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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Time to Re-Write the Textbooks!
Nature
Publishes a New Version of the Citric Acid Cycle
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I was looking through my copy of Nature the other day trying to take seriously all the special reviews on "Transcription and Epigeneti...
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I Just Signed Up for an Evolution MOOC!
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I'm not a big fan of MOOCs but I just couldn't resist a course called "Evolution: A Course for Educators" . The instructor...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013
The Khan Academy and AAMC Teach Evolution in Preparation for the MCAT
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Ross Firestone is a 2nd year MD/PhD student at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is one of the winners of the MCAT Video Competiti...
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The Khan Academy and AAMC Teach the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology in Preparation for the MCAT
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Here's a presentation by Tracy Kovach, a 3rd year medical student at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Sandwalk readers wi...
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The Khan Academy and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Team Up to Teach Evolution and Biochemistry for the New MCAT
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Theme Better Biochemistry Students have to write an exam called the MCAT in order to get into American Medical Schools (Canadians students...
Teachers Have to Know Their Subject
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. The top three criteria for good teaching are: (1) accuracy, (2) accuracy, and (3) accurac...
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Submitting to Carnival of Evolution
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PZ Myers is hosting the next Carnival of Evolution [ Guess who’s hosting the Carnival of Evolution? ]. I tried submitting an article but I w...
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Monday, October 28, 2013
Michael Egnor Keeps Digging
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When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. Will Rogers I favor teaching biochemistry from an evolutionary perspective and I was please...
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Monday's Molecule #221
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Last week's molecule was 2-oxo-4-hydroxy-4-carboxy-5-ureidoimidazoline (OHCU). It is an intermediate in the degradation pathway from uri...
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Trace Dominguez of Discovery News Says 98% of Your Genome Is Junk
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Theme Genomes & Junk DNA I happened to stumble on this video where Trace Dominguez ( @trace501 ) promotes the idea of junk DNA based on...
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Saturday, October 26, 2013
How to Turn a Simple Paper into a Scientific Breakthrough: Mention Junk DNA
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Attanasio et al. (2013) published a paper in Science where they identified several thousand possible enhancers that were active in the faci...
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Friday, October 25, 2013
Oops!
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This is the view from the window just outside my office on the fifth floor.
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
ASBMB Core Concepts in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Matter and Energy Transformation
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Theme Better Biochemistry Tansey et al. (2013) have described the five core concepts in biochemistry and molecular biology. These are the ...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
How Do the IDiots Explain the Origin of Life?
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We don't know how life on Earth originated. We're not completely ignorant because we have a good idea of basic biochemistry and we k...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Peter Hess of NCSE Tells Us About How to Make Evolution Compatible with Christianity
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Minda Berbeco once taught evolution and she was surprised that her students wanted to talk about religion. She decided to consult with Peter...
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