Sandwalk

Here's Daniel Dennett speaking in Montreal last October. He addresses the "problem" of what should replace religion once we ge...

  This video is making the rounds. I'm including it here because so many people have been discussing "civility" and "poli...

What did you learn at university? Not much, it seems, according to the data in a new book titled Academically Adrift . The book is reviewed ...

  This Friday night at 7:30 p.m. CFI Canada launches the much awaited Extraordinary Claims campaign with three lectures, a panel discussion...

  Evolution News & View is one of the main blogs for promoting Intelligent Design Creationism. Up 'till now it has not allowed comm...

Evolutionary psychologists never seem to give up. Their latest folly is to pretend that women have a series of evolved behaviors to avoid ra...

  Science has published the Science Hall of Fame , a list of the most famous scientists of the past few hundred years. They compiled the li...

  Check out the Marketplace show. If you live in Canada, go to Cure or Con? , otherwise watch it on YouTube (below). Our Center for Inquiry...

  We've known about this upcoming show for several months because the producers have been contacting skeptical groups to get both sides ...

  Here's a list of The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists . How many do you recognize? Are they good people or are they all morally deg...

There are many well-known examples of alternative splicing. These examples have been taught in undergraduate courses for 30 years and they a...

Everyone interested in evolution should read the famous critique of the adaptationist program by Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) and Richard ...

  Today is the first day of my course on molecular evolution and I want the students to experience the give-and-take of scientific—and not s...

Richard Feynman (1918–1988) was a very smart American physicist who's words are often quoted ... for good reason. Here's one quota...

Alex Ling alerted me to an important paper in last month's issue of PLoS Genetics. Pickrell et al. (2010) looked at low abundance RNAs i...