Sandwalk

Pete Seeger is dead. That means something to those of us who grew up in the 1960s. It was a time when opposition to war was so strong and s...

John Hawks is a pretty cool guy. He studies anthropology with a special emphasis on the genetics of human evolution over the past million ye...

Last week's molecule was cholesterol [ Monday's Molecule #229 ]. The figure shows how the molecule would look in a lipid bilayer (me...

Massimo Pigliucci doesn't get enough respect. He's upset by the "New Atheists" who place a great deal of emphasis on the s...

I recently re-watched a program on The Agenda about high school education and what needs to be done to make it better. The broadcast was fr...

John Brockman is a famous literary agent. Over the years he has assembled a group of intellectuals, and people who aspire to be intellectua...

The Centre for Inquiry Canada is promoting an upcoming debate between Justin Trottier and Philip Cleevely on the topic "Is There a God...

Rufina Kim has re-started the discussion group we had last year. Join us for an evening of interesting conversation in room 5243 on the 5th ...

I live in Canada. It's winter. It gets cold. During the night it's about -20°C 1 . It seems like everyone in the city of Toronto i...

John Wilkins linked to essay by someone named William Reville on " Philosophers must oppose arrogance of scientism ." Reville is ...

There's a little kerfluffle in the blogosphere because an anonymous blogger has been outed. Michael Eisen posted an interesting comment ...

Last week's molecule was NADP ⊕ or nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate. That was an easy one [ Monday's Molecule #228 ]. Th...

I've been teaching my students about random genetic drift, phylogenetic trees, and the molecular clock. It's hard for undergraduates...

There's a big difference between publishing the complete sequence of a genome and having a highly accurate "finished" version ...

Some of us have been trying to educate the IDiots for over twenty years. It can be very, very, frustrating. The issue of junk DNA is a cas...