M y composer friend wants to be quite modern about creating beautiful music.  He doesn't like to use computer programs for composing but...

I t has long been a secret-- not! --that American football is not compatible with having any brains left to do college work.  Now there is y...

I n the sad way that science has become ever more bourgeois, Nature , itself now largely a checkout- counter mag, has a feature editoria l o...

A couple of decades ago, several of us, led by Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Marc Feldman, Ken Kidd, and several others (including yours truly), got...

How the Gene got its Family Reported by Ken Weiss, Penn State University NOTE:   The following “Just So” story was found in the posthu...

I n my previous post , I bemoaned the fate of laboratory animals, in my own experience mice, who suffer all sorts of manipulations, typicall...

A nimal research is purportedly protected by university and broader review and approval criteria.  The relevant IACUC (Institutional Animal ...