Geneticist Steve Jones claims that human evolution has grind to a halt , and that our descendants a million years hence will look just like ...

Rich Lenski's group published this paper in PLoS Computational Biology less than two weeks ago: Clune J, Misevic D, Ofria C, Lenski RE,...

In A TEMPLETON CONVERSATION Jerome Groopman is asked by Michael Shermer why he believes at all. Here is his answer: Why believe? I have no...

In Denmark the ministry of education put aside money for education for young people with Asperger-syndrome . Aspies are often quite intellig...

So I arrived at the Beckmann auditorium at Caltech for  Origins - the BIG Questions  organized by the Skeptics Society . The advertised $5 b...

Jared Diamond will be in Claremont giving a talk on "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed". While Guns, Germs, and St...

I will be attending the Origins conference at Caltech this saturday, October 4th. Plan is to listen to the luminaries, sure, but also to do...