Here's a podcast from NPR's All Things Considered with a conversation between Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Tom Kilgore, CEO o...

Yesterday New Scientist published an article with a list of the ten twelve most exciting extinct animals to resurrect from well-preserved ...

A Beijing panda by the name of Gu Gu has just tasted human blood for the third time . Three men have in the last two years entered the panda...

What are the requirements for becoming a fireman? Today I spoke with one that I happened to run into, and he explained that the physical req...

It's a sad thing when a science teacher exclaims that it would be all right to teach something that is not science in the science class...

the2008weblogawards has a very abundant list blog awards. I didn't care to vote for any blogs in most categories, such as Best Pet Blog...

The newest issue of Nature has a list of the fifteen "examples published by Nature over the past decade or so to illustrate the breadt...

All right, so if we can't wait for W. to write an autobiography , then we can look forward to Laura's instead. The publisher said i...

Would you believe it? Fishermen are using live dogs as shark bait . Just toss them in the water with hooks through their noses. The dogs and...

Would you buy tuna at $818 per kilogram? In Japan they apparently do. The second most expensive blue-fin tuna ever was just sold at the Tsu...

I think I have to get in on this action. I don't know what for, though. What the hell is the point in claiming that Scarlett Johansson ...

Late Danish comedian/pianist Victor Borge improvising on his 80th birthday:

My laptop is being repaired, and I only have scant access to a computer at the moment. Here's the newest from Edwards Current. Pfft. He ...

Over on Greg Laden's blog is a post about the gap in salaries between men and women. The video ends with the words "Paying women 2...

Cate Blanchet refuses to ever have cosmetic surgery. OSCAR winner Cate Blanchett is refusing to buy into Hollywood's obsession of defyi...

I'm all for teaching evolution in science classes, and all for teaching creationism as an example of what science is not. However, I am ...

“I told him I wouldn’t reveal them, so that if he ever asked for my advice again, he’d feel comfortable doing it knowing that it wouldn’t be...

My favorite animal of all has just had its origin moved from America to Asia. A well preserved skull of a ~2.35 million year old cheetah ha...

Do all Alaskans name their kids these weird non-name names? Bristol, Sarah Palin's 18 year old daughter is naming her son Tripp . What t...

New Scientist has a list of their top ten evolution articles this year. A nice resource to get acquainted with the status of evolutionary t...