Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Science in an Age of Endarkenment
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The University of Toronto Secular Alliance is one of the hosts of tomorrow's talk by David Colquhoun [ University of Toronto Secular A...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Nobel Laureate: Tom Cech
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1989. "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA" In 1989, Thomas R. Cech (1947 - ) was a...
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Ribosomal RNA Genes in Eukaryotes
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The "genes" for ribosomal RNAs in eukaryotic genomes are found in separate clusters. One cluster consists of hundreds of copies ...
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Ribosomal RNA Genes in Bacteria
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Ribosomal RNA is the major component of ribosomes [ The Compositon of Ribosomes ]. This RNA, by itself, is capable of catalyzing the amino...
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Skeptical About Adaptationism
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Over on Evolution News & Views (a creationist blog) Robert Crowther writes. Every so often the Darwinists get all riled up about the ...
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100% Un-deluded
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One of my readers has designed a T-shirt for atheists. You can buy one at Zazzle .
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Atheism Is Going Out of Business
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Denyse O'Leary was on the radio this morning on some religious show from Alberta. She was asked how she deals with all the abuse she g...
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Permission Denied
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I used to be able to read Shalini's blog Scientia Natura: Evolution And Rationality but now when I try to read a posting I get ... Th...
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Out-of-Date Textbooks
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Linzel of No More Walls is a Canadian high school science teacher. The latest posting is Provincial Curricula - Always behind the Times?...
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Unconvincing Atheist Arguments
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Not a Blog has a short list of arguments against God that atheists should avoid [ Bad Atheist Responses to Christianity ]. I've liste...
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Use the LPC Code to Speed Up Mail Delivery
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This is a fascinating video. Watch it and learn. Then get yourself on over to Friendly Atheist [ Amazingly Helpful Tips ] and participate...
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Monday, January 21, 2008
Bias Against Women?
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GrrlScientist claims that women scientists publish fewer papers than men. She then goes on to offer an explanation [ Women, Science and Wr...
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Monday's Molecule #59
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This is an example of a very common molecule found in every cell. It's obviously not a chemical structure but a diagram of something e...
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ReGenesis and Scientific Literacy
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About a year ago I posted an article about ReGenesis , a TV show based on scientific investigation into fictional events such as pandemics...
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Sunday, January 20, 2008
Predictions of Intelligent Design Creationism
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Denyse O'Leary gives us nine "predictions" from the IDiots [ Nine predictions, if intelligent design is true ]. I present t...
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Gene Genie #24
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The 24th edition of Gene Genie has been posted at origins genome resources [ Gene Genie issue #24: Human genetics (Illumnia conspiracies...
Changing Minds Through Science Communication
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There are lots of things going on at the North Carolina Science Blogging Conference but the session I'd most like to have attended was...
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Eating Clones
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We eat cloned organisms every day, but they're plants (e.g., bananas). Apparently, some people have a great fear of eating cloned anim...
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The Cloning of Steve Steve
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Many of our science blogger friends are having a good time in North Carolina at the second North Carolina Science Blogging Conference. I w...
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This ranks among the most morally illicit acts, ethically speaking ...
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Researchers from Stemagen a private stem-cell research company in California, have created human clones by the same techniques used to c...
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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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