Sandwalk

Bill Maher thinks he's a smart person ... maybe even an intellectual. Here's a video of him attacking smart people who believe reall...

Sometimes I really wonder what goes on at the Discovery Institute. As most of you know by now, Stephen Meyer has written a new anti-evolut...

I was cleaning up my files and I came across this photo from seven years ago. It's one of those vanity photos 1 where I try to impress ...

My friends and colleagues, David Isenman and Jacqueline Segall, used to have a big tree in their back yard. On Monday July 8th it rained ......

What the heck is humanism? The short answer is ... I have no idea. If someone tells me they're a humanist then I can guess that they h...

The Francis Crick Institute is under construction in London (UK). When I first heard about this I thought that it would be a wonderful pla...

As most of you already know, I think the Three Domain Hypothesis is dead. The history of life is better explained as a net with rampant tran...

Some bacterial genomes are quite large. A few are larger than the smallest eukaryotic genomes. Many species of cyanobacteria are complex, ...

The cyanobacteria are interesting for a number of reasons. They have a complex photosynthesis pathway with two separate phostosystems and an...

I have many pet peeves. One of them concerns the people who build paths and walkways. If you're going to spend a lot of money constructi...

Remember how the IDiots are always trying to tell us that their movement is scientific? It's all about scientific evidence for design. ...

It's safe to say that a majority of knowledgeable scientists now agree that the most of our genome is junk. This is bad news for Intelli...

You all remember Jenny McCarthy, right? She's the person who urges parents not to vaccinate their children, prompting formation of the J...

Last week's molecule was depicted on a stamp honoring Gerty Cori. It was supposed to be the "Cori ester" (glucose 1-phosphate)...

On July 14, 1789 a bunch of French citizens stormed the Bastille and liberated a handful of political prisoners [ Bastille Day ]. It marks t...