by Dan on February 9, 2009

With it almost being Darwin Day, it seems only right to review a book on perhaps the best popularizer of evolutionary biology in the 20th Century, Stephen Jay Gould. As a paleontologist and historian of science, he taught at (read on...)

by Dan on January 22, 2009

We all know that surviving in the publish-or-perish world of academia requires that we write a lot. For myself, I view blog-writing as a form of writing practice --- I used to really suck at it. Okay, actually I still get stuck (read on...)

by greg on January 21, 2009

If you've ever wondered how molecular biology came to prominence in biomedical research, why so many famous molecular biologists of the past century were trained as physicists, or when bacteriophages were first used as cloning (read on...)

by Dan on January 9, 2009

Since last year's discovery of a way to "reprogram" skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), there may or may not be a political way out of this controversy. But there are legal reasons why a quick end to the (read on...)

by Paul on January 8, 2009

For our "fresh new" version of the website, I'll kick off with a series of articles on describing the contents of my professional "toolbox". So, let's open 'er up and see what we get. In this installment, I'll skim the top tray (read on...)

by Dan on November 18, 2008

Following up on my recent post about The Nature of Scientific Observation, I left two-thirds of Chalmers' book What is This Thing Called Science untouched, including discussions on Bayes' theorem and the New Experimentalism. I (read on...)

by Dan on October 29, 2008

Currently I'm reading Alan Chalmers' What is this thing called science?, with specific interest in the questions of expertise and the uniqueness of science as a foundation for knowledge. (Coturnix's recent post on Information, (read on...)

by Dan on October 9, 2008

I just came across a very interesting book relating to biotechnology, but sadly it's not due out until next year. By Janine Benyus and Gunter Pauli, Nature's 100 Best: World-Changing Innovations Inspired By Nature, this book (read on...)

by Dan on September 17, 2008

After some of the blog posts that I've written on animal rights' extremists and violence against animal researchers, there's now a review of a most appropriate book on the topic available in Science - Scientists Under (read on...)

by Dan on September 15, 2008

For something a bit more on the fun side, at least if you enjoy a pint of beer now and then - a genomic-based study has reconstructed the origins by hybridization of the lager yeast Saccharomyces pastorianus, published in the (read on...)