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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Can Someone Explain this Quotation?
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The latest issue of SEED magazine has a quotation from Sir Paul Nurse, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine in 2001 for ...
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Avoid Boring People
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I suspect most of you have heard about Jim Watson's provocative and politically incorrect comments as quoted in the Sunday Times last...
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Celebrating the Three Domain Hypothesis
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This press release from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) says it all. Thirty years ago this month, researchers at the ...
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Alister McGrath's Defense of Religion
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A few months ago I attended a lecture by Alister McGrath on Deluded about God? Responding to Richard Dawkins' God Delusion [ Alister Mc...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Race and Intelligence
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PZ Myers has stirred up a hornet'e nest by quoting Jim Watson's politically insensitive comments about race and IQ [ Eminent scien...
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Nobel Laureate: The Svedberg
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1926. "for his work on disperse systems" In 1926, The (Theodor) Svedberg (1884-1971) won the Nobel...
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The Compositon of Ribosomes
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The ribosome is an important part of the translation machinery. (The others are mRNA, aminoacyl-tRNAs, and translation factors). The trans...
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Monday's Molecule #47
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Today's molecule is the eukaryotic ribosome. That's not what you have to identify. What you have to name is the two subunits and e...
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Evolution in the Ashkenazi Jewish Population
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Over at Eye on DNA Hsien-Hsien Lei has given over her blog over to Jon Entine to promote his new book Abraham's Children [ Books Abo...
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Why Pigs Don't Have Wings
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Jerry Fodor publishes a critique of adaptationism in London Review of Books . The title is Why Pigs Don’t Have Wings and it's an exc...
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Mendel's Garden: Halloween Edition
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The 19th version of Mendel's Garden has just been posted on Discovering Biology in a Digital World [ Mendel’s Garden: Halloween Editi...
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Goodbye John Howard?
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According to The International Herald Tribune John Howard has called an election for November 24th [ Howard announces Australian election...
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Al Gore Wins the Nobel Peace Prize for Framing
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I'm a fan of Al Gore and I would have voted for him if I'd have been an American citizen in 2000. I'd vote for him today if I ...
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Saturday, October 13, 2007
The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology
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John Dennehy at Evilutionary Biologust has done it again. This week's citation classic is, indeed, a classic. It's the Meselson-S...
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Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea
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Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea is a wonderful book by Carl Zimmer. The cover shows a bunch of different eyes ans it's meant to conv...
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HSP90 Structure
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Hsp90 is a molecular chaperone that plays a role in the folding and assembly of other proteins. Current ideas suggest that it binds to sub...
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The Toronto Star Defends Its Editorial Policy on MMP
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The editorial page of today's Toronto Star contains a column by Kathy English, who is identified as "Public Editor." The po...
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Friday, October 12, 2007
Eugene Koonin and the
Biological Big Bang
Model of Major Transitions in Evolution
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Eugene Koonin runs a large laboratory at the National Center for Biothechnology Information (NCBI) in Bethesda, MD. (USA) [ Evolutionary G...
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Darwin Awards
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Friday's Urban Legend: MOSTLY FALSE Haver you ever received an email message like this one? It's that time again! Yes, it's th...
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