Joe Torre is a class act, and the Yankees are going to miss him. After the Red Sox shocked the Yankees by rallying from a 3-0 series deficit to snare the 2004 A.L.C.S., Torre called Wakefield in Boston’s clubhouse. Since Wakefield had given up Aaron Boone’s game-winning homer in Game 7 of the 2003 A.L.C.S.,… Continue reading

It was nice to see my book back on the shelves at Border’s this week. With the take-over of Avalon Publishing by Perseus Books, and the shut down of both Thunder’s Mouth (under which imprint my book was published) and Carroll & Graf, the warehouses were merged and a new distributor took over for both… Continue reading

Can you win the Nobel Prize for science…and still be a moron? Sadly, yes.

Steve Matheson has a great post today on How to Evolve a New Protein in (about) 8 easy steps, worth quoting in detail: How, exactly, does a protein acquire a new function during evolution? This is one of those “big questions” in evolutionary biology. Broad concepts such as gene duplication are quite helpful in formulating… Continue reading

Sam Harris gets a clue that monomaniacal monotony is not the best way to win converts. Needless to say, the older geezers of ‘New’ Atheism…don’t.