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Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist at the City College of New York. Like many physicists, he thinks he's smart enough to know every...

There are two competing worldviews in the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology. The distinction was captured a few years ago by Laur...

There's an interesting video of ten famous women scientists at Interesting S_Word : [ Top 10 Female Scientists of History ]. The image o...

If you want to be a serious participant in the debate over junk DNA then you should watch this video. Dan Graur presents the standard argume...

A reader directed me to a 2015 ENCODE workshop with online videos of all the presentations [ From Genome Function to Biomedical Insight: ENC...

Today is Darwin Day but I'm too busy with other things to write a new post in his honor. So here's a post from 2007 (slightly update...

ENCODE researchers answered a bunch of question on Reddit a few days ago. I asked them to give their opinion on how much junk DNA is in our ...

Check out Science AMA Series: We’re Drs. Michael Keefer and James Kobie, infectious ... . (Thanks to Paul Nelson for alerting me to the disc...

I think philosophy has lost its way. The discipline gives credence to religious philosophers who write about god(s) and to other philosopher...

Watch Ricky Gervais explain atheism to Stephen Colbert. I like his explanation of the difference between science and religion. In fact, I li...

Nick Lane is very good at explaining complex biology and biochemistry. He is the winner of the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Prize for...

Otangelo Grasso is a creationist who's convinced he can learn to understand biochemistry by reading what's on the internet and copy-...

It's not Saturday morning but you can enjoy this cartoon anyway. Tom Bethell ... writes like a dream.           &nbsp           —F...

Photosynthesis is the series of reactions that capture light energy and use it to make ATP and sometimes reducing equivalents (e.g NADPH). T...