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I once participated in a discussion about introducing indigenous ways of knowing in the Ontario science curriculum. The idea was to have hig...

One of my Facebook friends posted a link to an article on genetic drift on the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy website [ Genetic Drift ]...

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...

The Genetics Society has awarded the 2026 Mendel Medal to Joe Felsenstein. Some of you may know Joe because he sometimes posts comments on...

Arlin Stoltfus wrote an excellent book where he makes the case for mutationism—the idea that the course of evolution is determined by the oc...

Getting a Ph.D. means that you become an expert in that subject and you have demonstrated that you can think critically enough to advance ou...

There have been dozens of studies on the possible harmful effects of glyphosate. There are many well-funded organizations and tons of lawyer...

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup®, is back in the news in the United States so I think it's time to repost an ...

I've been reading Mathew Cobb's biography of Francis Crick and a sentence in the Prologue caught my eye. Cricks' scientifi...

We may not know a lot about how artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms work but the one thing we do know is that they are only as good as t...

The amount of a given protein in Escherichia coli depends on a number of factors such as the amount of mRNA and the rate of translation. Th...

We're interested in the last universal common ancestor of all life (LUCA). In theory, this is a species that gave rise to both Bacteria ...

Over the past few years I've been assessing AI algorithms to see if they can answer difficult questions about junk DNA, alternative spli...

It seems reasonable to assume that there's a genetic component to aging and the human life span. For example, it's clear that if you...

New Scientist has produced a special issue on the best ideas of the 21st century . Here's the complete list.