Lewontin on Darwin Celebration

Lewontin on Darwin Celebration

Richard Lewontin has a piece well worth reading in the New York Review of Books: There are, however, occasions on which there are orgies of idolatrous celebrations of the lives of famous men, when…
The Origins of the Reductionist Program

The Origins of the Reductionist Program

The Origins of the Reductionist Program "How can the events in space and time which take place within the spatialboundary of a living organism be accounted for by physics and chemistry?" Erwin…
Update from Demeter Design

Update from Demeter Design

We have just finished the second version of our environmental database. This database includes not only our own published work but hundreds of publications regarding Salmon, Habitat, Climate Change,…
The Internet, in "New Scientist"

The Internet, in "New Scientist"

New Scientist magazine has posted an eight-part article titled “Eight things you didn’t know about the internet”. As someone who knows about the Internet, I thought I’d comment on the various parts.…
As the Bug Evolves: Where is Swine Flu Headed?

As the Bug Evolves: Where is Swine Flu Headed?

  Recently I had the opportunity to ask Paul Ewald, one of the nation's leading evolutionary biologists, about a subject near and dear to his heart: the evolution of a bug, specifically swine…