Befitting for a building that houses the department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Michigan State University, the floors are nam...

The future really is already here. Take a look at these awesome robots. Gull bot. Click for more information. Tennis bots. Now, a battle bet...

I don't know. I think the subject of group selection is super interesting, and I try to follow what the researchers write on the subject...

Oh heck! I just returned from two hours of Dr. Frank Turek shouting his proof for God into a microphone. I have really good hearing, so it w...

I just don't believe he was a god. In fact, I look at him as the first outspoken atheist. But there are those who hate Jesus (no, not t...

When you are out eating, please forego the admittedly exquisite selection of panda *. I have had it on numerous occasions, but once I realiz...

The thirty third Carnival of Evolution is on Genome Engineering . There is a huge number of posts this month, so dive in. I completely forgo...

Shit! I love Tim Minchin with all his funny lyrics and atheism, but I've just seen that he is almost even greater when he's totally ...

The Anthropocene has begun: Among scientists, there is now serious talk that the Holocene has ended and a new era has begun, called the Ant...

Satoshi Kanazawa arguing that the US militia should have access to nuclear warheads , or is he playing devil's advocate? Dangerous game ...

It's not every day that Richard Dawkins comes to your defense. But he just came to mine. Larry Moran is a biochemist at the University o...

I posted this video of some humans having fun poking a half deep-fried and half alive fish on Facebook the other day: Here's one that i...

Watch this. Last sentence: "Chances are decades from now, we'll look pretty much the same." "Decades from now"?!?! A...

Japan has suspended their whaling for research ™ for fear of the safety of the crew members. They haven't announced that they won't ...

It was Charles Darwin's birthday yesterday, and at MSU we of course had a big party to celebrate the day. Unfortunately, two days ago I ...

It's nice when we are somewhat certain that evolutionary trees are accurate, so it is unsettling when researchers suggest that they aren...

I missed a blog post by Satoshi Kanazawa about a month ago: Why Are Stepparents More Likely to Kill Their Children? In it, Kanazawa descri...

'Culturomics' does not exist. As far as I'm concerned, if it isn't on Wikipedia, it doesn't exist. However, it is listed...

When is the effect of a mutation neutral? A mutation (by this I mean any change to the genotype/genome of an organism) is neutral when it ...