E dgar Allan Poe was an American short story writer, a master of macabre horror--the 3 G's, one might say: Grim, Gruesome, and Ghastly. ...

S ome people feel that scientific issues should be kept separate from science politics.  But is that even possible?  The fear is often voic...

It might seem like it this week, but sex isn't the only recurring theme here on the MT. From various angles, we hit on the culture of sc...

image source Recently, Adam Blankenbicker asked me to contribute my thoughts for a post he was preparing on "believing in science...

Y'all have seen the #overlyhonestmethods thread on Twitter, no?  The hashtag tells the story -- scientists, and surely some ex-scientist...

The Mouse that Roared was a funny comedy film, decades ago, about a little Alpine principality (the Duchy of Grand Fenwick) that managed to...

We're in New York where I'm working with collaborators on a project in which we're developing  software to simulate complex gene...

Much of what human culture is all about has to do with the distribution of resources--material resources such as wealth or property, and psy...