"Disease" is a big word. I'd like to address this question by focusing on the difference, or lack of difference, between a poison, a disease, and a yummy thing to eat. It turns out that they may all be the same. Yet different....
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Posted on February 12, 2008 9:41 AM • 1 Comments •
Last night, the Campus Atheists, Skeptics and Humanists club (C.A.S.H.) presented a debate between PZ Myers and Loyal Rue on the question: Can religion and science co-exist? I witnessed this event and would like to tell you what happened....
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Posted on February 8, 2008 10:51 AM • 42 Comments •
There is a new paper, just coming out in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that explores the idea that humans have undergone an increased rate of evolution over the last several tens of thousands of years....
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Posted on December 10, 2007 5:00 PM • 32 Comments •
All of the following stories have one thing in common: They relate to the Nature-Nurture issue....
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Posted on November 15, 2007 6:52 PM • 0 Comments •