Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Friday, March 30, 2007
Animal Chauvinism
›
There's much to criticize in the field of evolutionary developmental biology or evo-devo. Some of the "theories" are little ...
23 comments:
University Classes Doubled in Size when Grade 13 Was Abolished in Ontario
›
Friday's Urban Legend: FALSE Back in the 20th century Ontario had a unique education system where students spent an extra year in high s...
5 comments:
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Blogging with Bush
›
This is cool. President George Bush reads blogs and he even quotes them in his speeches. These bloggers were from Iraq. They say America i...
2 comments:
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Evolution of Mammals
›
A paper in this week's issue of Nature presents a nice summary of recent work on mammalian evolution. Bininda-Emonds et al. (2007) ha...
17 comments:
Some Days I Feel Really Old
›
The students in my biochemistry course are also taking a course called Molecular Cell Biology . They use the textbook Molecular Biology of...
13 comments:
The Largest Single Organism on Earth
›
The largest known organism is not some giant squid or other cephalopod. It's a stand of quaking aspen in Utah known as Pando . What se...
4 comments:
Nobel Laureates: Dam and Doisy
›
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1943. Henrik Carl Peter Dam (1895-1976) : "for his discovery of vitamin K" Edward Adel...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Most Metabolic Diseases Affect Unimportant Genes
›
Okay, so the title is a little bit disingenuous. Obviously metabolic diseases like cystic fibosis, thalasemia, phenylketonuria, and Huntin...
1 comment:
Vitamin K
›
Vitamin K (phylloquinone) is a lipid vitamin found in plants as K 1 , or phytylmenaquinone, and in bacteria as K 2 , or multiprenylmenaqui...
Silent Mutations and Neutral Theory
›
This is a post about the quality of science writing and what can be done about it. I'm picking on an article in SEED magazine here but...
16 comments:
The Taxonomy Song
›
Pop on over to Evolving Thoughts where John Wilkins has posted a YouTube video of kids singing The Taxonomy Song . Do you recognize the a...
2 comments:
Homer Jay Simpson Evolves
›
Everyone's going to be posting this but here it is anyway, ... just in case you don't see it elsewhere. As far as cartoon versions...
1 comment:
Monday, March 26, 2007
Internet Connection Speeds
›
Here are the results of a test for internet connection speed from InternetFrog.com . This is the speed I get at the university. Now, here&...
14 comments:
Happy 66th Birthday Richard Dawkins
›
Today is Richard Dawkins' birthday [ RichardDawkins.net ]. Go [ here ] to enter your own birthday message. I may disagree with Dawkins...
2 comments:
Monday's Molecule #19
›
Name this molecule. You must be specific but we don't need the full correct scientific name. (If you know it then please post it.) As ...
3 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version