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The Caterpillars Who Came to Dinner (and Lunch and Breakfast): An Interview with Lad Allen, Director of Metamorphosis

"Joni shed a tear as 'Billy' flew away. I have to admit that I got a little misty-eyed. I never imagined I could become emotionally attached to an insect." Read More ›

California Science Center (You Remember Them) Gets Space Shuttle Endeavor

That's the CSC which had to shell out $110,000 to settle a viewpoint-discrimination lawsuit over the Center's canceling a screening of Darwin's Dilemma. Read More ›

Corticosteroid Receptors in Vertebrates: Luck or Design?

Based on new research by Joseph Thornton and Sean Carroll and colleagues, it increasingly appears that either we are very lucky or we are intelligently designed. Read More ›

(Not) Making the Grade: An Evaluation of 22 Recent Biology Textbooks and Their Use of Selected Icons of Evolution

Unfortunately, as this review has made clear, biology textbooks have a long way to go. Parents, students and educators who seek accuracy and objectivity in evolution-education will have to continue to be a "royal pain in the fanny" of textbook publishers. Read More ›

Dante on the “Angelic Butterfly”

In the matter of this particular image, seeing humans caught in a transformative process like the one enacted by caterpillars and butterflies, Nabokov was scooped by Dante in the Divine Comedy. Read More ›

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