Sandwalk

This video is making the rounds and a lot of atheists are wetting their pants over Stephen Fry's response to the question of what he wou...

The results of the latest PEW/AAAS survey are getting a lot of attention [ Public and Scientists’ Views on Science and Society ]. Most peopl...

My community (Peel Region, west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is changing the way it collects trash so it put out a pamphlet to advise citize...

A few years ago the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) sponsored a study of undergraduate education in the biologica...

A lot of people have spent a lot of time and effort studying undergraduate education. Why not pay attention to what these experts have to sa...

The American Association for the Advancement of Science holds a meeting every February. This year the meeting is in San Jose, California. Th...

If you want to learn biology, I suggest you take this course taught by Eric Hovind . It's a good illustration of the importance of MOOCs...

There's been a lot of talk recently about a paper claiming that two thirds of all cancers are due to bad luck [ Bad Luck of Random Mutat...

Back in 1998 the Intellignet Design Creationists published the Wedge Strategy . They set themselves several goals including some twenty year...

Barry Arrington, the chief IDiot on Uncommon Descent , has just published a post on The Credulity of those Posing as the Champions of Scienc...

A recent survey reports that 80.44% of Americans believe that there should be mandatory labels on food containing DNA [ Food Demand Syrvay ]...

Francis Collins is the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the USA. He spoke recently at the 33rd Annual J.P. Morgan Hea...

One of the most important problems in biochemistry & molecular biology is the role (if any) of pervasive transcription. We've known ...

"for their pioneering analyses and fundamental contributions to the understanding of genetic polymorphism" It is the great irony ...

There is a growing recognition among teachers that we need to teach the "Nature of Science" (NOS). Ideally, this should begin in t...