Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Friday, March 07, 2008
Science, Religion, and Framing
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There was a conference on framing at the AAAS meeting last month [ How Matt Nisbet Conned AAAS ]. When the meeting was first being organiz...
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Name This Building
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How many of you can identify this Parisian building? I know I couldn't before I came across it two weeks ago.
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Michael Egnor Is an IDiot
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Michael Egnor rises to the defense of Jonathan Wells. Readers may recall that Wells made a really stupid claim that studying antibiotic re...
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John Doesn't Like Richard
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John Wilkins went to hear Richard Dawkins last night in Pheonix, Arizona. I'll leave it to you readers to figure out why John and Rich...
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Do You Trust Homeopathic Medicine?
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tkindoll at Skeptchick analyzes an international poll were respondents were asked whether they trust homeopathic medicne [ Hot Off the Pr...
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Vaccines Don't Cause Autism
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David Kirby is one of the most prominent proponents of the claim that autism is really mercury poisoning and it's caused by childhood ...
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Thursday, March 06, 2008
Hybrid Plants Colonize New Environments
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Today's Botany Photo of the Day shows Helianthus anomalus , a hybrid species of sunflower that grows in the sand dunes of Utah. This s...
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To My American Friends
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Be careful. here's a great deal at stake here. The world can't afford another eight years of the Bush doctrine.
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Lunch with the Winners
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I just got back from lunch with the winners of the Monday Molecule/Nobel Laureate quiz. The two winners were Alex Ling and Dave Schuller. ...
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Tangled Bank #100
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The latest issue of Tangled Bank is #100. It's hosted at AECHAEOPORN [ Tangled Bank #100, Bad Flu Edition ]. PZ Myers, in his link t...
The Humanist Globe
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I just found a new website called the The Humanist Globe . It was created by Mark Robinson who I met at the opening of the Centre for Inqu...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008
The α Helix
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Monday's molecule #63 is an α helix. This conformation of amino acids was first discovered by Linus Pauling who received the Nobel Pr...
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Nobel Laureate: Linus Pauling
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954. "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of t...
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Defining Evolution
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PZ Myers has started a thread on the definition of evolution [ An exercise for the readers ]. Here is PZ's choice ... Evolution is a w...
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THE SECULAR CONSCIENCE: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life
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The Centre for Inquiry Ontario is sponsoring a talk by Austin Dacey (photo below) on Friday night March 7th at the Beverley St. location ...
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