Tuesday, October 23, 2007

No Intelligence Allowed

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  Ben Stein is the star of a new film that's about to be released. It's called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed and it's suppo...
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Why Five Fingers?

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Josh Rosenau is settling into his new job at the National Center for Science Education (NCSE). Part of his mission is to educate us in the...
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Monday, October 22, 2007

Monday's Molecule #48

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  Today's molecule is several molecules and a reaction. You have to identify all the molecules in the reaction and name the common enzy...
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Gene Genie #18

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  The 18th edition of Gene Genie has just been published on Eye on DNA [ Gene Genie #18 with the PG Tips Chimp ].
Saturday, October 20, 2007

Is There a Genetic Component to "Intelligence"?

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  This is not my field and, quite frankly, I don't really care about any differences or similarities in intelligence between different h...
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Friday, October 19, 2007

The It's Its There Their They're Quiz

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  You Scored an A You got 10/10 questions correct. It's pretty obvious that you don't make basic grammatical errors. If anything, yo...
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I knew There Had to Be a Good Reason!

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  (for avoiding tofu) Eating soya could slash men's sperm count . Men who eat just half a serving of soya a day have drastically fewer s...
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Maher Arar Appears (Remotely) Before US Congressional Committee

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  In September 2002 Maher Arar was detained at New York's JFK Airport on the grounds that he was a suspected terrorist. At the time Mahe...
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The Watson Affair

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  This Watson dust-up is going to get very interesting. First we have all those people who were quick to condemn Jim Watson as a low-life ra...
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Email Message Warns about Canadian Health Care

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  Friday's Urban Legend: MOSTLY FALSE The email message begins with, This was sent from Canada to a friend in the States. I saw on the ...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

More Restricted Access to Journal Articles

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  The press release from the Dept. of Energy Joint Genome Institute (USA) sounds really cool [ Massive reanalysis of genome data solves case...
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Does the Universe Have a Purpose?

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  There's a two page ad in last week's issue of NewScientist . It's paid for by the Templeton Foundation and the ad consists of ...
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Can Someone Explain this Quotation?

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  The latest issue of SEED magazine has a quotation from Sir Paul Nurse, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine in 2001 for ...
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Avoid Boring People

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  I suspect most of you have heard about Jim Watson's provocative and politically incorrect comments as quoted in the Sunday Times last...
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Celebrating the Three Domain Hypothesis

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  This press release from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) says it all. Thirty years ago this month, researchers at the ...
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