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November 22, 1963: President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. June 6, 1968: Robert ...

It was about 3pm and I was sitting in my geometry class at Nepean High School in Ottawa, Canada. This was my final year of high school. I li...

Nothing could be wrong until you realize that Science writer editor Elizabeth ("Liz") Pennisi is behind it. That changes things ...

Claudiu Bandea is a frequent commenter on this blog. Whenever the subject of junk DNA comes up he reminds us that he had a theory over twent...

For some reason the title reminds me of "What Does the Fox Say." Oh well, PZ Myers is desperately interested in knowing which way ...

I first became aware of Syvlia Brown when I saw her on Larry King Live ten years ago [ Interview with Sylvia Browne ]. As most of you know,...

R. Ford Denison has an excellent blog called This Week in Evolution . He recently posted an article about the evolution of multicellularity ...

There are a lot of myths surrounding the influence of the Texas Board of Education on the content of biology textbooks. Most people seem to ...

From Tressie McMillan Cottom at tressiemc [ The Audacity: Thrun Learns A Lesson and Students Pay ]. Sebastian Thrun, founder of Udacity, o...

BBC News is reporting that Fred Sanger has died [ Frederick Sanger: Double Nobel Prize winner dies at 95 ]. Sanger is one of the few people ...

The Green Party of Canada is led by Elizabeth May who has a seat in parliament. The Green Party (of Canada) advocates many positions that ar...

My philosopher friend, Chris DiCarlo, and I are trying to teach our students how to think critically. We use the evolution/creation debate a...

Last week's molecule was a Holliday junction, one of the key intermediates in recombination. It's named after Robin Holliday who ha...

The mayor of Toronto is an alcoholic, a drug user (cocaine), and many other things that make him unsuitable to hold any political office. Th...

A recent article in New Scientist made me annoyed. The title in the print edition is Cure for Baldness Finally Cuts It . It starts off with...