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                                    Strolling with a skeptical biochemist

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

What's In Your Genome? - The Pie Chart

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Here's my latest compilation of the composition of the human genome. It's depicted in the form of a pie chart. 1 [ UPDATED: March 2...
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Sunday, March 18, 2018

What is "dark DNA"?

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Some DNA sequencing technologies aren't very good at sequencing and assembling DNA that's rich in GC base pairs. What this means is ...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Making Sense of Genes by Kostas Kampourakis

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Kostas Kampourakis is a specialist in science education at the University of Geneva, Geneva (Switzerland). Most of his book is an argument a...
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Monday, March 12, 2018

Is evolutionary psychology a deeply flawed enterprise?

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We were discussing the field of evolutionary psychology at our local cafe scientific meeting last week. The discussion was prompted by watch...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2018

Can the Dunning-Kruger effect be reversed?

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect was first proposed in a classic 1999 paper (Kruger and Dunning, 1999). 1 People suffering from this effect show ...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Junk DNA and selfish DNA

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Selfish DNA is a term that became popular with the publication of a series of papers in Nature in 1980. The authors were referring to virus...
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Sunday, February 18, 2018

Human genome books

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Theme Genomes & Junk DNA I'm trying to read all the recent books on the human genome and anything related. There are a lot of them...
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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Test your irony meter

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The irony meter was a running joke on the newsgroup talk.origins back in the last century. Our irony meters were supposed to protect us fro...
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Monday, February 12, 2018

Scientists fight back against fake news and pseudoscience

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You probably know that climate change is real and humans are a major cause of global warming. You probably know that life has evolved and th...
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Dirty bacteria

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Did you know that the dirt in your local park is full of bacteria? Each scoop of soil contains millions of bacteria. And it's not just i...
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Happy Darwin Day 2018!

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Charles Darwin , the greatest scientist who ever lived, was born on this day in 1809 [ Darwin still spurs tributes, debates ] [ Happy Darwin...
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One philosopher's view of random genetic drift

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Random genetic drift is the process whereby some allele frequencies change in a population by chance alone. The alleles are not being fixed ...
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Saturday, February 10, 2018

We live in the age of bacteria

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I'm sad because we now have almost a whole generation of young people who know very little about Stephen Jay Gould . (He died of cancer ...
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Friday, February 09, 2018

Junior scientist snowflakes

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A recent letter in Nature draws attention to a serious (?) problem in modern society; namely, the persecution of junior scientists by older...
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Are splice variants functional or noise?

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This is a post about alternative splicing. I've avoided using that term in the title because it's very misleading. Alternative splic...
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