Sandwalk

I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is trying to explain the conflict between proponents of junk D...

I'm discussing a recent paper published by Nils Walter (Walter, 2024). He is trying to explain the conflict between proponents of junk D...

Nils Walter attempts to present the case for a functional genome by reconciling opposing viewpoints. I address his criticisms of the junk DN...

In my opinion, the war in Ukraine is much more complicated than most people realize. We are constantly bombarded with propaganda from all si...

The Microsoft browser (Edge) has a built in function called Copilot . It's an AI assistant based on ChatGPT-4. I decided to test i...

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone. Oscar Wilde Like many baby boomers, I sometimes forget people's names and other ...

Gene expression in eukaryotes is influenced by the state of chromatin. Tightly packed nucleosomes inhibit the binding of transcription facto...

Philip Ball has just published a new book "How Life Works." The subtitle is "A User’s Guide to the New Biology" and that...

I'm interested in the spread of science misinformation on the internet. The misinformation about the human genome is a good example that...

Watch this short video from Daniel Stern Cardinale. He read my book!

I was a big fan of Benjamin Lewin. Back in the 1970's he published the first volumes of what was to become Genes , the authoritative tex...

A recent post on Evolution News ( sic ) promotes a a new podcast: Casey Luskin on Junk DNA’s “Kuhnian Paradigm Shift” . You can listen to t...

I had a long chat with Kat Arney a few weeks ago and she has now taken the best parts of that conversation and put them in her latest Geneti...

The phrase "dark matter of the genome" is used by scientists who are skeptical of junk DNA so they want to convey the impression t...

That's part of the title of podcast by Kat Arney who interviews Matthew Cobb [ Double helix double crossing? What really happened betwee...