Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Happy Birthday Sandwalk!
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Today is the first anniversary of this blog. My first posting on November 4, 2006 was Welcome to My Sandwalk . Since then there have been ...
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Saturday, November 03, 2007
You Gotta See This ...
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Jason Rosenhouse says you gotta see this . I agree. It's how I feel every time I try and use Adobe Photoshop.
The Peace Tower Clock Does Not Fall Back Tonight
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Canada likes to think of itself as a progressive country—always moving forward. But this seems to be going to extremes. The clock on the P...
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You poor Amercans ....
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I love the wit and humor of Canadian Cynic . From time to time he comes up with some very funny lines. Today is one of those times [ Sudd...
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Dawkins on Watson
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There's a lengthy article on the Guardian website about the Watson affair [ Disgrace: How a giant of science was brought low ]. It co...
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Berlinski Quotes
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In the comments section of Breaking News... Mathematicians Don't Believe in Evolution! , glennd points us to An Interview with David B...
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Friday, November 02, 2007
Chalk Up One for the Intelligent Design Creationists
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Jason Rosenhouse has been following an exchange between Micheal Behe and Theistic Evolutionist Creationist Ken Miller [ In Which I Agree W...
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Best Science Blog
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There are ten candidates in the voting for Best Science Blog—part of the 2007weblogawards . I'm familiar with two of them; Pharyngula ...
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Breaking News... Mathematicians Don't Believe in Evolution!
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This jerk is David Berlinski a mathematician and a Fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. He's not a ...
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Thursday, November 01, 2007
Denyse O'Leary's Advice to Students
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Denyse O'Leary is teaching a short course on intelligent design creationism [ Denyse O'Leary's University Course on Intelligen...
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Is Race a Biological Concept?
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I suppose it was inevitable. The latest issue of New Scientist has the obligatory article denying that intelligence can be defined and de...
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What's Your Image?
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PZ Myers is bored in San Diego so he came up with another meme for bloggers. This time we're supposed to Goggle for the first image t...
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Can You Smell Isovaleric Acid?
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Isovaleric acid [ 3-Methylbutanoic acid ] smells like sweat. It is responsible for some of the odor in a locker room, for example. Althoug...
Theme: A Sense of Smell
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The detection of odor is a complex signal transduction pathway that begins with the binding of an odor molecule (ligand) to an olfactory r...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Nobel Laureate: Arthur Kornberg
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1959. "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic aci...
DNA Polymerase I and the Synthesis of Okazaki Fragments
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Slightly modified from Horton et al. (2006) ... During DNA replication, a molecular machine called a replisome forms at the replication fo...
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Polyphosphate
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Monday's Molecule was polyphosphate [ Monday's Molecule #49 ]. Polyphosphate is a string of phosphate groups joined together by ph...
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Wealth and Religiosity
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One of the most interesting results from the PEW Global Attitudes Survey is the correlation between wealth and belief in God. As a genera...
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Do You Have to Believe in God to Be Moral?
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From the [ PEW Global Attitudes Survey ]. Is Faith Necessary for Morality? Throughout most of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, there is ...
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What Scientific Instrument Enhances the Quality of Life for People Around the World?
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Eva, one of our own graduate students, asks this question on her blog easternblot [ Quality of Life ]. It's a multiple choice questio...
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong if Everybody Has a Gun?
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The title of this article is a rip-off of Canadian Cynic [ I mean, what could possibly go wrong? ]. That article, in turn, is a response...
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Diversity and the Major Histocompatibility Complex
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A number of authors have applied this test [for homozygosity] to protein polymorphism data. In most cases, either no selection or purifyin...
DriPs and the Inefficiency of Translation
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There's been a lot of talk recently about junk DNA and the possibility that large parts of it may, after all, have a function. Some of...
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Monday, October 29, 2007
Teach the Controversy
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The latest issue of the McGill Journal of Education is devoted to the Evolution/Creationism debate. There are several interesting article...
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Another Dr. Moran!!!
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From UNC PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY WEEKLY CALENDAR : Monday, October 29 12:20 p.,m. Room 258, Phillips Hall (UNC-CH) Ph.D. Defense Jane Moran ...
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