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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Lunch with a winner
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Cody Cobb was the winner of Monday's Molecule #129 . He lives in New Jersey where he is about to start graduate school at Rutgers. If ...
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The New Seven Wonders of Nature
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There are 28 finalists in the running for the New 7 Wonders of Nature. You can see the list here . Guess who didn't make the cut? Niag...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Direction and Purpose in Evolution
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If you put two people together who believe that natural selection is the only important mechanism of evolution and that humans are the onl...
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Monday's Molecule #130: Winner?
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The "molecule" is Rous Sarcoma Virus or RSV. It's a retrovirus , specifically an alpharetrovirus . Other types of retrovirus...
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What Is Accommodationism?
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Are you uninterested in the debate about accommodationism but secretly want to know what it's all about? Here's a brief summary th...
Questioning the Tree of Life
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I'm going to Halifax NS (Canada) next week to attend a very exciting conference with a catchy title: Questioning the Tree of life . Th...
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Monday, July 20, 2009
Nobel Laureates: J. Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989 "for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes" J. Michael B...
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The Collapse of the "Dawkins Dogma"
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Fern Elsdon-Baker has written an article for New Scientist entitled Comment: The Dawkins dogma . It begins with a description of the self...
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Can Factual Information Change People's Minds?
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Can factual information change people's minds? Most people assume the answer is "yes." After all, if people believe somethin...
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Monday's Molecule #130
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I thought last week's molecule would be a challenge but Sandwalk readers came up with the correct answer even in the middle of summer...
Sunday, July 19, 2009
The Origin of Dachshunds
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A draft sequence of the dog ( Canis lupus familiaris ) genome has been available for several years. One of the reasons for working with do...
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Pascal's Wager
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Believe it or not, there are otherwise intelligent people out there who actually take Pascal's Wager seriously. Here's what happe...
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Are all Scientists on the Same Team?
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I want to be like Janet D. Stemwedel when I grow up. She has an amazing ability to think clearly and it's combined with an equally ama...
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Web Site Story
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I have a confession to make. I've always been a fan of West Side Story. I never saw the Broadway production but I saw the movie and ...
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
Sometimes Violence Is Excusable
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Here's Buzz Aldrin reacting to being called a coward and a liar. This is one of those times when I can't blame someone for throwin...
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Neutral pH
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I'm working on the next edition of my textbook. From time to time I'm going to use you (readers) as guinea pigs to try out some ne...
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Monday's Molecule #129: Winner
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The molecule is the Src protein tyrosine kinase from chicken ( Gallus gallus ). The scr gene is a proto-oncogene, meaning that is the nor...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum in Newsweek
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Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum have published an article in Newsweek [ Defenders of the Faith: Scientists who blast religion are hur...
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The Calling
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I'm deeply suspicious of people who think they're doing God's will. But I'm positively frightened by people who believe th...
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Rationalism vs Superstition: More than just Evolution vs Creationism
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The Texas Board of Education is doing all of us a great favor by showing that the real fight isn't just evolution vs creationism or sc...
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Andrew Coyne on Conservative Values
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We don't really have a (small "c") conservative party in Canada. The closest thing we have is the (large "C") Conser...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Bastille Day
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Today is the FĂȘte Nationale in France known also as "le quatorze juillet" or Bastille Day . This is the day in 1789 when French ...
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Monday's Molecule #129
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Today's molecule is very famous so you aren't going to get any hints other than the fact it's from the species Gallus gallus Y...
Timmy's Takes Manhattan
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Tim Hortons is opening 13 stores in Manhattan and several more in Brooklyn. The first nine stores started serving coffee and donuts yest...
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Sequencing Koreans
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There are several complete 1 sequences of human genomes. The standard reference sequence is the one published at NCBI as a result of the ...
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