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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Nobel Laureates: Erwin Neher and Bert Sakmann
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1991 "for their discoveries concerning the function of single ion channels in cells" E...
The McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science Goes to Brian Alters
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The Royal Society of Canada regularly presents the McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science to deserving educators. This year the ...
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Monday's Molecule #140: Winner
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The molecule is the potassium ion channel from rat brain cells. Roderick MacKinnon solved this structure and he got the Nobel Prize in 200...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The Adaptive Value of Menopause
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One of the problems with adaptationist just-so stories is that they often sound so plausible that everyone just assumes they must be true an...
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Pee Zed Myers Teaches Mr. Deity About Evolution
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Monday's Molecular #140
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Identify this molecule. Be as specific as possible. Briefly describe what it does There's a Nobel Prize indirectly connected to this m...
Happy Thanksgiving Day
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Today is Thanksgiving Day in Canada . The holiday was proclaimed by Parliament in 1957. A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for ...
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Intelligent Design Creationism
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Some people in the intelligent design community don't like it when we refer to their beliefs as "Intelligent Design Creationism.&...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
IDiot Logic
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I'll just post this without comment because I can't, for the life of me, figure out the logic [Denyse O'Leary on Uncommon Desc...
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Censorship at McGill
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I believe that universities are special places. The primary objective of the university community is to learn and investigate. That goal s...
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
Average Annual Global Temperatures and IDiots
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Here's a chart of the average annual global temperature change over the past 150 years. I don't know about you, but to me there se...
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Human Races
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A discussion about human races has broken out in the comments to The Problem of Race .... Again . One of quesitions on that thread has com...
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Friday, October 09, 2009
Shame on Norway!
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The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was announced today by Thorbjørn Jagland, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. It goes to President Barac...
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The Food Industry Depends on the Fact that Evolution Doesn't Happen!
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Nobody has ever seen life created in peanut butter. This is one of those videos where you don't know whether to laugh, or cry. [Hat Ti...
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I'm Starting an Evolution Revolution
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The University of Toronto is in the process of reorganizing its introductory biology courses. The new proposal is to offer two half course...
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Thursday, October 08, 2009
Columbine and Creationism: A Case Study
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Here's an excellent example of the fallacious argument referred to as " guilt by association ." The idea is that you develop...
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Junk DNA: A Case Study in Scientific Controversy
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I strongly support the concept of junk DNA and I reject the idea that a significant percentage more than 10% of the DNA in our genome has...
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One Nation Under God
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Here's a little quiz. What nation is being referred to here? Right. Boy, you guys are clever. This image is so disgusting on so many l...
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Boring ....
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Chris Mooney, Matt Nisbet, and Josh Rosenau got their knickers in a knot last week for thinking the Richard Dawkins had become an accommod...
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The Problem of Race .... Again
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The current politically correct view of human races is that they don't exist. Surprisingly, this view has been adopted by many scient...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Tomorrow's Weather: 40% Chance of Rain
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When you are told that there's a 40% chance of rain tomorrow, what do you think? When you see the hourly forecasts and learn that for ...
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The Ribosome and the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
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The Nobel Prize website usually does an excellent job of explaining the science behind the prizes. The STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE RIBOSOM...
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2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome" This one's not unexpected. Almost everyone knows that there shou...
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Another View of Science
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I received this email message from Arv Edgeworth. It represents a serious point of view held by a large number of people. He gave me permiss...
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