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Jerry Coyne posted this video and I thought it was so funny I just had to put it on my website blog.

I'm trying to understand how the rules announced by President Jo Ann Gora would work in practice. Let's think about how they might...

A few months ago Jerry Coyne learned that an astronomy professor (Eric Hedin) at Ball State University (Indiana, USA) was advocating an inte...

The failure to recognize the implications of the non-coding DNA will go down I think as the biggest mistakes in the history of molecular bio...

John Mattick is a Professor and research scientist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research at the University of New South Wales (Austra...

I favor a strategy called "Teach the Controversy." 1 I think high school teachers should directly address issues that are controv...

Last week's molecule was the the R stereoisomer of ibuprofen [(( R )-2-(4-(2-methylpropyl)phenyl)propanoic acid]. The winner was underg...

This list is biased toward Americans and Englishmen. I'm sure there are many others who deserve to be in the top 25. There are other pro...

One of my ancestors is Katherine de Roet (1349-1403) better known as Katherine Swynford since she married Hugh Swynford. Katherine was the m...

I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. One of my Ph.D. students (Sharon Shtang) wrote her thesis on sequence comparisons and...

Trinity Western University is located in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. It wants to have a Law School so it has applied for accreditati...

The Chair of my department 1 asked me to post this job advertisement in case any biochemists might be interested. It's a challenging po...

Melissa Wilson Sayres blogs at mathbionerd and Panda's Thumb . A recent post on Panda's Thumb address a tweet from Daniel Wegmann...

Well, maybe not really serious. His latest post on Evolution News & Views (sic) is about something called "Darwinian censorship&qu...

Intelligent Design Creationism is a movement dedicated to discrediting evolution and attacking the rational explanation of nature. 1 The ev...