Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Francis Collins and the Middle Ground
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Francis Collins is interviewed in Christianity Today [ Creation or Evolution? Yes!: Francis Collins issues a call to stand on the middle g...
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John Lynch Has an Opinion
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John Lynch has re-opened a debate about whether Dawkins' opinion on religion is valid [ Weinberg on expertise ]. The discussion was pr...
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James R. Drummond
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James R. Drummond is an Emeritus Professor in Residence in the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto [ James R. Drummond, Tor...
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Percy Saltzman Dies
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Percy Saltzman was one of the first television weatherman personalities. Those of us who are old enough to remember the '50's and...
Gap Penalties
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Reed A. Cartwright ( De Rerum Natura ) has just posted a summary of his recently published paper on the effect of gap costs in sequence ali...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Doomsday Clock Advances
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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved the Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight [ "Doomsday Clock" ]. I think ...
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Australians Debate "The God Delusion"
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Listen to four Australians discuss The God Delusion . The show was broadcast last October on Australia's ABC Television. I found the &...
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More Little Mosque on the Prairie
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See part of an episode of Little Mosque on the Prairie. The rest are here . [Hat Tip: Alex Palazzo ]
What Would You Sequence If the Price Were Only $1000?
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Nature Genetics has a Question of the Year . The sequencing of the equivalent of an entire human genome for $1,000 has been announced as a...
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Nobel Laureates: Furchgott, Ignarro, and Murad
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998 "for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovas...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
How Viagra Works
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Mondays Molecule was sildenofil (5-[2-ethoxy-5- (4-methylpiperazin-1- ylsulfonyl) phenyl]-1- methyl-3-propyl-1,6-dihydro-7H-pyrazolo [4...
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The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006
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Coturnix (A Blog Around the Clock) has put together an anthology of the best science writing on blogs for 2006. It's being published i...
Ethical Issues in Science
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One of the things I have to do this week is deal with the teaching of so-called "ethics" in genetics and biochemistry courses. L...
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Monday, January 15, 2007
Plastic Duckies
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On January 29, 1992 a 40-foot container fell off a ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Inside the container were 29,000 "Floatee...
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Astrobiology: A Null Set
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Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy recently lost out to PZ Mierz of Pharyngula in the contest for best blog. His penalty for not getting enough a...
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