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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Sunday, March 18, 2007
How Nerdy Am I?
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[Hat Tip: Shalini .]
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What Color Green Am I?
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You Are Emerald Green Deep and mysterious, it often seems like no one truly gets you. Inside, you are very emotional and moody - though yo...
Saturday, March 17, 2007
A New Transitional Fossil
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This is a new transitional fossil manmmal called Yanoconodon . It's from the Meozoic era (about 200 million years ago). The fossil te...
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Intelligent Design for Dummies
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Do you understand Intelligent Design? Fear not, UK comedian Robin Ince explains it in a clip from the show "Comedy Cuts" aired M...
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Stéphane Dion Does Milton
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Jennifer Smith has all the details over at Runesmith's Canadian Content [ Dion Does Milton ]. Sounds like it was a lot of fun. I hope ...
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Happy St. Patricks Day!!!
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Today's the day when the Irish—and people who want to be Irish—celebrate by doing typically Irish things; like drinking green beer, da...
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Friday, March 16, 2007
Roundup® Is Safe
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There have been dozens of studies on the possible harmful effects of Roundup®. There are many well-funded organizations and tons of lawyers ...
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Glyphosate-resistant Weeds
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Roundup® (glyphosate) has been used to control weeds since 1974 [ How Roundup® Works ]. In all those years, the number of reported cases of ...
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Wanna Speciate? Come to Canada
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A recent Science paper by Wei and Schluter (2007) asks whether speciation rates really are faster in the tropics as widely believed. They l...
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St. Patrick Banished Snakes from Ireland
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Friday's Urban Legend: FALSE Connie Barlow describes A St. Patrick's Day Parable . Ireland is a land of no snakes. It has no slith...
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things
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For the longest time we had a poster on our wall that said "War Is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living things" [ War Is Not ...
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The Web of Life
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Regular readers of Sandwalk will recall a series of articles on the death of the Three Domain Hypothesis. One of them covered the ideas of W...
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More on Cellphones in Hospitals and How Doctors Deal with Evidence
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Last Friday I mentioned a study done at the Mayo Clinic where they looked at the practice of banning cellphone use in hospitals [ Cell Pho...
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The Molecular Basis of Roundup® Resistance
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Recall that glyphosate inhibits the enzyme EPSP synthase, an enzyme that catalyzes the following reaction in the chorsimate biosynthesis pat...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Jim Watson Comments on GM Crops and Recombinant DNA Technology
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Watch this clip of Jim Watson commenting on recombinant DNA technology and its uses in making genetically modified plants [ Dr. James Wats...
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