Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Jason Rosenhouse on Science v Religion
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Jason Rosenhouse has a lengthy posting over on EvolutionBlog. It's well worth reading. Here's a snippet ... The situation is perfec...
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Psiphon Web censorship bypass tool
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The University of Toronto announces the release of Psiphon , a software tool that bypasses internet censorship. Psiphon is a downloadable p...
National Science Teachers Association
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The original kurfluffle over the donation of "An Inconvenient Truth" DVDs to the National Teachers Association was prompted by an ...
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
The Three Domain Hypothesis (part 4)
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[ Part 1 ][ Part 2 ][ Part 3 ] Ludwig and Schleifer question the reliability of the SSU tree. They begin by comparing trees constructed from...
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Iraq: The Hidden Story
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This show was broadcast on television in the UK. The Brits are better informed than we are.
Nobel Laureates: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964. "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances&qu...
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Richard Dawkins
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This is the video clip that so many of my colleagues are excited about. They think Neil deGrasse Tyson has hit the nail on the head. They ag...
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The Legend of Zelda
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Check out the Nintendo site for cool videos documenting the history of The Legend of Zelda. Part 1 is included below. I remember when we go...
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Linux Commands
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Here's a list of the top 200 Linux commands . Some of them are very useful, especially for us old fogies. For example, I use " wh...
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Monday, November 27, 2006
Something to be Proud of?
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Gene Expression has a new icon in the sidebar. Apparently the author is proud to be an appeaser. For the record, here's what it means...
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An Inconvenient Truth
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If you haven't seen it, get yourself to a video store tomorrow. Then read the debate about whether the National Science Teachers Associa...
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Who Let Him Out on his Own?
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Depak Chopra demonstrates, once again, why we call them IDiots. PZ Myers has pointed out the foolishness in his posting on Pharyngula, &quo...
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Recording Lectures
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Every time I give a lecture there’s a bunch of recorders in front of me. Following the lecture, there’s an active trade in lecture recording...
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World AIDS Day
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The Faculty of Medicine and the University of Toronto are hosting a series of events this week in association with World AIDS Day (Friday, ...
Light a Candle
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Light a candle and Bristol-Myers Squibb will donate $1, up to a total of $100,000, to the national AIDs fund (USA). I'm usually not a...
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