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"This pelican looks like a urinal.  Go home, evolution, you are drunk."  (wtfevolution.tumblr)  Urinalification is so lol. But it...

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Smart dogs & dumb people

There was a story in the NY Times Week in Review section on Sunday about intelligence in dogs. They are increasingly being used in servic...

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The rain in Spain falls mainly on the grain

We have several times in this blog pointed out the problem of too much hubris in science, the attitude that we already know everything impor...

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Selecting people

On natural selection in humans In the Rival del Garda meeting we were happy to see Luca Cavalli-Sforza for the first time in many years. Lu...

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The religion-evolution 'debate': such an egocentric waste of time!

We have tried not to get immersed in the so-called debate or controversy over evolution vs religion. But one can only bite one's tongu...

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Turing the world of science and justice

The Independent ran a story on Tuesday (Aug 18) about a petition being signed by many in Britain, to demand an apology from the British go...

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Darwin's Facebook

Facebook is the current generation's way of baring all to see. It's a kind of best-seller web service. Things are revealed on Face...

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Talking trees

A number of years ago, some wacky botanists suggested that trees might communicate with each other by releasing chemicals into the air, pres...

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