The 2011 Miss USA "scholarship" pageant was held last night in Las Vegas. Out of the 51 contestants, only two of them said that they believed in evolution. Out of…
PZ Myers passes along some observations from a museum curator who visited the Creation Museum in Kentucky and wrote about it in a peer-reviewed journal.
Read this statement: The measure from Republican state Rep. Bill Zedler would block higher education institutions from discriminating against or penalizing teachers or students based on their research into intelligent…
The December issue Scientific American is out and it covers some world changing ideas among many other issues. As one leafs through the issue, a reader could easily skip From…
Finally a politician communicates about the benefits of addressing climate change in innovation and technology. Surprisingly, it's a Republican who's doing this.
In Part 2 of our interview with Chris Coons, Unstable Isotope asks Mr. Coons to talk about how he will use his background in science to inform his decisions in the Senate.
The Obama Administration has set a new course for US Space policy that embraces arms control. Actually the arms control policy is an old course favored by Reagan, Bush I and Clinton, but not Bush II (is anyone surprised?). President Obama's team will look to international cooperation instead of the "Go it alone" attitude favored by Bush and Cheney.
Science writer Chris Mooney (Unscientific America and The Republican War on Science) has a recent column in The Washington Post about how scientists need to approach the general populous in…
Whenever I've had a little too much "fun" (and ended up paying for it) my brother would always say, "hair of the dog." Looks like he had a point. Scientists…
This is not a political post, rather it is an anti-political post regarding zoology and how it relates to human beings. In this morning's New York Times Magazine, Can Animals…