As the 2011 cricket World Cup dawdles toward the knockout stages, I’ve been mining the team sheets for any reason to believe my beloved South African Proteas can overcome their long tradition of wobbling in this tournament and finally secure…
Alex Jordan‘s massive win in the People’s Choice award at the Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania Three-Minute Thesis Competition led to a gig behind the microphone with the ABC. Alex recently recorded this wonderful audio piece on the costs of promiscuity. Listen…
A lovely segment from this week’s American 60 Minutes. He’s an amazing intellect, and an unbelievable speaker. I have to appreciate the honest candour with which he’s grappling with cancer. The world needs more folks like Hitchens, willing to question…
We welcome Linda Chui, an Honours student, and Rachel Chiswell, a 3rd year intern, to our lab. Watch this space for more on their projects.
So Natalie Portman, fresh from her Oscar triumph, is up the duff. Good for her. Yet to the shock of the American reactionary right, whose ranks grow faster than an infestation of gastro can spread through a day-care centre, the…
Here’s the latest cover design for the book. We have already received wonderful endorsements for the book from Geoffrey Miller, Baba Brinkman and David Barash, excerpts of which will appear on the cover. Here they are in full: Nature and…
Some folks were just born hot, others were made that way, often with silicone and an airbrush. So what should mortals who don’t score a perfect ten be doing on Valentines Day? Rob Brooks and Alex Jordan derive three big…
Today’s great news is that Lyndon Alex Jordan submitted his PhD thesis at approximately 2pm Friday 4 February. His thesis, entitled Social Environment and the Evolution of Male Reproductive Strategy includes emprical studies of three different fish species, and an…
Victorian naturalists, products of their stultifying and prudish age, held birds to be paragons of fidelity and wholesome family values. But the advent of modern DNA analysis showed that when bird-watchers pack up their binoculars and head home for dinner,…
A recent paper I wrote with Steve Simpson and David Raubenheimer explores how our evolved biological mechanisms that control how much we eat combine with modern economic circumstances to create the obesity crisis.