From the Royal Society Meeting, an Acid, Amusing, and On-Target Report

At the Huffington Post, journalist Suzan Mazur is amusingly acid and on target in a report from the Royal Society meeting, "New Trends in Evolutionary Biology," which sounds more stultifying the more I hear about it.

[O]ne of the opening speakers referred to himself as representing the Jurassic Age of science and pointed out that the content of the previous speaker's lecture -- which put more than the jet-lagged in the audience to sleep -- could be found in existing textbooks. He was right...