T he April 30 issue of Nature has a strange commentary  ("Personalized medicine: time for one-person trials," by Nicholas Schork)...

T he financial crisis was basically not predicted by our leading lights in the academic and intellectual economics community.  They had thei...

On Tuesday we blogged about the latest Hot News that resveratrol, the long-established purportedly disease-protection ingredient in red win...

I f blog posts were physical we'd have spilled a lot of ink trying to make the point that getting beyond uncertainty in most things in h...

There are some interesting recent parallels in what one may call the philosophy of science, that have to do with the issues related to deter...

The dawn of empiricism The march of modern science began, roughly speaking, in the period about 400 years ago when modern observational sci...

Now, here's a question prompted by an op/ed piece in the Sunday NYTimes : would chimps throwing darts at a dartboard predict a person...

Choosing to wear blinkers Yesterday, we suggested that even the early geneticists were well aware of the multifactorial causation of traits...

A young archaeologist gave a talk in our department last week about his excavation of rock shelters in the north east United States. He tri...

A study out of the University of Indiana, described on the BBC website today, reports that married people have better cancer survival than u...