Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Alternating Generations
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Check out When Ferns Don't Look Like Ferns by Christopher Taylor on Catalogue of Organisms . The concept of alternating generations i...
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Monday, September 01, 2008
Genes and Geography
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Your DNA tells you who you are related to. This has led to projects that can trace your ancestors. Your DNA can also tell you where you...
Monday's Molecule #86
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In honor of all those students who are returning to college this week's molecule is another simple one that should be familiar to ever...
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What the Heck?
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Coturnix posted a video on A Blog Around the Clock . His posting, entitled Just replace '9/11' with 'POW'... , was critica...
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Why Is Canada in Afghanistan?
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The Toronto Star asked this question a few days ago. Here's the entire article from Our Man in Afghanistan . I've chosen to accom...
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Science and Public Relations
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I have come to this conclusion: the greatest tragedy of public polity, in science and without, in the democratic nations, one that looks v...
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Barack Obama Answers Science Questions
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An organization called Science Debate 2008 has crafted 14 questions about science for the US Presidential candidates. Barack Obama has su...
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Saturday, August 30, 2008
Genomics and Darwinism!?
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The scientific research journal Genome Research is proposing to publish a special issue on "Genomics and Darwinism" to coincide...
Dealing With the Controversy
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Here's an exercise for those of you who are truly interested in teaching accurate science. Go to the recent posting by Casey Luskin on...
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Friday, August 29, 2008
Tangled Bank #112
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The latest issue of Tangled Bank has been published on Science Notes [ Tangled Bank #112 ]. Welcome, science readers, to Tangled Bank 11...
Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd at Chautauqua
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One of the many highlights of my week at Chautauqua was meeting Connie Barlow and her husband Michael Dowd. Michael is the author of Thank...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008
Useful RNAs?
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The latest issue of Nature contains a news feature by Anna Petherick [ Genetics: The production line ]. The article is mostly about a new r...
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Everyone Must Read this Paper
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Christopher Taylor writes on Catalogue of Organisms ... Nearly thirty years ago, a paper was published that almost every student of evolu...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Spencer Wells at Chautauqua
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Spencer Wells is Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society. He has impeccable credentials: Ph.D. with Richard Lewontin, an...
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Nobel Laureate: Arthur Harden
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929. "for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes" Arthur Harde...
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