Sandwalk

Michael Behe's book, The Edge of Evolution , is very interesting. His main thesis is that there are some genotypes that are beyond the r...

The IDiots at the Discovery Institute have evolved something that they think is a winning strategy. They publish a book that has lots of sci...

This is Part III of several "Function Wars" 1 posts. How much of the human genome is conserved? The first post in this series...

I'm not a big fan of alternative splicing. I think it falls into the same category as pervasive transcrition—most of it is accidental [s...

I just learned today that Walter Gehring died in a car accident in Greece on May 29th. I learned of his death from the obituary by Michael ...

How many genes in the human genome? There's only one correct answer to that question and that's "we don't know." The...

I'm curious about how different people read the scientific literature. My way of thinking about science is to mentally construct a model...

I got an email message yesterday from a student who is taking a summer course in biochemistry. His professor asked the class to find "m...

You may never have heard of Riken. Here's what they say on their website [ Riken ] ... RIKEN is Japan's largest comprehensive resea...

This month's Carnival of Evolution is hosted by none other than the King of the Carnival, Bjørn Østman Pleiotropy . Read it at 73rd Car...

This is Part II of several "Function Wars" 1 posts. The first one is on Quibbling about the meaning of the word "function...

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...