Do you wish you knew more about molecular biology?  If you do but find conventional textbooks a little dry then this could be just what you're looking for.... Yes, it's the Manga Guide To…

I don't doubt for an instant that there are millions of guys (including myself) out there who would go see this if it was real: h/t to Andrew Sullivan. Read the feed:

Well, it seems that someone has finally decided that with all this talk of "end-times" and the "rapture" it was important that we have a more scientific approach to determining how close we actually…

This is too funny. A website called Kill or Cure? has been compiling links to science stories in The Daily Mail (UK) and their apparent "ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those…

The past few times I've driven in New Jersey (in NJ for work, through NJ to get to fun places), I've noticed a sign that says "Restricted CMV." To me this means HLA-restricted cytomegalovirus. I…

I had occasion last week to tell the story of my high school friend Allen (name changed to protect his by now certainly stellar career). We had met again back in Evanston, before starting…

Just when you thought you've heard every discrimination story in the book, another one comes along. The most recently persecuted group? Jedi Knights. According to the story out of the UK, the "…

I recently attended the International Developmental Biological Congress in sunny Edinburgh, Scotland. Here is my diary. Day One Saturday, 8:15 AM: Arrive Edinburgh hotel, early. Wait for room in…

Knowing Josh, he probably trademarked his Second Cutest Babies EVER series (check out the most recent post here), so in hopes of pre-empting IP lawsuits I went for one notch lower on the cutest baby…

"The emission or absorption of a quantum by a nucleus bound in a crystal leads in general to an alteration of the vibrational state of the crystal lattice, which takes up the recoil momentum. On…