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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Canadian Dinosaur Coins
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The Royal Canadian Mint has dinosaur coins for sale. Here's a picture of the first one. It shows a fossil Parasaurolophus , a crested,...
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The OUT Campaign
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RichardDawkin.net has started something called the The OUT Campaign . The goal is to encourage all non-believers (atheists) to come out of...
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Friday, July 27, 2007
The Aliens Are Coming
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Friday's Urban Legend: False The following email message is going the rounds. ALIENS ARE COMING TO ABDUCT ALL THE GOOD LOOKI...
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
Theme: Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA)
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THEME Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Wellcome Trust Images A Strange Molecule Monday's Molecule #35 (ethidium) DNA Is a Polynucleotide T...
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The Wilkins, Stokes and Wilson Nature paper (1953)
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Wilkins published his work on the structure of DNA in the same issue of Nature as the Watson & Crick paper and the Franklin & Gosl...
The Franklin & Gosling Nature paper (1953)
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Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling published their results on the structure of DNA in a Nature paper that immediately followed the famou...
The Watson & Crick Nature Paper (1953)
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Watson & Crick submitted their paper on the structure of DNA to the journal Nature on April 2, 1953. It was published in the April 25th...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Nobel Laureate: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907. "in recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing diseases"...
Nobel Laureate: Ronald Ross
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1902. "for his work on malaria, by which he has shown how it enters the organism and ther...
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Plasmodium falciparum
Causes Malaria
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Malaria is caused by a small protozoan parasite called Plasmodium falciparum (left). The Plasmodium is a single-celled organism with a co...
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Quinine and Malaria
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Monday's Molecule #36 was quinine, an alkaloid isolated from the bark of Chichona, or quinine tree [ Cinchona pubescens ]. The tree o...
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Rosalind Franklin's Birthday
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Today (July 25th) would have been Rosalind Franklin's 87th birthday if she had not died of cancer on April 16, 1958 [ Rosalind Franklin:...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007
How Not to Get Elected in America
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The chart below was published in The New York Times [ God ’08: Whose, and How Much, Will Voters Accept? ]. It's pretty scary when you...
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There is no God
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PZ found this first [ Hide the guillotines, they're on to us! ]. And you wonder why we call them IDiots? The good part is that these p...
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One School System Network [OSSN]
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We learned today that the Progressive Conservative Party in Ontario is committed to expanding public funding of faith based schools [ Fait...
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