Oh ....! John McWhorter really made a fool of himself talking to Michael Behe. He think Behe nailed it in Darwin's Black Box, and has a ...

The Swedish newspaper that published an article by a freelance journalist claiming that Israeli troops harvested organs from Palestinians, i...

If you've never heard about Project Steve , then amuse yourself by catching up. The NCSE launched Project Steve to mock the Dissent Fro...

Sorry to be so blunt, but here's what I consider to be one of those crazy evolutionary stories of this and that human trait being adapti...

Scientia Pro Publica is up on Grrlscientist's blog, Living the Scientific Life . One of the posts is about a paper that has been blogge...

"Ever since Darwin"™ [1] it has been thought that the human vermiform appendix doesn't serve a function any more, but that th...

The irony kills me. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman doesn't seem to understand what it means to have a free press. Just like ...

Here's a story reminiscent of the ruckus caused by (the reaction to the) Danish cartoons of Muhammad back in 2005. (Some) Hindus are cr...

Hokkaido University in Japan have an advertisement in Nature (July 9th, 2009) where they invite Ph.D.s to apply for faculty positions. They...

Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie jet bombing, has been released from prison in Scotland because...

Very interesting experiment is blogged on 80beats of the Discover Magazine, To Win the Evolutionary Race, Robots Learn to Deceive . Brains ...

May I recommend the feature article of this week's eSkeptic, A Governor’s Prayer for Rain ? On Tuesday, November 13, 2007, Sonny Perdue,...

Great article in the NY Times by Nicholas Wade on why humans have become (mostly) hairless: Why Humans and Their Fur Parted Ways . He quickl...

Homo floresiensis (nicknamed "the hobbit") is the name given to a hominin species whose remains were discovered in 2004 on the is...

Campaign to win official apology for Alan Turing . Alan Turing was the greatest computer scientist ever born in Britain. He laid the fou...

There is much reason to be critical of the field of evolutionary psychology, not because it isn't obvious at some level that the human m...

How do we decide who we trust? When someone writes an article telling a mean story about someone else, how are we to know if this is the tru...

Make sure you read how Bob Dylan was taken for a homeless guy , and had to show ID before the police believed who he was.

ResearchBlogging.org is a great site for the latest research in the natural sciences. Here bloggers apply to register, and then when they b...

Unscientific America by Chris Mooney and Sheryl Kirshenbaum has been a hot topic in this realm of the blogosphere, but I haven't commen...