Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
More Little Mosque on the Prairie
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See part of an episode of Little Mosque on the Prairie. The rest are here . [Hat Tip: Alex Palazzo ]
What Would You Sequence If the Price Were Only $1000?
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Nature Genetics has a Question of the Year . The sequencing of the equivalent of an entire human genome for $1,000 has been announced as a...
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Nobel Laureates: Furchgott, Ignarro, and Murad
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1998 "for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signalling molecule in the cardiovas...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
How Viagra Works
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Mondays Molecule was sildenofil (5-[2-ethoxy-5- (4-methylpiperazin-1- ylsulfonyl) phenyl]-1- methyl-3-propyl-1,6-dihydro-7H-pyrazolo [4...
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The Best Writing on Science Blogs 2006
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Coturnix (A Blog Around the Clock) has put together an anthology of the best science writing on blogs for 2006. It's being published i...
Ethical Issues in Science
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One of the things I have to do this week is deal with the teaching of so-called "ethics" in genetics and biochemistry courses. L...
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Monday, January 15, 2007
Plastic Duckies
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On January 29, 1992 a 40-foot container fell off a ship in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Inside the container were 29,000 "Floatee...
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Astrobiology: A Null Set
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Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy recently lost out to PZ Mierz of Pharyngula in the contest for best blog. His penalty for not getting enough a...
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The Logic of Irreducible Complexity
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Ross Thomas (HALFaCANUCK) uses predicate calculus to analyze whether the following argument, the irreducibly complex nature of the eye pro...
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Alanis Morissette Doesn't Get Irony
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Guy Kawasaki interviews Jon Winokur [ Ten Questions with Jon Winokur: How to Heighten Your Sense of the Absurd ]. In response to a questio...
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Basic Concepts: The Central Dogma of Molecular Biology
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The demise of the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology is becoming an annual event. Most recently, it was killed by non-coding RNA (ncRNA) (Ma...
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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I'm going to Chapel Hill next weekend. It's one of my favorite places in the world. My daughter lives there. (Hi Jane, are you ready...
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Monday's Molecule #9
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Name this molecule. You must be specific. We need the exact chemical name and the common name. The common name will be much more familiar ...
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Sunday, January 14, 2007
Even at a conference, you've got to eat!
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Even at a conference, you've got to eat! I'm going to Mama Dip's for Bar-B-Que on Saturday night. Are you going too? Chicken...
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Safer than LSD and 'Shrooms
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Would you take this drug if it made you dream you were climbing in the Himalayas with a duck, an ape, and a turtle? Kevin Beck would. The...
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