Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Teaching IDiots About Evolution
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The National Academies (Science, Engineering, Medicine) (USA) have just published their latest book on the evolution/creationism controver...
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Friday, January 18, 2008
Map That Campus XLII
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This is one of my favorite challenges in the blogosphere. Can you identify the campus on The Daily Transcript ?
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Backwards Bush Countdown Clock
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Trust me, it's not just Americans who are counting the days.
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Science in an Age of Endarkment
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Be sure to come to this special event sponsored by the Centre for Inquiry, Toronto . The talk will be given in the auditorium just beside ...
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Soybean Genome
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A preliminary draft of the soybean ( Glycine max ) genome has been released on the Phytozome website [ Glycine max Genome ]. The reported...
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Brampton Prude
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Brampton is a city west of Toronto and north of Mississauga, where I live. Heart Lake United Church is trying to attract customers so they...
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Bobby Fischer
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Bobby Fischer died yesterday in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he had been living for the past several years [ Bobby Fischer, 64: Former chess ...
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Why I Like Richard Dawkins
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Richard Dawkins doesn't pull punches and he doesn't beat around the bush. You always know where he stands on any given issue. This...
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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Gerty Cori Biochemist on USA Stamp
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Biochemist Gerty Cori is going to be on a new USA stamp to be issued in March. Cori and her husband won the Nobel Prize in 1947 for their wo...
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A Junk DNA Quiz
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Take the junk DNA quiz in the left sidebar to let me know what you think of your genome. How much of it could be removed without affectin...
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The Plausibility of Life
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The Plausibility of Life is an evo-devo book by Mark Kirschner and John Gerhart. I read it a long time ago and had pretty much put it out o...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Nobel Laureate: Sidney Altman
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989. "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA" In 1989, Sidney Altman (1939 - ) was aw...
Transfer RNA Processing: RNase P
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RNase P is one of the key enzymes in the processing of tRNA primary transcripts [ Transfer RNA: Synthesis ]. RNase P is a ribozyme. Most o...
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Transfer RNA: Synthesis
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Transfer RNA's are produced by transcribing a tRNA gene to produce a single-stranded tRNA precursor molecule. tRNA genes are just one ...
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Transfer RNA: Structure
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Transfer RNA (tRNA) is an essential component of the protein synthesis reaction. There are at least twenty different kinds of tRNA in the ...
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First Rule of Holes
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Greg Laden has responded to criticism of his views on junk DNA [ Moran, Gregory, Give me a Break! ]. In the comments to Greg's post, S...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Greg Laden Gets Suckered by John Mattick
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Oh dear. Greg Laden reviews a paper from John Mattick's group and he falls for the hype, hook line and sinker. Here's what Greg sa...
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Humans Have Only 20,500 Protein-Encoding Genes
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The first drafts of the human genome indicated about 30,000 genes, a number that was very much in line with many predictions that had been m...
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
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The digital object identifier, or DOI , is a unique identifier that's given to electronic documents. The idea is that it serves as a p...
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Best Canadian Sci/Tech Blog 2007
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Nominations have closed and the voting has begun for the best Sci/Tech blog in Canada. Here's the ballot . The nominees are .... The W...
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Monday, January 14, 2008
What Is this Dog Thinking?
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If you think you know what's going on in the mind of this dog, get over to Friendly Atheist and enter the contest [ Friendly Atheist ...
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Insurance Against Alien Abductions
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According to some studies, up to four million Americans may have been abducted by aliens [ Abduction by Aliens or Sleep Paralysis? ]. I of...
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Convocation 2007
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A few months ago I told you about my first convocation as a Professor [ Bruce Alberts in Toronto ]. Here's the formal photograph of th...
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Monday's Molecule #58
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This is one example of a very common molecule found in every cell. You have to give us the common name of this molecule and identify the s...
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Creation Science Papers
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Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy must have had a great deal of free time on his hands now that the asteroids have missed us and the galaxy isn...
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Scientific Illiteracy About Death
Rates
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Here's part of an article on ScienceDaily about death rates in New York City [ New York City Death Rate Reaches Historic Low ]. The d...
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
Scientific Mistakes
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During a recent discussion with undergraduates, they mentioned that it would be a good idea to discuss the more recent scientific papers i...
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How Much Junk in the Human Genome?
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Ryan Gregory has another contribution to this question that's well worth a read [ Is most of the human genome functional? ]. Among oth...
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Graduate Students Need to Publish Papers
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In my field it takes five, or even six, years to complete a Ph.D. program. This time could be significantly reduced if there wasn't pr...
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Test Your God Logic
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Here's a quiz you can try to see if your positions on atheism and religion are consistent [ Battleground God ]. Be careful, this quiz ...
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Vegetarian Humor
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Today after class we were having a wide-ranging discussion about all kinds of issues when one of my students announced that she was a vega...
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Electoral Compass
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I'm a sucker for these things but take them with a huge grain of salt because I'm not an American. Some of the questions were very...
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Stop the Presses! Denyse O'Leary Says Something Thruthful!
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You'd better sit down before I tell you this. Over on Uncommon Descent Denyse O'Leary has just posted an article complaining abou...
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What's Going On Here ?
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Go to easternblot to find out. The photos were taken in the 2nd year introductory Cell and Molecular Biology course at the University of...
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Drinking Cold Water Causes Cancer
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Friday's Urban Legend: FALSE This one was sent to me a few days ago. This is a very good article. Not only about the warm water afte...
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