Thursday, June 14, 2007

Catherine Shaffer Responds to My Comments About Her WIRED Article

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  Over on the WIRED website there's a discussion about the article on junk DNA [ One Scientist's Junk Is a Creationist's Treasur...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

WIRED on Junk DNA

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Junk DNA is the DNA in your genome that has no function. Much of it accumulates mutations in a pattern that's consistent with random gen...
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University College London Restores Professor Colquhoun's Website

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  David Colquhoun has a website at University College London where he regularly debunks the claims of "medical" quacks. Recently a...
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Nobel Laureates: Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, Sir Howard Walter Florey

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  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1945. "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseas...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

How Penicillin Works to Kill Bacteria

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  Bacterial cell walls are made of peptidoglycan [ Bacteria Have Cell Walls ]. In order to form a rigid structure, the polysaccharide chains...
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Bacteria Have Cell Walls

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  Most species of bacteria have a cell wall. The rigid cell wall prevents the bacterial cell from expanding in solutions where the salt conc...
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Monday, June 11, 2007

Does Politics Influence When Scientific Papers Are Published?

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  I'm told that the American House of Representatives is considering a bill that will allow embryonic stem cell research. Matt Nisbet th...
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Monday's Molecule #30

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  Today's molecule looks complicated but it has a very simple, and well-known, name. We need the correct common name and the long syste...
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Sunday, June 10, 2007

Was Bertrand Russell an Atheist or an Agnostic?

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John Wilkins has posted an article on whether Bertrand Russell was an agnostic or an atheist [ What is an Agnostic? by Bertrand Russell ]. ...
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Saturday, June 09, 2007

The Ethics of Stem Cell Research

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  Arthur Caplan is the director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. He was written an article on the MSNBC websit...
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Friday, June 08, 2007

Still Banned From Uncommon Descent

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  Poor old DaveScott. Like GilDodgen he's very confused about the evolution of topoisomerases [ A Dynamic Fitness Landscape ]. He posted...
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Reprogramming Somatic Cells

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  There were three papers published this week that showed how to reprogram somatic cells so they could act like embryonic stem cells (Mahera...
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USA TODAY/Gallup Poll on Evolution

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  Check out the USA Today website for information on the latest poll [ USA TODAY/Gallup Poll results ]. Let's look at the result of two ...
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I Knew It: There Can Be More than One Solution to a Sudoku Puzzle!

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  A recent article by Agnes M. Herzberg and M. Ram Murty in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society confirms what many of us have k...
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A Warning to Our American Guests

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  Canadian Cynic has just alerted me to a problem that could get my American friends in big trouble when they come for my daughter's wed...
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