Sandwalk

  Friday's Urban Legend from About: Urban Legends and Folklore . This photograph is supposed to have been taken from inside a plane that...

  According to New Scientist the Biologic Institute in Redmond, Washington is doing research to support Intelligent Design Creationism. The...

  The Toronto Star reports that James Till and Ernest McCulloch were named to the Order of Ontario . Till and McCulloch, Professors in the D...

  Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe writes on Atheists' bleak alternative First, the good news ... FROM THE land that produced "A Chr...

  The little dust-up in Dover Pennsylvania has been over for a year. The judge has ruled that Intelligent Design Creationism (IDC) is just r...

  Late Night with Conan O'Brien presents Biochemistry With the Stars .

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1902. "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by his work on sugar and purine synt...

  The Neurophilosopher reminds me that he doesn't have a picture of him on the Sandwalk (yet) but he has the next best thing. He, me, a...

  Name this molecule. You must be specific. We need the exact name and why it's important in every living cell. Comments will be blocked...

  A.J. Milne over at The Accidental Weblog got into a fight in a bar on Monday night. The cause? ... whether ATP had higher energy than ADP...

  Nick Matzke was kind enough to send along a link to a radio talk show taped on December 22, 2005—just a few days after the Jones decision...

 

  The Conservative government of Stephen Harper might fall on the issue of Afghanistan. The leader of the Bloc Quebecois is threatening a no...

  I love "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip." I hope it doesn't get cancelled. The Tribute to New Orleans clip is up on the Studi...

  Some of us have been victims of editorial terrorism. This is when you send off your perfect masterpiece to some editor in Indiana and it c...

  When the Jones decision was first published I read every word. I was very impressed. Here was a man who seemed to have learned a lot of so...

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 64 people have been hospitalized as a result of bacterial infection arising f...

  Medical News Today warns us that Stanley Cup Playoffs Can Harm Your Hearing . Well, duh! Smart Toronto residents have known this for decad...

  Delivered today at the Truman Presidential Library in Independence Missouri. [ Full Text from BBC News ] That is why this country has hist...

  The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, by Francis S. Collins, Free Press, New York (2006) Francis Collins is the c...

  When PZ Myers and I visited London in October, I took him to the cafeteria in the crypt of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields. We ate our lunch on...

  Okay, so "taking over" may be a bit of an exaggeration. But according to the Washington Post black squirrels now make up 5-25% ...

  "There's a sucker born every minute" according to the famous saying incorrectly attributed to P.T. Barnum . Now we have furt...

  John Sullum on reasononline reviews two new book on obesity [ Lay Off the Fatties ]. The books are "Fat Politics: The Real Story Beh...

  howstuffworks asks Are left-handers quicker thinkers than righties? . No.

  Looking for a Christmas present for PZ Myers? Look no further. Nature reports that invisibility cloaks made from octopus skin are just ar...

  The latest opinion poll in Canada shows the Liberals (red) ahead of the Troglodytes (blue) in every part of Canada except Alberta. Almost ...

We're willing to give you Alberta. They already have the same Queen as you so that part won't be a problem. Think of the advantages....

The competition is heating up so this is our last offer. You can have Alberta but we need to get something in return. Not much, mind you, bu...

[ Part 1 ][ Part 2 ][ Part 3 ][ Part 4 ] If the Tree of Life Fell, Would We Recognize the Sound? I've been summarizing a series of paper...

The latest (Dec. 9, 2006) issue of New Scientist has a remarkably stupid series of articles written by so-called "lone voices." W...

Friday's Urban Legend from snopes.com The claim is that Swiffer WetJet contains antifreeze and traces are left when the floor has been c...

The Kyoto Protocols set out goals for industrialized nations to lower carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants. On average, greenhouse ...

Same-sex marriage has been legal in Ontario since June 2003. It gradually spread to other provinces as provincial courts declared that laws ...

This guy is my hero! One of these days I'm gonna do the same thing when a student talks on the phone in class.

 

Tonight on "The Nature of Things with David Suzuki" the entire show was devoted to Stephen Lewis and his tireless battle against A...

  John Wilkins of Evolving Thoughts resting in the shelter on the Sandwalk. What is he reading?

Casey Luskin, the chief IDiot over at Discovery Institute has posted an addendum to his inept article on junk DNA [ Follow-up on Junk-DNA ]....

Photos by Richard Carter .

  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1930. "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthes...

The Darwin Exhibit is coming to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) from March 8 - August 4, 2008 ! I can hardly wait. Let's have a Howlerfes...

Check out 'Looney' - another creationist engineer with all the answers from Scott Page on All-Too-Common Dissent. On talk.origins t...

One of our students just gave a seminar on molecular dynamics simulations. She's attempting to model an important biochemical process as...

The American Natural History Museum has prepared a short video that lets you Take a Short Video Tour of the Sandwalk . You can walk the pat...

The University of British Columbia (UBC) Botanical Garden publishes a Botany Photo of the Day. Today's photo is Physarum cinareum , a ...

Dave Scott and Uncommon Descent have "discovered" that the homepage of TalkOrigins Archive has links to porn sites [ Talkorigins.o...

  "Academic Matters" is a journal of higher education published by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (O...