Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Friday, October 19, 2007
The It's Its There Their They're Quiz
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You Scored an A You got 10/10 questions correct. It's pretty obvious that you don't make basic grammatical errors. If anything, yo...
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I knew There Had to Be a Good Reason!
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(for avoiding tofu) Eating soya could slash men's sperm count . Men who eat just half a serving of soya a day have drastically fewer s...
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Maher Arar Appears (Remotely) Before US Congressional Committee
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In September 2002 Maher Arar was detained at New York's JFK Airport on the grounds that he was a suspected terrorist. At the time Mahe...
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The Watson Affair
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This Watson dust-up is going to get very interesting. First we have all those people who were quick to condemn Jim Watson as a low-life ra...
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Email Message Warns about Canadian Health Care
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Friday's Urban Legend: MOSTLY FALSE The email message begins with, This was sent from Canada to a friend in the States. I saw on the ...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
More Restricted Access to Journal Articles
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The press release from the Dept. of Energy Joint Genome Institute (USA) sounds really cool [ Massive reanalysis of genome data solves case...
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Does the Universe Have a Purpose?
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There's a two page ad in last week's issue of NewScientist . It's paid for by the Templeton Foundation and the ad consists of ...
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Can Someone Explain this Quotation?
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The latest issue of SEED magazine has a quotation from Sir Paul Nurse, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology & Medicine in 2001 for ...
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Avoid Boring People
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I suspect most of you have heard about Jim Watson's provocative and politically incorrect comments as quoted in the Sunday Times last...
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Celebrating the Three Domain Hypothesis
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This press release from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) says it all. Thirty years ago this month, researchers at the ...
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Alister McGrath's Defense of Religion
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A few months ago I attended a lecture by Alister McGrath on Deluded about God? Responding to Richard Dawkins' God Delusion [ Alister Mc...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Race and Intelligence
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PZ Myers has stirred up a hornet'e nest by quoting Jim Watson's politically insensitive comments about race and IQ [ Eminent scien...
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Nobel Laureate: The Svedberg
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1926. "for his work on disperse systems" In 1926, The (Theodor) Svedberg (1884-1971) won the Nobel...
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The Compositon of Ribosomes
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The ribosome is an important part of the translation machinery. (The others are mRNA, aminoacyl-tRNAs, and translation factors). The trans...
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Monday's Molecule #47
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Today's molecule is the eukaryotic ribosome. That's not what you have to identify. What you have to name is the two subunits and e...
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