Sandwalk

A few months ago (June, 2024) I commented on an article by Tom Cech in The New York Times . [ Tom Cech writes about the "dark matter...

Back in 2021 Matt Ridley teamed up with Alina Chan to publish a book promoting the lab leak conspiracy theory about the origin of SARS-CoV-2...

Zeynep Tufekci is Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University (Princeton, NJ, USA). She is often prai...

Every now and then I check Google to see if there's any news about junk DNA. I use "junk DNA" as my search query. The fi...

I want to draw your attention to an excellent online book on bacterial genomes: Bacterial Genomes:Trees and Networks . The author is Aswin S...

Happy St. Patrick's Day! These are my great-grandparents Thomas Keys Foster, born in County Tyrone on September 5, 1852 and Eliza Ann Jo...

This is a lengthy conversation between Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker. It took place in Boston at the Chevalier Theatre in September 2024...

The idea that most of the human genome is junk originated more that 50 years ago. Since then, evidence in support of this concept has steadi...

I'm reveiwing some of the contributions to Evolutionary Biology: Contemporary and Historical Reflections Upon Core Theory . In this post...

Bruce Alberts, 1 Karen Hopkin, and Keith Roberts have published an essay on Why Trust Science . In this essay, we address the que...

A recent commentary in Nature prompts me to revisit an old bugaboo. The commentary discusses some recent work on CO 2 fixation in plants [...

There are a bunch of people who think that evolutionary theory needs to be extensively revised. They focus their attacks on a particular (i...

The Center for Science and Culture (sic) and the Discovery Institute (sic) have published another propaganda video on junk DNA. The emphasis...

The December 7th issue of New Scientist features a cover promoting an article by Kevin Lala , an evolutionary biologist at the University o...

This is a Come Let Us Reason Together (sic) podcast moderated by Lenny Esposito with Faxale "Fuz" Rana of Reasons to Believe a...