The Science of Health Care

From the New Scientist.  One of the graphs he goes through compares health care spending in Miami, San Fransisco, and in the capital of my my state, Salem, OR.  It turns out Miami spends near double what Salem does on care and gets about half the quality.

Evolver Zone

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!

Altruism against Predation

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 [...]

More Science on TV?

Has TV gotten more “Sciency” since ER?  Maybe. But, I still haven’t brought myself to watch Numbers.
Not true.  I saw one episode in which the main character said at a crucial point in the show, “All we need now is a little math, and a whole lot of luck.”
I haven’t heard anyone in [...]

Joe Biden Interview

An interview with Joe Biden from 2004.  Not bad.
B: Yeah, let me make this final point. The irony of the neoconservatives’ exercise of power is, I genuinely believe, unrelated to terror, they weakened us. The very thing they anticipated has had the opposite result. They anticipated the leveraging of power would chasten North Korea, Iraq, [...]

Are Zoos Avoiding Evolution?

Dr. Evilution discusses and what teachers can do to make up for the it.
I like this idea: If you take your class on field trips to these places, design an exercise that charges your students with designing more interesting, evolution-based plaques. If you have a digital camera, you can take pictures of the existing plaques [...]