Interesting questions : Are we evolving away from belief in God? Why did thousands of intelligent people let themselves be deceived by inves...

The perils of homeschooling is hotly debated in the blogoshphere at the moment (and all the time), and here is a good article to get a feel ...

A British filmmaker is looking for an evolutionary biologists in the US to appear on a TV program. Only, there are a couple of caveats: Look...

Fail speaks the truth. But seriously (no, really!), in the debate about homeschooling, some will counter that homeschooled children are grea...

I use Google Analytics for site statistics, and I have for some time suspected that not all was right with the numbers. Today I am certain....

It might have been a story of a black politician being against equal rights for people of any race, or an atheist against equal rights for t...

Via xkcd .

Somewhere in the comments to a poll about homeschooling, Linda writes Doug, If you think Creation Science is just junk or "ignorant...

Monkey and duiker DNA found in gorilla shit suggest that gorillas eat meat in the wild, too. Or that they eat ants that eat monkey and duik...

European men earn more than European women. This gap in salaries is of course widely condemned, and have promoted politicians to promote cha...

Three weeks ago I posted a graph showing the number of members of the Facebook group We can find 1,000,000 people who DO believe in Evolutio...

I'm a computational biologist, so I write code (just to keep it secret ;). Today I experienced an epiphany: I was forced to choose betwe...

The NCSE has nominated four of the most inane public creationists for their new UpChucky Awards . The nominees are Don McLeroy, Ray Comfort,...

If you ever read newspaper and magazine articles about evolution and/or creationism, you might have noticed how muddled many people's un...

The superstar edition of CoE is up on Mauka to Makai . It's got eight posts on blogs nominated for the Research Blogging Awards, plus tw...

The biggest science blog carnival, Scientia Pro Publica, is ready with a new edition at Stephen Curry's Reciprocal Space . One post, on ...

Polar bears evolved a lot recently , but this may not help them evolving out of the melting ice, because there are so specialized. Not exact...

At a life science institution where most research is related to human health, my adviser's lab is one of the few exception. We do evolut...

I was just on a webminar with Carl Zimmer and Chris Mooney, talking about their new books. Carl went first, and at the end of his presentat...

One of the most important evolutionary experiments in the laboratory, Rich Lenski's long term evolution experiment with E. coli began 2...