Andrew Sullivan is blogging up a storm about the ‘elections’ in Iran. He sends this along from an Iranian here: I finally got through and spoke with my family in Tehran. My cousin, who studies at the University, had the following report: “Life has come to a halt. There were at least 2-3M in the… Continue reading

My favorite actor is now a knight of the British Empire. And about time, too. The bias has always been for stage actors only.Congratulations to Sir Christopher.

In what is sure to be considered good news by people who like to mix the wrong cocktails with spicy foods on Friday nights, gastroenterologists have come up with a nifty new tool to help more effectively diagnose chronic heartburn. The key to the technology is a tiny microscope at the tip of an endoscope… Continue reading

Larry Moran with a good post about what many scientists still get wrong about natural selection: Most people think that beneficial alleles will always become fixed in a population. That’s one of the most important misconceptions about natural selection and it’s a shame that it was left out of the article. This misconception is behind… Continue reading

Book NotesOkay, I should’ve done this a couple of years ago, but better late than never…