Tuesday, May 24, 2016

University of Toronto press release distorts conclusions of RNA paper

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My colleague, Ben Blencowe, just published a paper ... Sharma, E., Sterne-Weiler, T., O’Hanlon, D., and Blencowe, B.J. (2016) Global Mapp...
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Monday, May 16, 2016

Tim Minchin's "Storm," the animated movie, and another no-so-good Minchin cartoon

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I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. If you haven't listened to "Storm" then you are in for a treat because ...
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Monday, May 09, 2016

Research for a book

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I'm on sabbatical this term, working on a possible book whose working title is "What's in Your Genome?: 90% of your genome is j...
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John Oliver teaches us to be skeptical of scientific publications

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We all know that the purpose of education should be to teach students how to think critically. We're not doing a very good job. Take bio...
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Monday, May 02, 2016

The Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology revisits junk DNA

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The Enclyopedia of Evolutionary Biology is a four volume set of articles by leading evolutionary biologists. An online version is available...
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Thursday, April 28, 2016

Fun and games with Otangelo Grasso about photosynthesis

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Otangelo Grasso just posted another one of his screeds. This time it's on photosynthesis . All of his "essays' conform to the s...
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Monday, April 25, 2016

Theme: Genealogy

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Monday, April 11, 2016 My DNA ancestry I sent a DNA sample off to ancestry.com a few weeks ago and here are the results. Monday, Novem...
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I Think We Have the Same Eyes

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Ancestry.com (ancestry.ca) has this neat feature where they combine all their family trees into a big "One World" tree. If you kno...
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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Proponents of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) explain their logic using the Central Dogma as an example

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There's a group of biologists who think that the current version of evolutionary theory is insufficient. They want to create an extended...
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Friday, April 22, 2016

Don't call it "The Theory of Evolution"

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By now, we all know that a "theory" in science is much more than idle speculation, a point that has been made repeatedly over the ...
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Templeton gives $8 million to prove that there's more to evolution than natural selection

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The Templeton Foundation will fund a group of researchers who promote something called "The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis" (EES)...
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Monday, April 11, 2016

My DNA ancestry

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I sent a DNA sample off to ancestry.com a few weeks ago and here are the results. Ancestry has a peculiar way of identifying haplotypes. ...
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Sunday, March 27, 2016

Georgi Marinov reviews two books on junk DNA

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The December issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach has a review of two books on junk DNA. The reviewer is Georgi Marinov, a name that&...
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