Sandwalk

Let's look at a recent post on Evolutin News * Views (sic): From Discovering Intelligent Design: Opposition from the Scientific Establi...

I've always been a bit embarrassed to admit that my own department doesn't adopt my textbook in their introductory biochemistry cour...

Some economist named George Gilder has read Darwin's Doubt , the latest IDiot book. Gilder says ... I spend my life reading science boo...

Last Monday I went back to my old high school (Nepean High School in Ottawa, Canada) to visit with students in various biology classes. My h...

The so-called " C-Value Paradox " was described over thirty years ago. Here's how Benjamin Lewin explained it in Genes II (19...

It's not difficult to find a proper definition of evolution. All you have to do is check your basic introductory textbooks on evolution....

Like most graduate departments, we are constantly evaluating and modifying our graduate program but rarely do we step back and look at the b...

This is getting more and more interesting. Now there's an article in Inside Higher Ed discussing the controversy over whether Eric Hedi...

Epicentre near Ottawa. Two quakes: 5.2 magnitude at 9:43 am and a 4.1 magnitude aftershock 10 minutes later. I didn't feel either of the...

There are some schools that think it's cool to show examples of simple Mendelian inheritance by collecting and analyzing the blood types...

Jerry Coyne has discovered that some obscure Professor in some American college is teaching from a Christian viewpoint in his class on "...

I was reading the latest spiel from Sal Cordova (scordova) when I noticed a reference to Michael Denton. Cordova was ranting about how Taxon...

The Ontario government funds Roman Catholic Schools but not schools of any other religion. I've just returned from a high school reunion...

A few weeks ago I criticized Philip Ball for an article he published in Nature : DNA: Nature Celebrates Ignorance . Phil has responded to m...

We attended the Nepean High School 90th Anniversary Celebration in Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) on the weekend. It was wonderful to see old fri...