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…
For spring break this year, we took a trip to Denver. Due to a late decision we decided to drive.…
You probably have heard of a new study that links sucralose (brand name: Splenda) to increased chance of leukemia in…
Genetically modified organisms are very widespread. The few crops (and, as of just recently one animal) that are approved in…
Young children (4-6 age range) know that some story characters are or were real (Barack Obama or Queen Victoria) and…
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…
This statement has been used to promote fringe beliefs for some time now. Most recently by a UK government official…