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  There are many things that are harmful to children—poverty and war come to mind. There's also superstition and ignorance. Believe it...

  A bunch of British scholars have issued a Joint statement on creationism and evolution in schools . The list of signatories include all t...

  Two former undergraduate students of mine have started a blog called The Protein Engineer . A blog started by two graduate students, 1100...

  Most civilized, democratic countries have abolished capital punishment . This is especially true of those countries with a Christian tradi...

  In my class on Scientific Misconceptions and Controversies we discuss the ways in which scientific reasoning is used and misused in deba...

  Lab Times is a magazine that reports on news for life scientists in Europe. Their current issue (Sept. 14, 2011) has an "analysis...

Transposons are mobile genetic elements that jump around in our genome (and the genomes of every species). They are known by various names s...

  I recently learned a lot about steampunk by attending Polaris 25 last July. I'm thinking I should put together an outfit that I can ...

  Gordon Moran (my son) and his friend Kevin Forbes are building a game (app) for mobile devices. You can follow their progress on: Omnisa...

The Discovery Institute is the leading proponent of Intelligent Design Creationism—a form of creationism that concentrates on proving evolu...

Up until now I have been proud of the fact that nobody is banned on Sandwalk . I delete all spam that consist entirely of threats and incohe...

  There are kooks everywhere. Some people believe they have been abducted by UFOs and others believe that the moon landings never happened....

Coalition Calls for Defunding of Catholic Boards, End to Discrimination Against Gays in Publicly Funded Schools KEEP THE FAITH—BUT NOT IN O...

This month's Carnival of Evolution (39th version) is hosted by Cromercrox, a "Celebrity Nutritionist" who lives in Cromer, No...

We're in Brussels babysitting my granddaughter Zoë. Yesterday we went to see the Canadian National Vimy Memorial on Vimy Ridge, the s...