The giraffe is, quite obviously, a unique species. It was probably one of the first, just so, stories in biology.…
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I have a new favorite research topic. There is a relatively new field in sociological research on bullshit. The seminal…
The denizens of Answers in Genesis have published… something… in their vanity press “peer-reviewed journal”. Though I guess peer-reviewed is…
There were several interesting articles and images that all gave me the inspiration for this post. So, let’s talk about…
As I mentioned previously, Don McLeroy showed up at Jerry Coyne’s discussion of the book Faith vs. Fact. He passed…
Yesterday I went to the First Annual (hopefully) Lone Star College Book Festival in Houston. They put on an impressive…
Ask people to name a US volcano and you’ll get a lot of “Mount St. Helens” and “Kilauea“. The more…
You probably have heard of a new study that links sucralose (brand name: Splenda) to increased chance of leukemia in…
A friend put me on to a course in information theory by the Santa Fe Institute. It’s a good course,…
Birds are the most diverse group of vertebrate tetrapod. There are over 10,000 species ranging from the massive ostrich (Struthio…