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There's a very interesting editorial in the Oct 14, 2014 issues of Nature [see here ]. It's about a scientific paper that turned ou...

Denmark present a real problem for many Christians. It appears to be a successful secular society that has all but abandoned extreme forms o...

Last March, I dissected the views of James Tour, a chemist who doesn't understand evolution [ A chemist who doesn't understand evolu...

One of my friends is teaching introductory biochemistry and he thinks this video (below) is worth posting on his blog [ here ]. I do not wan...

Razib Khan writes at Gene Expression . He's a big fan of personal genetics and genome sequencing and, in the past, has been a defender o...

Gordon Elliot Mullings (kairosfocus) is explaining to his fellow creationists how to debate evolution. His latest post focuses on the techni...

It's very difficult to teach students to be skeptical of the scientific literature and how it's reported. I read this press release ...

How biochemistry students can become multi-millionaires by making plants more efficient. Has someone finally succeeded? Living organisms n...

This is another story about press releases. In this case, it's an article published by ScienceDaily : Non-coding half of human genome un...

Here's some other little known facts about Joe Felsenstein. He doesn't like Tim Hortons. He likes beaver tails. He knows a lot about...

Our Dean of Medicine, Catharine Whiteside, announced recently that the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Pharmacy are entering into a j...

I believe that Gould was correct when he pronounced the death of the Modern Synthesis [ Is the "Modern Synthesis" effectively dead...

I'm told that the Mark IX irony meter is still being tested. It's been almost two years and those of us with the older Mark VIII met...

The National Science Foundation (USA) selected this year's recipients of the National Medal of Science. President Obama made the announc...

Who are these people? I pride myself on being a generalist so I think I've heard of any important discoveries in biology. I may not alwa...