Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Alternative Medicine at the University of Toronto
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Several readers and bloggers have noted that there's an AutismOne conference being held on the University of Toronto campus in a few w...
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Friday, October 16, 2009
Jerry Coyne's View of Random Genetic Drift
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Why Evolution Is True by Jerry Coyne is one of the best popular books on evolution. If you can only buy one book this year then this is the...
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IDiots, Evolution, and False Dichotomies
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Casey Luskin is one of the DISCO defenders of Intelligent Design Creationism. He's all upset these days because their movie Darwin...
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Calling All Science Writers!
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The pathway of information flow runs from DNA to RNA to proteins. There are a bunch of fundamentally important steps in this pathway inclu...
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Joe Thornton vs Michael Behe
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A few weeks ago I blogged about an important series of papers on the evolution of the glucocorticoid receptor gene [see You Can't Go Hom...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
My Family and Other Emperors
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Here's how my family descends from Charlemagne. The last people on the list are my maternal grandparents. I think the data is accurate ...
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Are You a Descendant of Charlemagne?
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Thousands of amateur genealogists have contributed to a huge database of family relationships, including genetic analyses. What does this t...
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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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