Chris Mooney discusses his book, “Unscientific America” with Carl Zimmer on Bloggingheads.tv about the massive scientific illiteracy in the US.
In the above pic it looks like Presidents Obama and Sarkozy are checking out a good-looking girl. However, if you watch this video, here, it turns out Obama’s eyes were elsewhere. Sarkozy’s were on target.
In this round, Sarkozy wins. He knew a good thing when he saw it.
But, in more important G8 news, Sarkozy warns [...]
T. Ryan Gregory, of Genomicron, has put together a killer rescourse on Evolutionary theory for educators, students, and interested people. It’s called Evolver Zone. Right on!
Micheal White sets the record straight about what the platypus genome is and what it isn’t.
Is the platypus part bird, part reptile part mammal, an amalgam of very different groups of animals? Is it a primitive mammal that resembles the early ancestors of all mammals? Can we figure out just what this creature is by [...]
This is a review of a recent article, cooperation in Defense against a predator, in the Journal of Theoretical Biology by Jozsef Garay of the Research Group of Theoretical Biology and Ecology of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Here’s the abstract:
The origin and the evolutionary stability of cooperation between unrelated individuals is one of the key [...]
John Hawks reviews an article in the NY times, by Gina Kolata, on Grants for Cancer Research. Here’s an excerpt from the original article:
Yet the fight against cancer is going slower than most had hoped, with only small changes in the death rate in the almost 40 years since it began.
One major impediment, scientists agree, [...]
So, the new Darwin movie, Creation, staring Jeniffer Connelly and her husband Paul Bettany looks ridiculous: Darwin is writing a book that is going to “Kill God!” and be the most “Explosive book of all time!” (Apparently the book is filled with some kind of Metaphysical TNT.) But, I don’t mean that in a bad [...]
I got a funny chain email today:
If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would have $49.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would have $33.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you [...]
My fiance is about to go back to school to get her masters in education so that she can become a middle school mathematics teacher. She’s fairly confident that she’ll want to teach in the Portland public education system, but private schools have their draws.
Here, the Professor lists a number of benifits of teaching at [...]
Not as strange as it sounds. Here’s a blog by a teacher, a Libertarian, and a Buddhist, all of which is reflected in his blog.
Readers of this blog know that I’m not shy about my Libertarian tendencies. But, what they might not know is that I was a practicing Buddhist for many years, also. So, [...]
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