Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Monday, February 04, 2008
Protest for Improving Science Education
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John Pieret makes a very good point on his blog Thoughts in a Haystack . He points out that many American high school teachers avoid teach...
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Ann Coulter Praises Canada for Sending Toops to Vietnam
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That's right. You read the title correctly. Watch the video where she's challenged about her lack of truthiness. It's hilariou...
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Sunday, February 03, 2008
How to Think About Science
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One of my colleagues send me a link to a CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) radio series about How to Think About Science . You can d...
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Bowls: Super and Otherwise
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PZ Myers makes a silly comment ... I have heard a rumor that tomorrow there will be some strange game called the "superbowl" go...
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Blogroll: How Popular Is Your Blog?
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According to Coturnix, and others, this weekend is the annual Blogroll Amnesty Day . The idea is to update your blogroll by adding blogs t...
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Saturday, February 02, 2008
Our Groundhog Is Better than Your Groundhog!
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Wiarton Willie didn't see his shadow so Spring is coming . See the video .
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How to Describe People Who Reject Evolution
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The following sentences are taken from performance reviews that were originally published in various places. They have often been brought ...
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Friday, February 01, 2008
Bigots at Wilfrid Laurier University
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Here's the complete story from Anatoly Venovcev posted on his blog Cosmopolitan [ Campus Freethought Groups - Intolerant? ]. The logi...
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Human Ribosomal RNA Genes
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Humans 5S RNA genes are about 200 bp in size from the transcription start site to the termination site. The precursor is processed to give...
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Matches Are Made in Heaven but not on eHarmony
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John Tierney and his wife both went to the eHarmony matchmaking site and registered as single and divorced (a tiny white lie). They answe...
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Slow Poisoning of America (and Canada)
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Friday's Urban Legend: FALSE Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the salt of glutamate and glutamate is a common amino acid found in all ...
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Uncommon Descent and the Great Debate
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PZ Myers destroyed Geoffrey Simmons in a recent debate on radio [ Was that fun, or what? ]. You can hear it for yourself at [ MP3 ]. The I...
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Canada's Science Technology and Innovation Council
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In response to the dismissal of Canada's Science Advisor, the Harper government proposes to get science advice from someone other than...
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Results of Junk DNA Poll
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The poll is now closed and here are the final results (see sidebar on the left-hand side of this page). The question was "How much of...
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We Hardly Knew Ye
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Arthur Carty has been dismissed and he won't be replaced when he leaves on March 31. I'll let that shocking news sink in for a min...
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Nobel Prizes by Country
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The number of Nobel Laureates in each country is often a matter of some pride. More importantly, it is often used to bolster arguments abo...
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Intelligent Design Challenge
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Calling all IDiots! This is your big chance to put your money where your mouth is. Take the Intelligent Design Challenge! on The Panda...
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1,2,3, What're We Fightin' For?
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From The Independent (United Kingdom) [ Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights ]. Everyone who supports Ca...
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Meet My Cousin!
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Blue-eyed humans have a single, common ancestor There's quite a resemblance, don't you think?
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Pictures Worth A Thousand Words
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A few days ago Jennifer Smith over on Runesmith's Canadian Content reported that Stephan Harper has redecorated the lobbies behind th...
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Nobel Laureate: Bruce Merrifield
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1984. "for his development of methodology for chemical synthesis on a solid matrix" In 1984, Bruce ...
Sophophora
, the New Model Organism
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Meet Sophophora melanogaster . It has some major advantages as a model organism. The genome is small and there are only four chromosomes; ...
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Mike Huckabee Says "It's Just a Theory"
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This is a video from several years ago when Mike Huckabee was Governor of Arkansas. Here's the description on YouTube. A young Arkans...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Learning About Evolutionary Theory
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There seems to be a bit of a trend over on ScienceBlogs TM . First Razib decides that it's finally time to read The Structure of Evol...
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Who Accepts Evoluton?
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Half Sigma has posted an interesting article on the results of a 2006 poll about evolution. The survey asked the following question: Now,...
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Famous Psychic Nikki Predicted Heath Ledger's Death
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This is Earth-shattering news. If you go to the website of Nikki (psychic to the stars) you'll see that she predicted Heath Ledger'...
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Showing Respect
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I couldn't resist copying this cartoon from Friendly Atheist [ Lack of Respect ]. It's by Don Addis. Hemant Mehta got it from Fre...
Getting Into Graduate School
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Julianne Dalcanton is an astronomy professor at the University of Washington. She works on the evolution of galaxies which is sort of like...
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Monday, January 28, 2008
Monday's Molecule #60
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I'm a little pressed for time today 'cause my mid-term test is tomorrow. This is a molecule for all you hard-core biochemists out ...
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Quackery in Academia
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Last night was lots of fun. A bunch of us went to the Centre for Inquiry for a pre-talk reception with David Colquhoun (pronounced "C...
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