Mormons are apparently not directly hostile against evolution and science in general, like so many other Christian denominations. They accep...

UPDATE 12/12: It appears that these pictures were not taken in Mugabe's home. Check this page out. I don't know how these pictures...

Via a Google advertisement entitled "Evo-Devo" needs "Onco" I found my way to the website of a James Graham . He wrote ...

Apologies to those of you who do not read Danish (yes, it's also a language). And a recommendation to take some classes as soon as poss...

William Ayers speaks out in the New York Times after the election, in which he was cast as the terrorist with whom Obama was intimate back...

In animals, saving energy when moving around is favored by natural selection. An evolutionary biologist and two anthropologists have now fou...

Why are men's beards so perfectly shaped? Most men have beard growing only in very defined areas on the face. It doesn't go all the ...

The Sierra Club are accepting donations to make sure that the Bush administration's last minute "midnight regulations" aren...

Andrew Knoll , Harvard paleontologist, gave a talk at Harvey Mudd College this evening on the paleontology of the early fossils on Earth. H...

I have heard a saying once: Acting in movies makes you rich, on TV makes you famous, and on stage makes you happy. Largely, and with many ex...

How do you want to be put to rest? In a coffin resembling a KLM Airliner, a Mercedes Benz, a Fish, a Fishing Canoe, a Leopard, a Chicken, a ...

The hell!¿?!        They actually sell these.                         !!!! Blue gives your kitty a sharp look -- jazzy and totally copacetic...

If, at age four, you are good at resisting temptation, then you will do better in life than those that aren't. Give a four year old one ...

Chlorella vulgaris is an asexual, unicellular green alga . It has been observed in the laboratory to maintain unicellularity for thousands ...

Two stories from my favorite Danish newspaper today about asinine credulity: Priest warns against Satan's offspring, nisser . They are ...

Four out of ten Americans have close friends or relatives who are gay . Four out of ten Englishmen think science classes should include Inte...

Here's another reason I loathe crowds: Wal-Mart worker dies in stampede . So, he went to Pamplona , or what? No, it was at Wal-Mart and...

A woman steals with her breasts (dk) in Denmark. She corners the victim, asks for directions to the hospital, and the opens her coat to rev...

Yet another example of how dire the consequences of being dismissive of science can be is in South Africa *, whose President, Thabo Mbeki , ...

Greenland got some sort of independence from Denmark in 1978. They're a self-governing Danish province, whatever that means exactly. Th...