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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Press release hyperbole and the "duon" delusion
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I recently described a really bad paper published in Science by Stergachis et al. (2013). The principle investigator is John Stamatoyannopo...
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Michael Egnor offers his proof of god(s)
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Michael Egnor is a proponent of Intelligent Design Creationism. He's a neurosurgeon practicing on Long Island (New York, USA) and a fre...
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Monday, January 13, 2014
On the unpredictability of evolution and potentiation in Lenski's long-term evolution experiment
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Richard Lenski's long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) has yielded a number of interesting results over the past two decades. Back in 19...
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Monday's Molecule #228
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Last week's molecule was arachidonate, one of the key intermediates in the synthesis of complex lipids, especially protaglandins in mamm...
University Professor is one of the least stressful jobs in America?
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When I was a graduate student, there were several professors in adjacent labs who had a profound impact on me. One of them was brilliant at ...
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Sunday, January 12, 2014
Zoƫ's first chemistry experiment
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My granddaughter just turned four so it's time to learn about chemistry. Her first experiment was checking the pH of various household l...
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The Silence of the Labs
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The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) aired an episode of The Fifth Estate on Friday night. I taped it and watched it yesterday betw...
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Friday, January 10, 2014
A DNA evolution game for university students?
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Some of the articles that are published in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education (BAMBED) are a little bit difficult to understand. ...
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How not to teach biochemistry at memorize.com
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The latest issue of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education (BAMBED) has a list of "Websites of Note." One of them is Memori...
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Clergy discuss the relationship between science and religion
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The Clergy Letter Project is sponsoring the 9th annual " Evolution Weekend " on February 7-0 2014. This is a weekend where clergy ...
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Canada is destroying a generation of scientists
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My department is in a Faculty of Medicine and the main source of research funding for biomedical sciences in Canada is the Canadian Institut...
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Wednesday, January 08, 2014
Carnival of Evolution #67: Wallace Centenary Edition
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This month's Carnival of Evolution is hosted by a group of "foreigners" 1 at The Geneological World of Phylogenetic Networks...
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The "duon" delusion and why transcription factors MUST bind non-functionally to exon sequences
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This post is about a paper recently published in Science (Dec. 13, 2013) by John Stamatoyannopoulos and his collaborators at the University...
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Monday, December 30, 2013
1001 Ideas that Changed the Way We Think - "Not-junk DNA"
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Glenn Branch of NCSE alerted me to this book: 1001 Ideas the Changed the Way We Think . He wrote some of the articles [see Creationism and E...
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Friday, December 27, 2013
Mmmmmmm ..... orange chicken
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We're in Washington D.C. for a wedding. Our hotel is the Ritz-Carleton in Arlington, Virginia, right next door to the Pentagon City Mal...
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