Archive for October, 2008

Selectively choosing data may lose you a Nobel Prize

You know how sometimes you watch shows like "Entertainment Tonight" and they have something like "The Lost Episodes of 'The Brady Bunch'" or something like that? Well, discovering lost "episodes" isn't something exclusive to the entertainment world, it turns out. Today I read an interesting article about Stanley Miller and Harold Urey. You're probably [...]

Whither the platypus?

During our study of evolution, we have referred to the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) often and much, as it represents one of nature's most odd and curious animals. The platypus also happens to represent what is thought to have been one of evolution's greatest puzzles--how is it possible to have a mammal that lays eggs, [...]