So, there is buzz about the exapted Obama poster featuring Darwin… mentioned on Pharyngula, Sandwalk, and now PT.

I would just remind you all not to forget about Darwin’s running mate.

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As you know, I have been involved in a little side project designing Darwin year stuff, with half the proceeds going to conservation charities and half to be invested in developing online evolution resources (coming soon, by the way). We’ve had some great success, and it’s been lots of fun.

I think there is [...]

New software would play any videogame ever created

From everything I have heard, Jerry Coyne’s new book Why Evolution is True is very good. I haven’t read it yet (it is on my list), but I am willing to assume that the reviews have been reliable and that he makes a superb case for the fact of evolutionary descent.

What I don’t [...]

I tend to use Facebook only occasionally, but the existence of more and more evolution-related groups there has me thinking about logging in more frequently. Here are just a few. If you use Facebook, maybe stop in and see if any are of interest to you. National Center for Science Education Evolution: Education and [...]

Some stuff to check out that is interesting…

Putting human consumption into perspective (New Scientist)

New Google Ocean Takes Google Earth Beyond the “Dirt” (National Geographic)

Why turning out brilliant scientists isn’t enough (New Scientist)

Sometimes while doing science, one is struck by something in the same way that one is affected by beautiful art.

Not that these are the most amazing images ever (they weren’t meant to be artistic, just routine work), but I enjoyed them. They’re from a project on rotifers by one of my undergraduate thesis [...]

I don’t get too concerned about things such as titles, but I have noticed that this year a more substantial number of students has been sending emails addressed to “Mr. Gregory”. I don’t know if the students this year are unaware that most professors hold a Ph.D. and therefore are “Dr.” and not “Mr.” [...]

I already posted one of these figures from reports on the platypus genome over at Genomicron 2.0 in an earlier round of What’s wrong with these figures?, but the other one of them I hadn’t noticed. For the answers, please see the post on Evolgen.

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