Reading an article in Science on dolphin brains, Are Dolphins Too Smart for Captivity? , I am glad to finally see someone but myself making ...

Here's an imam in London who spoke out saying that evolution is not incompatible with the Koran, and then retracted his views because of...

These days I am writing up a paper on some metagenomics research I have been doing while at Michigan State. It is hard and takes time. For m...

Go to Politiken (scroll one page down for the movie) and see this clip of a press conference Lars von Trier gave about his new film Melanch...

New research strongly suggests that if human sexuality isn't determined before birth, then at least it happens shortly after. That is, ...

Apparently the (next) Rapture is May 21st. But what of your pets? They are not likely going with, so are they just to starve in you absence...

As also reported on Panda's Thumb , Laurent Keller's group have evolved robot behavior in a computer ( report in Science ). The robo...

Seriously, Americans. What is this infatuation you have with your founding fathers? Whenever Americans from the right of the political spect...

The thirty fifth Carnival of Evolution is up on Lab Rat .

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 ...