Sandwalk

  50 years ago today we were treated to the continuous "beep-beep" of the first artificial Earth satellite. Sputnik ("traveli...

  At the University or Toronto we're about to go through one of our regular navel-gazing exercises where the administrators ask us how t...

  Denyse O'Leary—Toronto's version of Bill Dembski—has written a book in collaboration with McGill researcher Mario Beauregard. It...

  The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983. "for her discovery of mobile genetic elements" Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) r...

  There are many eukaryotic transposons that resemble the simple bacterial transposons described in Transposons: Part I . The classic examp...

  Transposons are segments of DNA that can move (transpose) within the genome. They are also known as mobile genetic elements, transposable ...

  Here's part of a Harvard University Press release issued yesterday. Beyond a 'speed limit' on mutations, species risk extincti...

  One of my pet peeves is the misuse of the term "Central Dogma of Molecular Biology" [ Basic Concepts: The Central Dogma of Molec...

  The amount of misinformation being spread about the Mixed Member Proportional voting system is truly frightening. I thought the citizens o...

  "Gathering of the Godless" is one of the subtitles in an ABC News story about last weekend's atheist meeting in Virginia (U...

PhilipJ has posted the latest "Molecule of the Month" on Biocurious [ Molecule of the Month: Superoxide Dismutase ]. The molecule...

  Here's a scary report from the New York Daily News [ Bush eyes 'surgical' strikes vs. Iran, sez mag ]. The Daily News articl...

  From an ABC 20/20 special on atheism in July 2007.

 

  There's no structure today. Instead, I've given you a photograph of a flower. Isn't it pretty? You have to guess what molecul...