Remember Evolutionary Psychology? The theory?
It’s over.

Randall Hyde’s book is now out in it’s second edition.

Microcosm

Observing the Moon
As noted in Wired, this looks like a really cool book.
For anyone with an inclination towards amateur astronomy, and a few dollars to spend, this book reads like a geeks’ dream. It’s not light, but it has detailed, clear instructions and explanations covering everything from digital camera’s CCD chips to finding […]

The Gimp is an OpenSource graphics processing program. It runs on Windows, Macs and LInux. I can attest to the fact that it runs flawlessly on Windows and Linux. I have not seen it run on a Mac.
The Gimp ((GNU Image Manipulation Program) is comparable to Photoshop yet designed with […]

But with certain annoying traits. Actually, he’s sort of agnostic about his atheism.
John …
…Humphrys, with the journalist’s instinctive distrust of the dogmatic, now proudly joins their doubting ranks with a new book “In God We Doubt: Confessions of a Failed Atheist.”
“Unless you are on the fairly extreme wing of either religion or […]

Fins into Limbs: Evolution, Development, and Transformation by Brian K. Hall, Ed., University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2007. 459 pp.
Reptile and mammal limbs and bird wings are all modifications of the original tetrapod limb that, in turn, arose from the fins of earlier fish. That original transition was complex with some parts […]

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”Everyone needs to understand the basic facts of evolution as well as the essentials of the scientific method… When people are deprived of a scientific approach to reality as a whole, they are robbed of both a full appreciation of the beauty and richness of the natural world and the means to understand the dynamics […]

Chris Mooney’s Storm World, which I have been advertising gratis on the left side bar of my blog for some time, is now out and available for purchace. It tells “the story of the scientists who study hurricanes and how they’ve fallen into conflict over the global warming issue–especially following Katrina.”
This is a topic […]

A book note from Panda’s Thumb:
Mike Morwood, one of the discoverers of the hobbit, …[has]… just coauthored a new book, The Discovery of the Hobbit, available in Australia. It has now been published in hardcover in the USA in May 2007 under the title A New Human. A must-read for anyone wanting to know more […]

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, is a southern-tier county famous for Mennonite and Amish sects, better than average slave owners, important stops on the underground railway, and now in the news, Manheim Township, where school board members have forced the removal of key books from the ninth-grade English curriculum, owing to parents’ complaints about sexual references.
The books […]

A while ago I wrote a very positive review of Ardea Skybreak’s “The Science of Evolution/The Myth of Creationism.”
I’ve recently learned that this must-read book has been named as one of three Finalists for the 2007 Benjamin Franklin Awards in the Science/Environment category. The awards are given by PMA, the Independent Publishers […]

Deborah Halber, News Office Correspondent
April 11, 2007
The public persona of the Atom is mild-mannered physics professor Ray Palmer, who fashioned a lens that enabled him to shrink any object to any degree he wished. The lens’s secret ingredient is a chunk of a white dwarf star, and a 1960s version of the Atom comic book […]

Daniel at Get Busy Livin’ or Get Busy Bloggin’ has an interesting post on the Establishment Clause, pointing to two legal analyses of it’s “True Meaning.”
Concerns … and interesting facts … about ecological problems related to the Niger River at Life Cycle Analysis:
The Niger River is a source of water […]

There is another new book on creationism: Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism This is different from Skybreak’s recent book in some important ways (so I’d recommend both, most likely) and I have not read this new book yet. But since it’s by Andrew Petto and Laurie Godfrey (editors) it is probably […]