Loom

Over the weekend I was part of a panel at the American Anthropology Association, the topic of which was “Updating…

Last5 week, Edge.org published Jaron Lanier’s Digital Maoism piece, warning of the dangers of new collectivism, and singling out Wikipedia…

Are brain parasites altering the personalities of three billion people? The question emerged a few years ago, and…

As the proud owner of a fine cat, Tino, I’m happy to join the ritual of cat-blogging. I was…

Judge Rules Against ‘Intelligent Design’ Initial reaction: what a relief. Once I have a chance to read the…

I’ve been asked to review a couple books about global warming. Climate change and evolution, which I mainly…

Natural selection is not natural perfection. Time and again, biologists have discovered traits that are both beneficial and…

Back in February I discovered the remarkable work of Australian biologist Bryan Grieg Fry, who has been tracing the…

This story starts in 1987, with the skin of a frog. Michael Zasloff, a scientist then at NIH,…

Last October the world marveled at the announcement of the discovery of a new species of hominid, Homo…

My brother Ben is now a respectable consultant for the Oxford English Dictionary, but when he was a kid, he…

Clint, the chimpanzee in this picture, died several months ago at a relatively young age of 24. But part of…

This article in the New York Times is a pretty useful overview of the political and financial support behind the…

Mole rats are a pretty ugly, obscure bunch of creatures. They live underground in Africa, where they use…

It’s bad enough to see basic scientific misinformation about evolution getting tossed around these days. USA Today apparently…