Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Saturday, December 08, 2007
The DNA Genealogy Scam
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CBC News has a show on television called Marketplace . It often covers scams and commercial frauds that Canadians need to be wary of. Last...
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Castor Oil
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Today's Botany Photo of the Day is Ricinus communis , or the castor bean plant. I don't think I've ever seen a photo of this ...
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The Nathaniel Abraham Affair
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Nathaniel Abraham was a post-doc in a lab working on zebrafish development. He was fired because he revealed after he was hired that he do...
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Impending Canadian Copyright Legislation Could Be Disasterous
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The Government of Canada has served notice that it intends to amend Canadian copyright law to bring it more into line with international s...
Junk DNA in the Toronto Star
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Cameron Smith is an an environmentalist who lives Gananoque, Ontario (Canada). He was written more that 500 columns for the Toronto Star....
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Friday, December 07, 2007
Spe Salvi - Saved by Hope
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Last week Pope Benedict XVI issued an encyclical titled Spe Salvi , a reference to a statment made by Paul to the Romans; "Spe Salvi ...
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Is Your Water Bottle Killing You?
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CTV News is reporting that Mountain Equipment Co-op is going to stop selling polycarbonate water bottles [ Sporting goods chain drops bisp...
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Mitt Romney and Truthiness
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I noticed the following in Mitt Romney's religion speech [ Mitt Romney's Faith In America address (as prepared for delivery) ]. Am...
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Exposed
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Skeptics Canada is launching a year-long campaign against complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The opening salvo will be fired t...
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Thursday, December 06, 2007
Irreducible Complexity
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Lately I've run across several different definitions of irreducible complexity [ Utterly Stupid Quote of the Day ]. Most people seem to...
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My Moral Foundations
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I took the Moral Foundations Questionnaire to see the basis of my morality. My score is shown in green and typical scores for liberals ar...
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Canadian Students Are #3 in Science
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The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has a Programme for International Student Assessmant (PISA) . The first ...
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The Golden Compass
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This is a clip from The Golden Compass . It's the movie the Christians are afraid of. They want you to boycott it because it promotes ...
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Tangled Bank #94
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The latest version of the Tangled Bank has been posted by Felicia Gilljam on Life before death [ Tangled Bank #94 ]. Welcome to Tangled ...
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Sandwalk Readers Are Left of Center
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The results of last month's poll show that 70% of Sandwalk readers tend to be liberals or left wingers. I suppose that's not a bi...
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