The Atheist Alliance International 2009 Conference is a couple of days away, and, for me, only a couple of miles away. Lots of great intere...

From an NYT article on artificial life: Later artificial life researchers created programs to take advantage of the growing power of comput...

Christie Lynn, at Observations of a Nerd, has an excellent post about Lionfish , which are wrecking havoc on Caribbean coral reefs. The grea...

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Carnival of Evolution is only three days away, and it's going to be HUGE. I know none of you can wait, and that you all have a hard time...

If there is even the slightest risk that you are ever going to chair a session at a conference, please (please!) do read these Ten Simple Ru...

On NCSE's website there are three new reviews of three books on evolution and creationism: Kenneth Miller's Only a Theory , reviewe...

Flatfish support Darwin's evolutionary theory, research claims An examination of fossil flatfish revealed that the eyes moved gradually ...

If you're serious about learning about transitional fossils, then Daniel Prothero's, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matt...

"Within 25 years we will be able to do an Olympic sprint for 15 minutes without taking a breath, or go scuba-diving for four hours with...

In the US, we are expecting H1N1 (“Swine Flu") vaccines to be available this fall. In the Skeptic magazine Harriet Hall, MD, exposes a ...

Big dicks preferred Get this: the researchers cut the genitalia of the mosquitofish males and found that among males of large body-size, fe...

When I first started learning Japanese, I was confused why rats and mice are referred to by the same name, nesumi . It is possible to qual...

They changed the beginning of the Quaternary ! And here I thought the eras, periods, and epochs were written in stone. In June 2009, the Exe...

Tom Rees has an interesting post about the effect of religiosity on fertility, Why do atheists have fewer children? Here's my comment t...

The Greatest Dying - A fate worse than global warming. Jerry Coyne and Hopi Hoekstra explain in The New Republic how the current mass extin...

Kanye West likes Beyonce's website better. Gotta try it .

October 1st important events in history: 1050 years ago , Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England (959). 820 years ago , Gerard de R...

I finally submitted my manuscript to PLoS Computational Biology. Woot! Can't quite believe the rigidity of the submission process, thoug...

Listen to it right here . Then take the poll below and vote 'Way to go!' The audio was recorded just before Obama went on camera to ...