Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Monday, August 24, 2015
The genealogy of Jesus
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I saw this at The Cloisters when I was in New York last week. It's very hard to read 1 so I'm not sure if it's accurate. Her...
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IDiots, suckers, and the octopus genome
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The genome of the small octopus, Octopus bimaculoides has recently been sequenced. The results are reported in Nature (Albertin et al., 20...
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Sunday, August 23, 2015
Comets and meteorites CAN NOT create a primordial soup in the ocean
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I want to talk about two recent press releases on the origin of life. The first one is from the BBC and it talks about the work of Haruna ...
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What am I doing on my summer vacation?
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Here's what I'm doing this summer (right) when I'm not fighting creationists , writing a book , giving talks , playing with the ...
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How do Intelligent Design Creationists deal with pseudogenes and false claims?
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Some of the people who comment here have pointed out that this is the second anniversary of a post by Jonathan McLatchie on Evolution News &...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015
The Burghers of Calais at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
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There are 13 casts of the famous sculpture by Rodin [ The Burghers of Calais ]. I've seen four of them (Paris, Washington, Los Angeles, ...
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Monday, August 17, 2015
Do Canadians "believe" in evolution?
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A recent post by some anonymous blogger named "Darwin Quixote" made the following claim [see comment in: Be Careful, Evolution is ...
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Summer Reading
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These are the books I've read, or finished reading, this summer beginning in June. This is the book that I'm re-reading ver...
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Friday, August 14, 2015
Teaching evolution in Ontario Schools
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In Ontario (Canada) there is a province-wide curriculum that all public schools must follow. This includes the Roman Catholic separate schoo...
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015
What is "PeerWise"?
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I came across an interesting article about " PeerWise ." Hardy, J., Bates, S.P., Casey, M.M., Galloway, K.D., Galloway, R.K., K...
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The value of critique in science education
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One of the most difficult concepts to get across to science educators (e.g. professors in a biochemistry department ) is the idea that stude...
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David M. Raup (1933-2015)
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David Raup died last month. He was 82 years old. Raup was a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, where he studied the big picture o...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015
More calls to extend the defunct Modern Synthesis
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Once again, a group of scientists want to extend and revise the Modern Synthesis version of evolutionary theory in order to bring their pet ...
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Four things that Francis Collins learned from sequencing the human genome
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I've been doing a bit of research on the human genome in preparation for a book. This led me to an article published in 2003 by Francis ...
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Monday, August 10, 2015
Insulators, junk DNA, and more hype and misconceptions
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The folks at Evolution News & Views (sic) can serve a very useful purpose. They are constantly scanning the scientific literature for a...
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