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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Ten Worst Science Books
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John Horgan has upped the ante with his Ten Worst Science Books . I haven't read most of the ones on his list but I certainly agree with...
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The Three Domain Hypothesis (part 2)
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Jan Sapp sets the tone by outlining the history of bacterial classification and phylogenetic analysis. We’re mostly concerned with the fourt...
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High School Dropouts
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ABC News reports that Students Dropping Out of High School Reaches Epidemic Levels . According to the article ... A recent study by the Depa...
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Nobel Laureates: Jacques Monod
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965. "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis"...
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Mélissa Theuriau
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The voters over at digg are getting all excited about news anchor Mélissa Theuriau. I don't see why. It's just the news—old news at ...
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words
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Sometimes even two thousand. Ed, is that you? :-)
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Ed Brayton Speaks
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I'm going to respond to a number if things Ed Brayton says in "With Friends Like These" . Let me begin by saying it doesn'...
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Stop the Presses: Godless Dawkins Is Subverting Schools in the UK!!
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The Sunday Times in Great Britain reports that Godless Dawkins Challenges Schools . RICHARD DAWKINS, the Oxford University professor and cam...
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Why the US Should Spring for a New Particle Accelerator
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Harold T. Shapiro explains in SEED "Why the US Should Spring for a New Particle Accelerator" . He writes, ... The US must develop ...
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Noam Chomsky - What's All the Fuss About?
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I've long admired Canada's decision not to participate in the war on Iraq and I've been critical of the American decision to sta...
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Monday, November 20, 2006
Name This Molecule #2
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Twenty-three different amino acids can be incorporated into polypeptides by the translation machinery. They all have their own codons. The...
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Sunday, November 19, 2006
The Greatest Science Books of All-Time
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Discover magazine has published a list of The Greatest Science Books of All-Time . I have no problem with Darwin being at the top of the lis...
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Neanderthal genome FAQ
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I've hesitated to comment about the sequencing of Neanderthal DNA 'cause I haven't read the papers. Fortunately John Hawks has m...
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They Just Don't Get It
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The discussion about UCSD students being ignorant of evolution was stimulated by an article that appeared in the San Diego Union-Tribune on ...
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Will the Real IDiot Please Stand up?
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Bill Dembski writes, Larry Moran — Will the real idiot please stand up? . He says, Larry Moran has been getting some play on this blog, so I...
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