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Back in 1997, James Shapiro wrote an article for the Boston Review entitled " A Third Way ." It was a very confusing article. His...

John Wilkins has it right: Begging that damned question . For hundreds of years, the phrase "begging the question" meant somethi...

On May 24th 2014 Ed Yong (@edyong209) tweeted .... Those surveys about views on evolution are a terrible guide to “science literacy” (which...

An old high school friend 1 added a comment on a previous post where he alerted me to a new (for me) blog called "Piece of Mind."...

Last week the Provost of the University of Saskatchewan fired Robert Buckingham, Dean of Public Health, for his outspoken criticism of plans...

The provost of the University of Saskatchewan, Brett Fairbairn, resigned yesterday (Monday, May 20, 2014) just before an emergency meeting o...

Last week's molecule (above) [ Monday's Molecule #240 ] is a derivative of 2′-deoxythymidine triphosphate that's used in DNA seq...

The decision to fire Robert Buckingham gets more and more interesting every day. On Wednesday, the Provost fired Buckingham and told him tha...

Apparently, some sane person at the University of Saskatchewan had a talk with the President and informed her that she was in very deep doo-...

Chris Buddle of McGill University (Montreal, Canada) thinks that instructors should stop putting your Powerpoint slides on-line . He makes...

The university of Saskatchewan fired Robert Buckingham the other day. Buckingham was Executive Director (Dean) of the School of Public Healt...

When the ENCODE Consortium published their results in September 2012, the popular press immediately seized upon the idea that most of our ge...

I don't normally celebrate my birthday in public but I made the mistake of putting my birth date on my Facebook page so lots of people a...

Last week's molecule (right) [ Monday's Molecule #239 ] was 2-carboxy-D-arabinitol 1-phosphate. It's an inhibitor of the enzyme...

Let's briefly review what happened in September 2012 when the ENCODE Consortium published their results (mostly in Nature ). Here'...