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                                    Strolling with a skeptical biochemist

Monday, March 27, 2017

How to define evolution?

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Do you think this video is helpful? [see " What Is Evolution? "] Is it important to know that evolution requires genetic changes a...
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Monday, March 20, 2017

Correcting the correction of a video about evolution

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Charlie McDonnell is the author of a book called Fun Science: A Guide To Life, The Universe And Why Science Is So Awesome . He made a video...
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Wednesday, March 08, 2017

What's in Your Genome? Chapter 4: Pervasive Transcription

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I'm working (slowly) on a book called What's in Your Genome?: 90% of your genome is junk! The first chapter is an introduction to g...
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What's in Your Genome? Chapter 3: What Is a Gene?

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I'm working (slowly) on a book called What's in Your Genome?: 90% of your genome is junk! The first chapter is an introduction to g...
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Monday, March 06, 2017

What's in Your Genome? Chapter 2: The Big Picture

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I'm working (slowly) on a book called What's in Your Genome?: 90% of your genome is junk! I thought I'd post the TOC for each c...
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What's in Your Genome? Chapter 1: Introducing Genomes

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I'm working (slowly) on a book called What's in Your Genome?: 90% of your genome is junk! I thought I'd post the TOC for each c...
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Saturday, February 25, 2017

Another physicist teaches us about evolution

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Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist at the City College of New York. Like many physicists, he thinks he's smart enough to know every...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Sloppiness in translation initiation

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There are two competing worldviews in the fields of biochemistry and molecular biology. The distinction was captured a few years ago by Laur...
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Friday, February 17, 2017

Did Rosalind Franklin produce the first X-ray diffraction images of DNA?

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There's an interesting video of ten famous women scientists at Interesting S_Word : [ Top 10 Female Scientists of History ]. The image o...
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Monday, February 13, 2017

Dan Graur explains junk DNA

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If you want to be a serious participant in the debate over junk DNA then you should watch this video. Dan Graur presents the standard argume...
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Sunday, February 12, 2017

ENCODE workshop discusses function in 2015

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A reader directed me to a 2015 ENCODE workshop with online videos of all the presentations [ From Genome Function to Biomedical Insight: ENC...
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Darwin Day 2017

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Today is Darwin Day but I'm too busy with other things to write a new post in his honor. So here's a post from 2007 (slightly update...
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Saturday, February 11, 2017

What did ENCODE researchers say on Reddit?

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ENCODE researchers answered a bunch of question on Reddit a few days ago. I asked them to give their opinion on how much junk DNA is in our ...
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Thursday, February 09, 2017

NIH and UCSF ENCODE researchers are on Reddit right now!

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Check out Science AMA Series: We’re Drs. Michael Keefer and James Kobie, infectious ... . (Thanks to Paul Nelson for alerting me to the disc...
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Monday, February 06, 2017

A philosopher tells us how to think clearly about evolutionary causes ... avoid adaptationism

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I think philosophy has lost its way. The discipline gives credence to religious philosophers who write about god(s) and to other philosopher...
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