Nothing ever really changes, or so goes the old French saying 'plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.' The more things chan...

It’s the last day of the semester. Students are submitting their final exams to me today and it’s only fitting that I submit my final thou...

American epidemiology follows our puritanical culture, and intensely focuses on how harmful anything fun must be for you. Coffee, tea, alco...

Well, folks, here's another installment for the law of unintended consequences, or the life's not as simple as you wish it were logb...

A piece in the Sunday New York Times by Amy Harmon, "'Informed consent' and the ethics of DNA research", discusses the i...

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You’ve probably already forgotten about A. sediba . After all, it’s been just over two weeks since the two new gorgeous partial skele...