Stuart Pivar has his own lab in New York, Synthetic Life Lab, and he has recently published his first peer-reviewed article in The Internat...

The newest edition of Scientia Pro Publica - the science blog carnival for the people - are up. One of the posts is about a paper with a n...

The upcoming edition of Carnival of Evolution will be hosted by myself on Carnival of Evolution . With this 28th edition I am planning to in...

Can you imagine what would happen in the creationist community if creationists could get their papers published in a scientific journal with...

Another great evolutionary biologist, George Williams, died recently. Carl Zimmer quotes himself from a 2004 interview: One reason that the...

A recent article by Jane Mayer in the New Yorker is making some splash. It describes the political influence of the Koch brothers, owners o...

It's that time of the month, again. A new edition of Carnival of Evolution has just been posted at 360 Degree Skeptic. Andrew Bernadin ...

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa has before written provocative and interesting commentaries on what it means to be human. Now he ...

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...