Years and years:  but who's counting? Breaking news!  As reported by the BBC ("Retirement Harmful to Health"): "...the ...

Is the nature/nurture question finally solved? Are we who we are as a consequence of luck?  A paper in Science, Freund et al., "Emergen...

Angelina Jolie's New York Times editorial on her decision to have bilateral mastectomies when she tested positive for BRCA1 mutations a...

By his own admission, this is not only the first blog post Jim Wood has ever written, it's also the first one he's ever read. We...

Well, when it comes to causation of biological effects, you never know.  Now, the latest off the Big News ticker is that dogs are hot when i...

Last week there was a lively discussion here on MT of the problem of sexual harassment that occurs in the field, where anthropologists do th...

New research lauding the benefits of sunlight, and not because of vitamin D, brings up a general question about reductive research.  The wor...