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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Monday, November 11, 2013
Mechanisms of Evolution – Philipp Dettmer (2013)
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This is a video that's specifically designed to teach the mechanisms (plural) of evolution. It's produced by Philipp Dettmer who, as...
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They're Firing Cannons Across the Street!
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Today is November 11th and the cannons started blasting at 11am in Queen's Park just across the street from the building where my office...
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Sunday, November 10, 2013
I'm Related to a Philosopher! Edwin Proctor Robins (1872-1899)
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I'm been filing and organizing my mother's genealogical data and I came across a list of people buried in various Prince Edward Isla...
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Friday, November 08, 2013
Evolution: A Course for Educators
: Week One
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I'm taking a MOOC! It's called Evolution: A Course for Educators . The principle instructors are Joel Cracraft and David Randle of t...
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Science
Journal Blows It Again
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This week's issue of Science contains three separate papers analyzing transcription factor binding sites and chromatin modification sit...
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Thursday, November 07, 2013
Why Humanists Should Be Vegans
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I am not a humanist and I'm not a vegan. Sarah Moglia explains why I don't subscribe to either of those two beliefs. I first saw thi...
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Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913)
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Alfred Russel Wallace died 1 on this day in 1913. That's exactly one hundred years ago. Jerry Coyne has posted a guest article by An...
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Wednesday, November 06, 2013
The Adaptation Assessment Probe
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I'm taking a MOOC on evolution that's designed for educators [ Evolution: A Course for Educators ]. One of the things that was cover...
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Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Test Your Scientific Skepticism
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I once posted a series of articles on Roundup® (glyphosate) explaining how it works and how one makes Roundup®-Ready genetically modified pl...
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Stop Using the Term "Noncoding DNA:" It Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means
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Axel Visel is a member of the ENCODE Consortium. He is a Staff Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Californ...
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Sunday, November 03, 2013
The Carnival of Evolution #65: Horror Host Edition
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The latest issue of Carnival of Evolution is hosted by PZ Myers, a developmental biologist with an interest in evolution (among other thing...
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How Many Different Cell Types in an Adult Human?
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We're having a little discussion about complexity in the comments from my post of last Friday [ Vertebrate Complexity Is Explained by th...
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Friday, November 01, 2013
Vertebrate Complexity Is Explained by the Evolution of Long-Range Interactions that Regulate Transcription?
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The Deflated Ego Problem is a very serious problem in molecular biology. It refers to the fact that many molecular biologists were puzzled ...
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A "Perfect Painting" Proves that Beneficial Mutations Are Impossible and Neutral Mutations Are Impossible
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There are times when the stupidity of creationists just makes you gasp. This is one of those times. The creationist is Denyse O'Leary, w...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Time to Re-Write the Textbooks!
Nature
Publishes a New Version of the Citric Acid Cycle
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I was looking through my copy of Nature the other day trying to take seriously all the special reviews on "Transcription and Epigeneti...
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