The Nature of Science

  Today is the Ides of March a famous day in European history because of Brutus, Cassius and a bunch of other Roman dudes. Did you ever wond...

The United States has just honored two biochemists, an evolutionary biologist, and some other scientist by issuing stamps to commemorate the...

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  John Lennon died on Dec. 8, 1980 when he was shot four times in the back by Mark David Chapman. His ashes were scattered by Yoko Ono in C...

  Last night we watched the first two episodes of The Pillars of the Earth . They were fantastic. The story takes place in England during th...

  On the drive back from Reims to Brussels we stopped for dinner in Bouillon . We had a wonderful meal in a restaurant on the bank of the ri...

  When we were in Europe, we took a trip to Reims in Northeastern France. It's a 2.5 hour drive from Brussels where we were visiting my...

  I'm in Lyon for the evolution meeting and this was our day to see the city. We haven't been here for over 30 years. I love Europea...

  PZ Myers posted this video of Cynthia Dunbar reciting a prayer to open a meeting of the Texas IDiots state board of education [ Another r...

  Yesterday we took Zoë on her first major outing. We visited the site of the battle of Waterloo. Here's a photo of Jane, Michael, and Z...

  Let me say, right at the start, that I really don't care whether Charles Darwin was a deist, an agnostic, an atheist, or something els...

  Twenty-nine men died on November 10, 1975 when the S.S. Edmund Fitgerald sank in a storm on Lake Superior.

  Here's a clip from the movie The Devil Among Us: America's First Witch Hunt . It's about the first witches who were executed i...

  Roger Knapp was born about 1618 in England and came to New England in the early 1640s. He eventually settled in Fairfield in the colony of...