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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Some of my former students
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Some of my former students were able to come to my retirement reception yesterday: Sean Blaine (left), Anna Gagliardi, Marc Perry.
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Hot slash buns
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I love hot "cross" buns but now we buy the atheist version.
I retired after 39 years and they gave me an old used book
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... but it was a rather special book ...
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017
John Mattick still claims that most lncRNAs are functional
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Most of the human genome is transcribed at some time or another in some tissue or another. The phenomenon is now known as pervasive transcri...
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Tuesday, June 20, 2017
On the evolution of duplicated genes: subfunctionalization vs neofunctionalization
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New genes can arise by gene duplication. These events are quite common on an evolutionary time scale. In the current human population, for e...
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Monday, June 19, 2017
Austin Hughes and Neutral Theory
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Austin Hughes (1949 - 2015) died a few years ago. He was one of my favorite evolutionary biologists. Chase Nelson has written a nice summa...
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Saturday, June 17, 2017
I coulda been an astronomer
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A long time ago I used to belong to the Royal Astronomical Society (amateur astronomers) in Ottawa (Canada). That's me on the right with...
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Tuesday, June 06, 2017
June 6, 1944
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Today is anniversary of D-Day—the day British, Canadian, and American troops landed on the beaches of Normandy. 1 For baby boomers it mea...
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Stephen Meyer "predicts" there's no junk DNA
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Here's an interview with Stephen Meyer on the Evolution 2.0 website: Stephen Meyer Debates Perry Marshall – Intelligent Design vs. Evol...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017
Cafe Scientific Mississauga
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We had a great time last night discussing Can You Tell Real Science News from Fake News?
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Imagine 7
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I'll be at Imagine 7 this weekend. Are you going? Contact me if you want to get together.
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We are scientists
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You can tell we are scientists because we're all wearing lab coats. Left to right: David Isenman, Larry Moran, Marc Perry, Kim Elliso...
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Three generations of scientists
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Bottom row, left to right. Marc Perry : Bioinformatics researcher and former graduate student in my lab. Mike Ellison : Professor, Unive...
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Saturday, May 20, 2017
Denis Noble writes about junk DNA
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I have read Dance to the Tune of Life . It's a very confusing book for several reasons. Denis Noble has a very different perspective on ...
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
Jonathan Wells illustrates zombie science by revisiting junk DNA
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Jonathan Wells has written a new book (2017) called Zombie Science: More Icons of Evolution . He revisits his famous Icons of Evolution fro...
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