As I wrote yesterday , I was graciously sent Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution I, II, and III , and now I have watched the first of t...

In April last year I wrote unfavorably about some videos I had not seen. Or, rather, I wrote to discredit Dr. Jobe Martin, trying to show t...

Martin Gardner, another famous skeptic, died a few days ago, and eSkeptic brings an interview with him by Michael Shermer from 1997. I am a...

Danish bus driver gets a real surprise on his birthday. Usually I only cry when it involves emotional situations with children or interspeci...

A Danish journalist asks three Danish believers if it's possible to be a religious homosexual . A Christian, a Muslim, and a Jew. Both t...

If you haven't heard about the success of Craig Venter's team in synthesizing a living cell, then you forgiven. Unless you a scienti...

The function of pain is to help you stay awake during boring lectures. The function of fingernails is to inflict said pain on yourself. Very...

The prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, gained many followers because his new religion allowed them to raid caravans with the blessing of A...

Seriously! Here's a serious radio host taking a serious approach to a serious problem in society: that of homosexuality. And then what h...

Fascinating story about how the dinosaurs could be so huge , have such small heads, and still have enough time to eat all they needed. They ...

But first, here's what Olivia Judson says in her column in The New York Times : Here, lots of ideas have been put forward — a sure sign ...

The big paper with Svante Pääbo's team on the Neanderthal genome and Neanderthal and human having sex has been blogged to smithereens in...

I'm a Dane, and I've often had trouble explaining what that means, beyond being born in Denmark. Who are the Danes? When I lived in ...

The big news this week in evolution is of course the sequencing of the Neanderthal genome , and the evidence that humans carry some DNA from...

Sean B. Carroll sings the praise of Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley, who has just been named one of the one hundred peop...

Times are slow here on Pleiotropy. I'm working on my thesis, which leaves little time for blogging. Except, today a post on this blog na...

I was going to procrastinate today, but I'm putting it off until tomorrow. It's very bad, but I forgive myself : The key finding was...

The 2010 May edition of our beloved Carnival of Evolution is up today on the official blog for Springer Verlag's journal, Evolution: Edu...

I'm in love. With Tim Minchin. Of Storm fame. When his previous creations left me a big fan, of the opinion that he should be POTUS, and...

In eight grade a teacher of mine highly recommended Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance . I never read it, thou...