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Friday, December 28, 2007
The Second Grapevine Genome Is Published
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A second version of the grapevine genome was published at PLoS ONE last week (Velasco et al. 2007). As I began to collect information on t...
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Thursday, December 27, 2007
The Grapevine Genome
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The sequence of the grapevine genome was reported in Nature last September (Jaillon et al. 2007). The 56 authors are all members of the F...
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Bon Voyage Charles
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On this day in 1831 Charles Darwin set sail from Plymouth Sound (England) on the newly refitted brig HMS Beagle. Its mission was to explo...
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Happy Holidays from Celebrity Atheists
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia) has a gallery of 15 celebrity atheists [ Christ-miss for atheist celebs ]. My favorites are Katha...
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Pray for France!
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This is a public service announcement for all the creationists who have been visiting Sandwalk lately. France is in trouble. It needs you...
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
Oh My God!
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According to a report in the Toledo Blade a recent survey of 1005 American adults reveals the following astonishing facts [ Survey finds ...
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The Human Genetic Variation "Breakthrough"
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"Human Genetic Variation" is the scientific "breakthrough" of 2007, according to Science magazine. I have a problem w...
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Breakthrough of the Year in
Science
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For the longest time science journalists have been misusing the word "breakthrough." What they usually mean is any scientific di...
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Friday, December 21, 2007
Did You Forget Why They're Called IDiots?
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Bill Dembski and Jonathan Wells have teamed up to write a new book on Intelligent Design Creationism. By all accounts, it is no better tha...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Rome Lights the Colosseum
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From the International Herald Tribune [ Rome lights up Colosseum to celebrate UN vote on death penalty, abolition in New Jersey ]. The cit...
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Tangled Bank #95
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The latest version of the Tangled Bank has been posted by ouroboros [ Tangled Bank 95: Here I stand and can do no other ]. Welcome to th...
Nobel Laureates: Paul Boyer and John Walker
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1997. "for their elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphospha...
The Top 100 Science Blogs
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John Wilkins takes note of the fact that his blog Evolving Thoughts is #20 on the Wikio list of top 100 science blogs [ Wilko on Wikio ]....
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
What Is Intelligent Design Creationism?
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Over on Uncommon Descent there are a group of adolescents pretending to be scholars. Most of them are patting each other on the back sayi...
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How Cells Make ATP: ATP Synthase
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In our previous posting we saw how cells can make ATP from ADP + P i by substrate-level phosphorylation [ How Cells Make ATP: Substrate-L...
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How Cells Make ATP: Substrate-Level Phosphorylation
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Monday's Molecule #56 was adenosine 5′-diphosphate, or ADP. ADP is the precursor for synthesis of adenosine 5′triphosphate, or ATP. ATP...
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Bruce Alberts Is the New Editor-in-chief of
Science
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The board of directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced yesterday that Bruce Alberts will take ...
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Monday, December 17, 2007
They Also Edit Comments on Uncommon Descent - Then You're Banned!
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One of the more despicable practices of bloggers is to edit the words of people who comment on their blog. I already took notice of this p...
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See "Gordo" at the ROM
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DINOs are back at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto (Canada). The new James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs has just ...
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Monday's Molecule #56
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Most students are busy at this time of year so I'm going to give you a break today. This is a very well-known molecule. You have to na...
It's All About Giving
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Have you seen the ads on television? The stores want to convince you that the Christmas spirit is all about giving. Of course they do. And...
Sandwalk 2007
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John Lynch of Stranger Fruit started a trend last year when he posted the first sentence of the first blog of each month for the entire y...
Sharon Moalem Exposed
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The Unexamined Life is a blog written by a student in one of the Life Sciences Programs here at the University of Toronto. This student w...
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
Gene Genie #22
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This is the 22nd edition of Gene Genie and the second time it has been hosted on Sandwalk . The beautiful logo was created by Ricardo at ...
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