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Dear Orso, I expect that, like all humans, you will think there were some things your parents could have done better in their task of raisi...

Analogies are all the rage in Philosophy of Science of late, doncha know. Griffiths and Stotz talk about them, Dennett talks about them ...

Just caught these lot at it on my front wall. The scoundrels!

My garden is being taken over by these badboys, Equisetum arvense. Known popularly as horsetails, or snake grass, they are notorious ...

Or 21 months if we count his time on the inside . I wish, I wish.....I wish I had a proper cake and not just a candle stuck in a grape! ...

Laurie Paul wrote an excellent paper , a few months back, addressing the epistemology of choosing to become a parent. The ethical question,...

So I said I was going to spend two weeks planning, before plunging back into the same torrent of reading, writing, seminars and refereeing a...

Over the easter weekend, my family and I were treated to a fantastic dinoshow.

Evolution has produced a leg-crossing array of different reproductive kit. Here are some of my favourites (see more here). Most mammal pen...

Are bacteria observable? Or are they theoretical constructs, like electrons. Who ever actually saw a bacterium?