Month: November 2014
No Writ of Habeas Corpus for Orangutans
"She is being treated as a prisoner and has to suffer the presence of the public staring at her."
From a 2011 Paper on Bacterial Flagella, Little Comfort for Darwinists
An email correspondent pointed out a paper to me, "Structural diversity of bacterial flagellar motors," published by the European Molecular Biology Organization.
"A Few Years Ago, We Couldn’t Have Filled a Kombi": The Brazilian Intelligent Design Adventure
A couple of days ago, I returned from the inaugural congress of the Sociedade Brasileira do Design Inteligente.
For Overcoming Students’ Intuitions of Design, The American Biology Teacher Suggests Employing Evo-Devo
I just finished reading an article by Kostas Kampourakis and Alessandro Minelli, “Evolution Makes More Sense in the Light of Development.”
Remembering Arthur Balfour, Friend of Science and Friendly Opponent to Atheist Bertrand Russell
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the start of World War I — and this past week provided a terrible reminder that conflicts stirred by the war remain with us.