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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Sunday, August 03, 2008
The View from Siberia
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Total eclipse of the sun, in the Altai region of Siberia on Friday, August 1, 2008. [Photo Credit: SciAm.com ]
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Friday, August 01, 2008
The Night Chicago Died
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Last weekend we watched Donnie Brasco , a 1997 film with Al Pacino and Johnny Depp. The plot is based on the true story of an FBI agent, p...
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Soccer Team Wins by Scoring on Itself
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Friday's Urban Legend: TRUE This sounds so much like an urban legend that it's astonishing to learn it really happened. The story ...
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Species Diversity
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Some of you might recall my series of postings last year on the top Science questions. One of them was What Causes Species Diversity? . T...
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Darwin: The Evolution Revolution
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My how time flies. It was almost four months ago that the The Evolution Revolution opened at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) here in Toron...
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I'm Your Man
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Here's a reason why you should be my friend and invite me to all those parties that I never seem to hear about until they're over....
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
I'm so glad I took Latin
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It means I can understand Christopher Taylor at Catalogue of Organisms when he writes about The Gender of a Table . Eat your hearts out, ...
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Nobel Laureate: Joshua Lederberg
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1958. "for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the g...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Talk.origins Is Back
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The newsgroup talkorigins is back online. It's been down since last Friday but I wasn't aware of the problem until Sunday. I coul...
Ohmygod! Not that "Framing" Thing again?
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Yes, it's the old framing argument rearing its ugly head. I know, I know, we've probably said just about everything that could be sa...
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We're Really, Really Sorry
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This is an old video from This Hour Has 22 Minutes . I'm sorry to be posting it now but GrrlScientist put it up on her blog and I jus...
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Epigenetics in
New Scientist
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As a general rule, the magazine New Scientist does an acceptable job of covering the issues that I'm familiar with. Sure, from time t...
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Epigenetics Revisited
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I'm still struggling with the concept of epigenetics [see Epigenetics ]. Most of the modern definitions are so broad that they become m...
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What Breed of Liberal Are You?
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[Hat Tip: Mike Dunford (Social Justice Crusader)]
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Monday's Molecule #82
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Today's molecule isn't exactly a molecule. Your task is to figure out what's going on in the photograph. Be as specific as pos...
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