Sandwalk

The Pet Sounds album by The Beach Boys was released in 1966. The album ranks in the top ten of almost everyone's list of best albums (...

One thing that draws me to the ID movement is that it has the polite and understated ethic that science is supposed to have -- but does not ...

Is it true that the music of the Baby Boomers is a whole lot better than the music of Generation-X or the Millennials (Generation-Y)? Of cou...

Today's version of the Toronto Star has several articles on kindness and empathy. The feature article appears on the front page of the ...

In Denyse O'Leary's latest post she claims (again) that "Darwin's followers" used junk DNA as an argument for their po...

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 ...