Sandwalk
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Sunday, October 04, 2009
Ardi and Ida
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"Ardi" is the nickname of Ardipithecus ramidus , the recently described hominid fossil. "Ida" is the nickname of Darwi...
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Do Graduate Students Understand Evolution?
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The other day I was discussing how to teach evolution with one of my colleagues and the discussion turned to the presumed distinction betw...
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Denyse O'Leary Making Sense
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Like they say, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. I'm happy to report that this is one of those days when Denyse O'Leary s...
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Map That Campus Returns
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After a lengthy hiatus, the ever-popular feature on Alex Pallazzo's blog has returned. See Map That Campus XLVII . (Extra bonus points...
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Is Richard Dawkins an Accomodationist?
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Richard Dawkins was recently interviewed by Newsweek : Darwin’s Rottweiler . Here's an excerpt. Are those incompatible positions: to b...
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Jonathan Wells Is a Winner!
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This week's Egregiously stupid remark of the week by an IDiot goes to Jonathan Wells for his comment about HOX genes.
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A Julia Child Recipe
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Posting a video of Julia Child preparing a delicious dish is something you're more likely to find on other blogs. But this is a recipe...
Friday, October 02, 2009
Good Science? Bad Science Journalism?
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It was inevitable that science writers all over the world would screw up the story of Ardipithicus ramidus as reported in a series of paper...
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Creation Astronomy
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I'm sometimes accused of a bias against creationism and other forms of stupidity. So, in the interests of diversity and political corr...
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Thursday, October 01, 2009
Emma Hale Is My (Distant) Cousin
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You're probably wondering who the heck is Emma Hale? Up until a few days ago I couldn't have helped you, but now I know a great de...
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Why People Believe Weird Things
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WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE WEIRD THINGS FEATURING DR. MICHAEL SHERMER Friday, October 2, 7pm J.J.R. MacLeod Auditorium Medical Sciences Building U...
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IDiots, Epigenetics, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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What do IDiots, epigenetics, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck have in common? Nothing much, actually, but that never stopped the Intelligent Desi...
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Nobel Prize Predictions
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My colleague, Alex Palazzo, has just posted his annual list of potential Nobel Prize winners in the biological sciences [ Gaze into the cr...
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Questions for Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins
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Sometime tomorrow Richard Dawkins will be presenting the Richard Dawkins Award to Bill Maher at the Atheist Alliance International conven...
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What's on American Television?
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One of the things I see on American television is Glenn Beck. PZ Myers says that Glenn Beck is completely insane . It certainly seems that...
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Ardipithecus ramidus
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A (relatively) new hominid named Ardipithecus ramidus is described in several papers that appear in the Oct 2 issue of Science . Carl Zim...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
The College Student’s Back to School Guide to Intelligent Design Creationism
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The Evolution News website is run by the Discovery Institute in Seattle, Washington USA. In spite of the title, their goal is not to info...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Monday's Molecule #138: Winner
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The purple molecule is cyclin bound to phospho-cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2) (yellow) and kinase-associated phosphatase (KAP) (blue). T...
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You Can't Go Home Again
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This is a resurrected version of a steroid hormone receptor. It was derived from the modern glucocorticoid receptor (GR) gene by mutating va...
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Monday, September 28, 2009
Naked Adaptationism
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Most other mammals think that humans are excessively ugly. They probably see us in the same way we see naked mole rats. We (mostly) have n...
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Science Education by Press Release
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Futurity was officially launched on September 15th. As an online research magazine, Futurity highlights the latest discoveries from leadi...
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Yom Kippur
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My lunch buddy isn't here today. At first I was worried, maybe he's sick or been in a car accident? Then I realized that it's ...
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A Young Scientist in Italy
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Like John Wilkins, I too have visited Italy. Whereas John is interested in spandrels, I was more interested in the native wildlife. John i...
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An Adaptationist in Piazza San Marco
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John Wilkins of Evolving Thoughts is currently in Venice, Italy. He has just visited the Basilica San Marco (St. Mark's Basilica) accor...
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Monday's Molecule #138
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This is the earliest posting of a Monday's Molecule. It should make the contest open to a whole new category of Sandwalk readers, esp...
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Extreme Atheists Are Like Extreme Religious Fundamentalists
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Joshua Rosenau blogs at Thoughts from Kansas but don't be confused by the geography. He actually lives in California and works at the...
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Dead Fish Thinking
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One of the popular techniques in psychology these days is to analyze brain activity in an MRI machine. In a typical experiment, the subjec...
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