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Some of you are probably watching Saturday morning cartoons but for those of you looking for other forms of entertainment I offer a list of ...

My son, Gordon, ran in a 19km race at Whistler (British Columbia) last weekend. There were lots of obstacles and a 10,000 volt electric shoc...

This is Part I of the "Function Wars: posts. The second one is on The ENCODE legacy . 1 Quibbling about the meaning of the word ...

We were at our local supermarket yesterday and I wanted to buy some large Kaiser rolls . Unfortunately, the bins were empty. I guess the c...

The people of Ontario (Canada) voted in a provincial election yesterday and the Liberal Party won a majority of the seats. The leader of the...

Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day—the day British, Canadian, and American troops landed on the beaches of Normandy. 1 For baby boome...

Stephanie Keep is the new editor of Reports of the National Center for Science Education at NCSE (National Center for Science Education). ...

The latest issues of ASBMB Today contains an article by Brent R. Stockwell and Michael Cennamo with a provocative title: Reimagining the und...

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...