Parents are picketing a school in Edgewater, Florida because of restrictions the school put in place to protect a child with a peanut aller...

Like many of my fellow lefties, I'm disillusioned with current US politics. In my view, we have a president who pursued an admirable, a...

Found on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal , via The Astronomist , the cleanest illustration I've seen anywhere of the Prisoner's Di...

This weekend I saw "Waiting for Superman" a documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim of Inconvenient Truth fame.  It's ostens...

One of the aims of this blog is to give the general public a sense of what we applied mathematicians and other non-laboratory scientists act...

A new paper hit the internet today. " The Evolution of Eusociality " by Martin Nowak, Corina Tarnita, and E.O. Wilson re-frames a...

Evolutionary theorist Susan Blackmore argues in the New York Times (and elsewhere ) that a new form of evolution is emerging, based on the...