Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Fixing Carbon: Building a Better Rubisco
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On Not Getting with the Adaptationist Program As its complete name indicates, ribulose 1,5- bisphosphate carboxylase– oxygenase (Rubisco) ...
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Is There a Correct Way to Do Science?
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I think there are incorrect ways of doing science and I think that much of today's scientific literature is an example of bad science....
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Nobel Laureate: Melvin Calvin
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1961. "for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants" Melvin Calvin (1911-1997) w...
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Difficult Science Question
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I think you can figure out the question. Does this make a perpetual motion machine? [Hat Tip: LolCat Builder via Monado ]
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Summer Skeptics Bash July 12 & 13th
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Come to the Center for Inquiry , 216 Beverley Street at College, just south of the University of Toronto, in the heart of downtown. In hon...
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Fixing Carbon: the Structure of Rubisco
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Rubisco (ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase–oxygenase) is the key enzyme of the Calvin cycle. It catalyzes the fixation of atmospheric C...
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Fixing Carbon: the Rubisco Reaction
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Life as we know it is based on carbon. All organisms need to have a source of carbon in order to grow and multiply. Animals, such as humans...
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Are IDiots Creationists?
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I have complained about misuse of the term "Darwinism" by the Intelligent Design Creationists. They seem to be unable to grasp t...
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Welcome to Springfield
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The population of Springfield has just increased by one. Meet Sandwalk. Do you see a resemblance? I don't.
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Correcting the Bible
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Read The Atheist Bible . I have a small correction to Book Two, Chapter Two which reads, The variations in the biological organisms on Ear...
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Monday, July 09, 2007
Wellcome Trust Images
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The Wellcome Trust's extensive library of images in now available through Creative Commons Licence [ wellcome images ]. Over on Memoir...
Evolutionary Psychologists in Action
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Alan S. Miller and Satoshi Kanazawa are evolutionary psychologists. They have written an article for Psychology Today that goes a long wa...
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What Is Darwinism?
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Over on the thread Close, but no cigar we're having a little discussion about the meaning of the term "Darwinian." I explaine...
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Monday's Molecule #34
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Today's molecule is very simple. It is well-known to all biochemistry undergraduates—or at least it was well-known at the time they w...
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Sunday, July 08, 2007
Stop the Press!!! ... Genes Have Regulatory Sequences!
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Ira Flatow interviews John Greally (see photo) on Science Friday. Greally talks about the ENCODE project and junk DNA. You might be surpri...
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