Found on this website, “Ten Questions to Ask Your Biology Teacher About Evolution” is meant to be a handy guide for students skeptical of evolution. According to this article at The New York Times, science teachers in the US are increasingly having to deal with similar anti-evolution ploys. Reading through the list gave [...]

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I recently read this article on organic foods over at quackwatch.org. Following the article, the author had posted a reader protest complaining how it was unfair to lump organic farmers/foodies in with other “quacks”. The reader asks:
Honestly, is it so nutty to think we would be better off eating food that ISN’T full of [...]

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Why do we drive like jerks, and behave like assholes on the internet?
Some of the more seemingly sophisticated arguments for God (or some type of higher power) revolve around the mysterious nature of human morality. Dismissing evolutionary explanations for morality, some people believe that we simply cannot explain traits like altruism through the evolution [...]

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In my recent article about Consumer Reports, I mentioned that there was no evidence to support the hypothesis that organically grown foods are any safer, tastier, or more nutritious than are their non-organically grown counterparts. Accepting this premise, you might say that it is still a legitimate choice to purchase organic food to support [...]

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Do you like science, wildlife, and Africa? If so, this site is for you! WildCam Africa is a web cam set up near a watering hole in Botswana. It streams live video to the National Geographic website for your viewing pleasure. This unbelievably simple idea can yield some pretty cool footage, [...]

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I have a problem with this article from over at dailygalaxy.com. It’s not a problem with the content of the article, which is actually quite interesting, but rather with the headline:
Is Aging an Accident of Evolution? Stanford Scientists Say “Yes”
I understand what is meant by the headline, but the fact remains that there are [...]

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While we here in Canada celebrate Canada Day today, there’s yet another reason for jubilation!  One hundred and fifty years ago today, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace first read the theory of Evolution by Natural Selection to London’s Linnean Society, establishing a new paradigm in both the fields of biology and medicine and bringing [...]

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This is truly beautiful. A little more than thirty years after introducing a mere 10 Italian Wall Lizards to an isolated island off the coast of Croatia, scientists discover a new generation populated by roughly 5000 lizards. Even more astounding, the species has evolved considerably, a feat usually requiring millions of years [...]

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Sir David King, the Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government, has had enough. So much so, in fact, that he’s laid a verbal smack-down against virtually everyone within his line of sight. The issue? Hysteria.
King argues that the nonsense spewed out by a hysterical media has overridden science in the UK (though [...]

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