When the chimpanzee genome was published a couple of years ago we got a fascinating insight into how similar we are to our closest relative. But, when scientists found genes that differed only slightly between humans and chimpanzee it raised … Continue reading →

Ever tried to blog about one of those articles where you want to quote so much of it that it’s easier to just send you readers straight there? NO ONE seems to care about the upcoming attack on the World … Continue reading →

This sounds like fun. You will be given a maximum of 3 minutes in which to impress the judges. They are looking for exciting and engaging talks that can be understood by a general public adult audience. Props are allowed … Continue reading →

A couple of years ago, I set out to do an experiment very similar to this one. The scientists then put the robots in a little arena with two glowing red disks. One disk they called the food source. The … Continue reading →

Just in case anyone might have missed it, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just issued a report (“a comprehensive and rigorous picture of the global present state of knowledge of climate change”) on the causes and consequences of … Continue reading →

Excellent Doonesbury over at Slate today about the global warming controversy and the dioxin controversy and ….

There’s a nice parody of a whole class of reviews of The God Delusion over at Dawkins’s own site. Until Dawkins has trained in the shops of Paris and Milan, until he has learned to tell the difference between a … Continue reading →

I have two burning questions that I have been saving up to ask an evolutionary biologist should I happen to run into one. The first is If all the primates were to die off, from which class would the next … Continue reading →

The recent flurry of humanist literature is partly a reaction to the re-emergence of creationism as a challenge to evolution. But, in this piece, My God Problem, Natalie Angier wonders why scientists don’t worry about the more central Christian beliefs. … Continue reading →

I checked with my local semitic language speaker and together we went through all of the english words for time (during, since, yesterday, soon, later) that we could think of and found an exact correlation in maltese for each one. … Continue reading →