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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Friday, November 22, 2013
On a Friday Afternoon 50 Years Ago
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It was about 3pm and I was sitting in my geometry class at Nepean High School in Ottawa, Canada. This was my final year of high school. I li...
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
What Could Possibly Be Wrong with Putting a Cute Dog on the Cover of
Science
?
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Nothing could be wrong until you realize that Science writer editor Elizabeth ("Liz") Pennisi is behind it. That changes things ...
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Claudiu Bandea Shows Why Attacking Dan Graur Is a Very Bad Idea
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Claudiu Bandea is a frequent commenter on this blog. Whenever the subject of junk DNA comes up he reminds us that he had a theory over twent...
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Which Way Did Darwin Walk?
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For some reason the title reminds me of "What Does the Fox Say." Oh well, PZ Myers is desperately interested in knowing which way ...
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Sylvia Browne Blows Another Psychic Prediction
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I first became aware of Syvlia Brown when I saw her on Larry King Live ten years ago [ Interview with Sylvia Browne ]. As most of you know,...
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Is Baker's Yeast a Good Model for the Evolution of Multicellularity?
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R. Ford Denison has an excellent blog called This Week in Evolution . He recently posted an article about the evolution of multicellularity ...
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Textbook Publishers Respond to Texas School Board: "Up yours!"
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There are a lot of myths surrounding the influence of the Texas Board of Education on the content of biology textbooks. Most people seem to ...
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Oops! MOOCs Didn't Work Out So Good for Sebastian Thrun
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From Tressie McMillan Cottom at tressiemc [ The Audacity: Thrun Learns A Lesson and Students Pay ]. Sebastian Thrun, founder of Udacity, o...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Fred Sanger (1918-2013)
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BBC News is reporting that Fred Sanger has died [ Frederick Sanger: Double Nobel Prize winner dies at 95 ]. Sanger is one of the few people ...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
The Green Party (of Canada) vs Science
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The Green Party of Canada is led by Elizabeth May who has a seat in parliament. The Green Party (of Canada) advocates many positions that ar...
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Monday, November 18, 2013
Another Example of IDiot Reasoning
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My philosopher friend, Chris DiCarlo, and I are trying to teach our students how to think critically. We use the evolution/creation debate a...
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Monday's Molecule #223
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Last week's molecule was a Holliday junction, one of the key intermediates in recombination. It's named after Robin Holliday who ha...
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Likes Tim Hortons Coffee!
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The mayor of Toronto is an alcoholic, a drug user (cocaine), and many other things that make him unsuitable to hold any political office. Th...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Baldness Is not a Disease. It Does not Need to Be "Cured"
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A recent article in New Scientist made me annoyed. The title in the print edition is Cure for Baldness Finally Cuts It . It starts off with...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
David Evans Says, "Teach What the Vast Majority of Scientists Affirm as Settled Science"
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The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) is responsible for The Adaptation Assessment Probe that I criticized last week. It's a...
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