The subtitle of this post my very well turn out to be “How I Alienated My Religious Readers” but I got a little something stuck in my craw while reading up for this week’s Science Tuesday. My last job, at Oxford, was working in a lab that focused on evolutionary developmental biology. This field of […]
Science Tuesday: Breath-taking insanity
May 27th, 2008 · 31 Comments · Science
Tags:creationism·evolution·madness·Science
Great Interview Week: Scientific Serendipity in Sydney
February 28th, 2008 · 9 Comments · Australia, Interview, Science
Great Interview Week continues in a scientific vein today. In last week’s Nature, a paper coming out of Dee Carter’s lab at the University of Sydney described the discovery of a previously unknown marine species. That, in itself, is noteworthy. However, the organism they found - an unremarkable unicellular brown alga - turns out to […]
Tags:Australia·ecology·evolution·Interview·Science
Science Tuesday: Keepin’ It In the Family
February 12th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Science
“Your oldest brother was away at a home
and you didn’t meet him ’til you was nineteen years old
Old enough to know better, old enough to know better
but you took to his jaw line and long sandy hair…”
The Drive-By Truckers - “The Deeper In”
Geneticists love nothing more than a good inbred organism with which to work […]
