Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Ethical Issues in Science
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One of the things I have to do this week is deal with the teaching of so-called "ethics" in genetics and biochemistry courses. L...
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Monday, January 15, 2007
Plastic Duckies
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On January 29, 1992 a 40-foot container fell off a ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Inside the container were 29,000 "Floatee...
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Astrobiology: A Null Set
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Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy recently lost out to PZ Mierz of Pharyngula in the contest for best blog. His penalty for not getting enough a...
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The Logic of Irreducible Complexity
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Ross Thomas (HALFaCANUCK) uses predicate calculus to analyze whether the following argument, the irreducibly complex nature of the eye pro...
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Alanis Morissette Doesn't Get Irony
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Guy Kawasaki interviews Jon Winokur [ Ten Questions with Jon Winokur: How to Heighten Your Sense of the Absurd ]. In response to a questio...
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Basic Concepts: The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
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The demise of the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology is becoming an annual event. Most recently, it was killed by non-coding RNA (ncRNA) (Ma...
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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I'm going to Chapel Hill next weekend. It's one of my favorite places in the world. My daughter lives there. (Hi Jane, are you ready...
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Monday's Molecule #9
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Name this molecule. You must be specific. We need the exact chemical name and the common name. The common name will be much more familiar ...
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
Even at a conference, you've got to eat!
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Even at a conference, you've got to eat! I'm going to Mama Dip's for Bar-B-Que on Saturday night. Are you going too? Chicken...
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Safer than LSD and 'Shrooms
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Would you take this drug if it made you dream you were climbing in the Himalayas with a duck, an ape, and a turtle? Kevin Beck would. The...
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There's Some Kinda Test Going ON
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The BBC reports that South Africa close in on victory . Here's an excerpt from the article, Nazir was dropped by Pollock before the br...
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A Professor's Worst Nighmare
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Has this ever happened to you? Read what happens when a Professor doesn't look in the mirror after putting on his pants [ A classic pr...
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Time-shifting "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"
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Freakonomics reports that my favorite TV show, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip , is the show that people are most likely to record and watch...
Massacre in Canada
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The results of the latest grant competition in Canada are leaking out and the news is bad. Canadian health science research is being gutte...
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Birth-and-Death Evolution in Mammalian Gene Families
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Once we recognize the accidental nature of evolution as described in birth-and-death evolution of gene families [ The Evolution of Gene Fami...
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Saturday, January 13, 2007
Can Anyone Answer This Question?
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Check out the new look of Uncommon Descent , the blog by Dembski, O'Leary, and friends. It almost looks as though someone intelligent ...
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The Evolution of Gene Families
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The genes for olfactory receptors are part of a gene family. A gene family, by definition, means that there's two or more related genes...
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Evolution and Religion According to John West
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John West, one of the leading IDiots at the Discovery Institute, continues his defense of religion (his version) with A Further Response t...
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Basic Terms and Concepts
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Coturnix over at Blog Around the Clock has proposed an explanation of Basic Terms and Concepts . This seems to be an idea hatched by the S...
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What Is Evolution?
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Most non-scientists seem to be quite confused about precise definitions of biological evolution. Part of the confusion is because the word &...
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Friday, January 12, 2007
My Library Card
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Everybody else is doing it. Here's my library card. Make your own at Catalog Card Generator .
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Canadian Scientists Show that Speaking Two Languages Protects You from Dementia
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Biology News Net reports that a Canadian study shows bilingualism has protective effect in delaying onset of dementia by four years . It...
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Little Mosque on the Prairie
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There's a new sitcom on Canadian television called "Little Mosque on the Prairie." The first show aired on Wednesday and it&...
Does Disbelieving Evolution Reflect a Lack of Understanding of It?
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Bill Dembski is troubled by the latest report in Science that shows a correlation between acceptance of evolution and education. [See PZ M...
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Barack Obama Is a Closet Muslim
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Friday's Urban Legend: FALSE There's an email circulating that Barack Obama was educated as a Muslim in a Wahabbi school in Indon...
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
Stem Cell Debate in the USA
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Furriners like me sometimes have a hard time following American politics. Take the debate over funding stem cell research, for example. Am...
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Human
Races
Populations
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I get pretty sick of hearing that there's no such thing as "races" in the species Homo sapiens . RPM has revived the controv...
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We Really Are Quite Small
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Olfactory Receptor Genes
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The human genome contains 388 different olfactory receptor (OR) genes. These genes encode olfactory receptors, the molecules that detect o...
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Cut and Run
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" Cut and run " is straight talk for a military strategy otherwise known as "strategic redeployment" or "tactical...
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Happy Sir John A. Macdonald Day!
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Sir John A. Macdonald became the very first Prime Minister of Canada on July 1, 1867. He is one of the Fathers of Confederation . (There ...
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
SBC - NC'07
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I'm going to the 2007 North Carolina Science Blogging Conference . Are you?
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Nobel Laureates: Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2004. "for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory sys...
Oh My God!
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This is a photograph taken by Zarna, one of my students who just came back from a trip to India.
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The Difference Between Rationalism and Superstition
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Bill Dembski's Comments About Comments . I don’t plan on policing or editing comments. If you post a comment that I don’t think is pro...
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Darwin's Grave
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Mike Dunford visited Westminster Abbey today and stood at the place where Charles Darwin is buried. He wonders what an agnostic should do ...
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A Sense of Smell: Olfactory Receptors
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The sense of smell in vertebrates is mediated by proteins called olfactory receptors (OR). In the case of mammals, these proteins are embe...
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