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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Jerry Coyne retires

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We knew this was coming but it's still a noteworthy event [ I retire today ]. I like what Jerry Coyne says about his career, so far, ...
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Stealin' All My Dreams

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Canada is in the middle of a Federal election campaign. The vote is on October 19th . Currently the Conservative Party under Stephen Harper...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

How can she go wrong?—let us count the ways ...

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There's a very good reason why the creationist website Evolution News & Views (sic) doesn't allow comments but that won't s...
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Lessons not learned from 50 years ago

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A few months ago Nature published an article on how to create a science-literate population. There's a letter in the Sept. 17th (2015) ...
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For the King gets greenlit and furry companions

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My son's new game, For The King , is doing well on Kickstarter. So far they have over 1600 backers and over $78,000 [ Kickstarter: For T...
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Monday, September 21, 2015

Emile Zuckerkandl and the 50th anniversary of the birth of molecular evolution

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Emile Zuckerkandl (1922-2013) and Linus Pauling (1901-1994) published a paper on the evolution of proteins back in 1964. The original pape...
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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Café Scientifique in Mississauga

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Some of you might recall that I gave a presentation last June on "Replaying the Tape of Life" at a Café Scientifique in Mississaug...
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Does genome size affect fitness in seed beetles?

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Many of us think that the C-Value Paradox isn't really a paradox any more. We think that the variations in genome size among different s...
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Saturday, September 19, 2015

What does this big number mean?

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There's a big number (63,000) in the windows of a biology laboratory somewhere in the world. There's also a picture of Darwin so it ...
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Thursday, September 17, 2015

For The King: Kickstarter meets its launch goal in 24 hours!!!!

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Recall that my son, Gord, and his friends Colby Young, David Lam, and Sean Hoyle [ The Dev Team ] formed IronOak Games to create "For ...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Philosophy and reality

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The figure on the right has been circulating on Facebook . It suggests that philosophers in the Philosophy of Science are perplexed about th...
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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

For The King Kickstarter Campaign Begins

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My son, Gord, and his friends Colby Young, David Lam, and Sean Hoyle [ The Dev Team ] formed IronOak Games . Their first game will be "...
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Monday, September 14, 2015

For The King: Get ready for Kickstarter

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Colby Young, Gordon Moran, David Lam, and Sean Hoyle of IronOak Games are making a game called For The King . Follow them on Facebook at...
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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Best blog post in the past year

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3 Quarks Daily is running their annual contest to pick the best blog posts in the past year. The finalists will be picked by popular vote a...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2015

Major advances in genome biology

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I recently stumbled on a paper with an intriguing title" "Sixty years of genome biology" (Doolittle et al., 2013). It celebra...
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