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We knew this was coming but it's still a noteworthy event [ I retire today ]. I like what Jerry Coyne says about his career, so far, ...

Canada is in the middle of a Federal election campaign. The vote is on October 19th . Currently the Conservative Party under Stephen Harper...

There's a very good reason why the creationist website Evolution News & Views (sic) doesn't allow comments but that won't s...

A few months ago Nature published an article on how to create a science-literate population. There's a letter in the Sept. 17th (2015) ...

My son's new game, For The King , is doing well on Kickstarter. So far they have over 1600 backers and over $78,000 [ Kickstarter: For T...

Emile Zuckerkandl (1922-2013) and Linus Pauling (1901-1994) published a paper on the evolution of proteins back in 1964. The original pape...

Some of you might recall that I gave a presentation last June on "Replaying the Tape of Life" at a Café Scientifique in Mississaug...

Many of us think that the C-Value Paradox isn't really a paradox any more. We think that the variations in genome size among different s...

There's a big number (63,000) in the windows of a biology laboratory somewhere in the world. There's also a picture of Darwin so it ...

Recall that my son, Gord, and his friends Colby Young, David Lam, and Sean Hoyle [ The Dev Team ] formed IronOak Games to create "For ...

The figure on the right has been circulating on Facebook . It suggests that philosophers in the Philosophy of Science are perplexed about th...

My son, Gord, and his friends Colby Young, David Lam, and Sean Hoyle [ The Dev Team ] formed IronOak Games . Their first game will be "...

Colby Young, Gordon Moran, David Lam, and Sean Hoyle of IronOak Games are making a game called For The King . Follow them on Facebook at...

3 Quarks Daily is running their annual contest to pick the best blog posts in the past year. The finalists will be picked by popular vote a...

I recently stumbled on a paper with an intriguing title" "Sixty years of genome biology" (Doolittle et al., 2013). It celebra...