When I say 'artificial life', what do you think of? I think of life-like systems in computers, mainly, but at the Alife 12 conferenc...

How the hell do you get 18 thousand followers after blogging for one year? Answer: cartoonery.

On Rationally Speaking (one of the best blogs around with regards to the comments*), Julia Galef wrote a post about Newcombs paradox : You’...

If you haven't already seen it, go to Science Blogs and read all about the (piece of*) paper published in Virology Journal (Impact Fact...

In June of last year I wrote a post about a local Tennessee teacher, Jason Groppel, who organized a course on creationism. I couldn't f...

The coach of the North Korean team who lost three out of three in the world cup has been sentenced to hard labor (and expelled from the par...

In February 2009, I wrote about the authorities in New Jersey taking away Adolf HItler and his two sisters from their parents. The word in ...

The other day I wrote about a paper showing that phytoplankton are dwindling at the rate of 1% per year , and that since phytoplankton produ...

On today's eSkeptic, there's an interesting review of the newest creationist “documentary", Distorting Darwin (that's the ...

The 26th edition of the reliable, the dependable, the capital, the sublime Carnival of Evolution has come to town. Town of The Thoughtful A...

While working on the last bits of my thesis, "Genetic and Ecological Models of Adaptive Evolution", I came upon Garrett Hardin...

In our modern society men clearly have many privileges over women. See The Male Privilege Checklist at some blog , and on Pharyngula . As a...

Here's a report about research into the mechanism of the hammerhead shark's incredible sense of smell. It is said that hammerheads c...

Where do we get our morals from? That's a contentious question asked and tried answered somewhere on the web I bet almost every day. Per...

Phytoplankton is responsible for about half of the total amount of oxygen produced by all plant life. That would make a 1% yearly reduction...

People are so scared of science, man. I think a huge part of the population even in well-educated countries don't trust the scientists v...

Today, Catalonia has banned bullfighting . Culture, tradition, and great fun at the expense of the pain and death of sentient beings have lo...

I'm giving my PhD defense tomorrow, July 28th, so no time to blog. Here's a cool video of bat skulls evolving to specialize to diffe...

Image Source It's the eternal questions of correlation and causality. Is my home country of Denmark so prosperous and peaceful because i...

Oh boy! If you're thinking about landing a tenure track job or similar in ecology or evolutionary biology, here's a kicker for you. ...