If you're following the ongoing discussion Tim Sandefur and I are having on whether or not the federal government should fund science at all, there's a new article you should really go read. Stanford Professor Steve Quake has a guest column up at Olivia Judson's blog that talks about the way we currently fund science and makes some suggestions about how things can be improved.
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Olivia Judson (aka, Dr. Tatiana) has a blog at the NYTimes website.
A bit o' squabble has broken out about hopeful monsters.
Olivia Judson has a lovely article about ongoing examples of evolution.
This is my reply to a post by Coturnix called The Hopeless Monster? Not so fast!
First, the phylogeny of the discussion.