Skeptophilia

[ N.B. : This post is a little on the technical side, if you're not a biology type.  Trust me, the work is worth it, because what these ...

Back in my teaching days, I was all too aware of how hard it was to generate any kind of enthusiasm for the details of biology in a bunch of...

It's remarkably difficult to decide exactly what we mean when we say something is alive . As a biologist, this is kind of embarrassing...

Today, I ran into a story that got me thinking about how powerful a single word can be in changing the gist of a claim. An article in Onl...