At the beginning of the fifth season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, we the audience are introduced to a character, Dawn, we have never seen before. Intriguingly, every character...
It was an honour to speak to a ghost. He looked quite normal and even knew how to operate a computer. Truth be told, he wasn鈥檛 a real ghost, but some people thought he was.
Somewhere, in a laboratory, there is a mini-brain growing. In fact, mini-brains are growing in many laboratories all over the world. What do they dream of? Nothing at the moment, and nothing for...
Every year, I鈥檓 an invited lecturer at the University of Ottawa to talk to future science communicators about pseudoscience. I use a number of increasingly muddied examples to show these students...
I was interviewed by many journalists in 2020 about the pandemic, and the question they kept asking me was some version of, 鈥淲hat exactly is going on here?鈥�...
Certain concepts simply irk me. They are often needlessly complicated and their meaning gets distorted in an attempt to make them understandable.
Take, for example, the idea of a Mitochondrial Eve.
