Recently I have been thinking about the use of blog carnivals. Do they get read by enough people to be considered useful? Do the people who ...

Satoshi Kanazawa on why older parents are almost twice as likely to have a daughter than a son: Because both the quality of the eggs and th...

• Trying to get around to reading these new journal articles: Bacteria-Phage Antagonistic Coevolution in Soil Molecular Evolution, Mutation ...

A.C. Grayling et al. is just out with The Good Book: A Humanist Bible ( Amazon ). It's a book supposed to replace the Bible, for those ...

[I just read this fascinating story about a Muslim girl growing up in Denmark in Politiken (Danish newspaper). Here's a translation, wi...

This is fascinating. Watch the full episode . See more FRONTLINE.

This morning I heard people arguing on NPR that, yes, the killing of 12 UN officials by an Afghan mob is horrible, but must be seen int he l...

Just up at Quintessence of Dust .

Just today I hear of the fruits of the NASA big-deal research on arsenic-based lifeforms: Monkeys. In the sea. Of Arsenic. You can buy them ...

Oooh... PZ is Cuttlefish ! Now that is a surprise, for once. Even if he reveals it today of all days, he still has me convinced. That he is ...

Yep, that's right. As of today I am giving up blogging. I could tell you that doing a postdoc is both far more interesting than blogging...

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 ...