Newton's Binomium

I've found a nice follow-up to Dan Graur's latest post . The anthropologist Pascal Boyer has been investigating the wonders of cra...

After a long break where I dealt mostly with my primary duties (research, writing papers, teaching, presenting at conferences, ...) and got ...

Derek Atkins (apparently my only reader these days) has forced me out of blog inaction by a series of comments to an old piece on Sanford...

PZ Myers has just written an excellent essay on the evolution of complexity . He makes several interesting points with which I agree. For ...

PZ Myers has just taken the time to reminisce over Paul Nelson's three year long silence on his curious concept of "ontogenetic de...

I first came across PZ Myers' posts when I was teaching Evolution of Development in the Fall of 2004. I forget which posts caught my e...

The Science Cafe on Tuesday was a lot of fun. I got stumped a couple of times -- strangely enough I'm not an expert on penguin homosexu...

Sex: Why Bother? Evolution Mysteries One of the greatest mysteries of biology is why humans need a sexual act to reproduce while some organi...

Bora Zivkovic, of A Blog Around the Clock , has put together an anthology of the best science blog writing (ever). It has a great name: The...

Go ahead, link to this post and do your bit for the new science of memetics. [Via Pharyngula ]