Sandwalk

  Dr. Joan Bushwell's Chimpanzee Refuge is the latest blog to jump ship. That makes three or four blogs that have left the SEED group i...

  John Hawks recently posted a comment about adaptationists [see Richard Lewontin: "[T]oo rapid for genetic adaptation" ]. Hawks s...

  The first draft of the mouse genome was published by the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium back in 2002. At the time it was the only avai...

  Last Fall I joined the Liberal Party of Canada in order to have a say in electing a new leader and a new candidate in my riding. My riding...

  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1924 "for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram" Willem Einthoven (1...

  The first draft of the human genome sequence was announced on June 26, 2000. There was a huge press conference in the East Room of the Whi...

The Discovery Institute has a new website called Faith + Evolution . It's designed to explore the relationship, if any, between the Chr...

  After many years of service as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Francis Collins resigned from NIH last ye...

  Thomas Baekdal advises his clients on how to communicate in the 21st Century. He has posted an analysis of current sources of information ...

  Yesterday was Towel Day in honor of Douglas Adams. The photograph is from the streets of Innsbruck, Austria, in 2005. That's where Ad...

  UPDATE: The "molecule" is a normal electrocardiograph (ECG) of a human heartbeat [see Wikipedia: Electrocardiography ]. The Nob...

  Denyse O'Leary is in Sudbury attending the Canadian Science Writers Conference. One of the speakers was Lawrence Krauss&mdahs;who ...

  Brian Switek is an undergraduate at Rutgers University in New Jersey (USA). He's the man behind Laelaps . Brian knows a lot about foss...

  We've all had this problem. Try to choose the perfect gift for your partner without asking their opinion. Chances are, you got yoursel...

  I once wrote an essay called " Theistic Evolution: The Fallacy of the Middle Ground ." The point I was trying to make is that Th...