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  Jerry Coyne wrote an interesting article about the evolution of laughter . He closes with .. So laughter, at least when being tickled, app...

  Fr. Alphonse de Valk writes in Catholic Insight : Atheism: a threat to civilization Christian belief in Canada Today the Christian belief ...

  Denyse O'Leary collects silly Darwinian tales of the sort usually referred to as "just-so" stories. She alerted me to some r...

  Matt Nisbet is at it again. Here's something from his latest posting [ Science Literacy and the New Atheist Ideology: Rethinking Defin...

  Chris Mooney and Jerry Coyne are having a discussion about whether religion and science are compatible. Coyne says they are not and I agre...

  Simon Singh has decided to appeal the decision of a British court. That court ruled that his article on chiropractic in The Guardian cont...

  From The Wichita Eagle Kansas (USA): George Tiller shooting prompts PETA ad campaign in Wichita . A national animal rights group plans to...

  The Darwinius affair continues. Let's recap the events. As Atlantic Productions puts it on their website .. THE LINK is a major multi...

  This week's winner is Mike Fraser of the University of Toronto. (Yeah, Canada!) Here's what he wrote, The molecule is the Na+/K+ A...

  Science Nation is an online magazine produced by the National Science Foundation (USA). The first "issue" was published yesterd...

  Fifteen years ago, my faculty association (union) negotiated some increased coverage to our health plan. They added visits to the chiropra...

  The poll has closed and here are the results. A slight majority say that organizations like AAAS (amd NAS) should say nothing about the co...

  Name this molecule. Be as specific as possible. You must also identify the missing products and reactants. Be sure to get the stoichiometr...

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) post videos on YouTube under CDCStreamingHealth . Here's part of their blurb ... ...

  Want to know how to win friends and influence your allies? Shut down the border and turn your country into a fortress. That's one way ...