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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Monday, October 15, 2007
Evolution in the Ashkenazi Jewish Population
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Over at Eye on DNA Hsien-Hsien Lei has given over her blog over to Jon Entine to promote his new book Abraham's Children [ Books Abo...
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Why Pigs Don't Have Wings
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Jerry Fodor publishes a critique of adaptationism in London Review of Books . The title is Why Pigs Don’t Have Wings and it's an exc...
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Mendel's Garden: Halloween Edition
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The 19th version of Mendel's Garden has just been posted on Discovering Biology in a Digital World [ Mendel’s Garden: Halloween Editi...
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Goodbye John Howard?
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According to The International Herald Tribune John Howard has called an election for November 24th [ Howard announces Australian election...
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Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize for Framing
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I'm a fan of Al Gore and I would have voted for him if I'd have been an American citizen in 2000. I'd vote for him today if I ...
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Saturday, October 13, 2007
The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology
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John Dennehy at Evilutionary Biologust has done it again. This week's citation classic is, indeed, a classic. It's the Meselson-S...
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Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea
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Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea is a wonderful book by Carl Zimmer. The cover shows a bunch of different eyes ans it's meant to conv...
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HSP90 Structure
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Hsp90 is a molecular chaperone that plays a role in the folding and assembly of other proteins. Current ideas suggest that it binds to sub...
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The Toronto Star Defends Its Editorial Policy on MMP
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The editorial page of today's Toronto Star contains a column by Kathy English, who is identified as "Public Editor." The po...
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Friday, October 12, 2007
Eugene Koonin and the
Biological Big Bang
Model of Major Transitions in Evolution
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Eugene Koonin runs a large laboratory at the National Center for Biothechnology Information (NCBI) in Bethesda, MD. (USA) [ Evolutionary G...
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Darwin Awards
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Friday's Urban Legend: MOSTLY FALSE Haver you ever received an email message like this one? It's that time again! Yes, it's th...
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The Genome of
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
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This week's issue of Science (Oct. 12, 2007) contains a summary of the draft genome sequence of the green alga, Chlamydomonas reinha...
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Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial
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This is a NOVA TV show about the Dover, PA trial of 2005. It sure looks interesting and I'm looking forward to seeing it on November 1...
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Junk RNA
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There are a lot of studies suggesting that a substantial percentage of the genome is transcribed even though less than 5% is known to be fun...
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The 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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The 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Gerhard Ertl "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces." The prize is r...
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