Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Phone this Hotline for Technical Support
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[Hat Tip: Canadian Cynic ]
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You Will Be Assimilated!
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Canada's ongoing attempt to subvert American culture has been noted by Tegumi Bopsulai, FCD (not his real name). He sends this photog...
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Happy 50th Birthday!
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50 years ago today we were treated to the continuous "beep-beep" of the first artificial Earth satellite. Sputnik ("traveli...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
The Goal of a University Education
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At the University or Toronto we're about to go through one of our regular navel-gazing exercises where the administrators ask us how t...
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This is Your Brain on Spirits
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Denyse O'Leary—Toronto's version of Bill Dembski—has written a book in collaboration with McGill researcher Mario Beauregard. It...
Nobel Laureate: Barbara McClintock
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983. "for her discovery of mobile genetic elements" Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) r...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Transposons: Part II
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There are many eukaryotic transposons that resemble the simple bacterial transposons described in Transposons: Part I . The classic examp...
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Transposons: Part I
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Transposons are segments of DNA that can move (transpose) within the genome. They are also known as mobile genetic elements, transposable ...
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Mythical PNAS Papers
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Here's part of a Harvard University Press release issued yesterday. Beyond a 'speed limit' on mutations, species risk extincti...
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Monday, October 01, 2007
Three Cheers for October's SEED Magazine
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One of my pet peeves is the misuse of the term "Central Dogma of Molecular Biology" [ Basic Concepts: The Central Dogma of Molec...
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MMP: Debunking the Myths, Chastising the Fearmongers
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The amount of misinformation being spread about the Mixed Member Proportional voting system is truly frightening. I thought the citizens o...
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Gathering of the Godless
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"Gathering of the Godless" is one of the subtitles in an ABC News story about last weekend's atheist meeting in Virginia (U...
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Superoxide Dismutase Is a Really Fast Enzyme
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PhilipJ has posted the latest "Molecule of the Month" on Biocurious [ Molecule of the Month: Superoxide Dismutase ]. The molecule...
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Do You Think Iran Will Get the Messsage?
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Here's a scary report from the New York Daily News [ Bush eyes 'surgical' strikes vs. Iran, sez mag ]. The Daily News articl...
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The Price of Atheism
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From an ABC 20/20 special on atheism in July 2007.
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