Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Friday, December 14, 2007
Revenge of the Peppered Moth
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Seven years ago, the creationists launched a attack on the peppered moth. Jonathan Wells tried hard to prove that this well-known example of...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
23andMe - More Hype from Genetic Testing Services
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The Genetic Genealogist promotes another for-profit testing service called 23andMe [ The Latest on 23andMe ]. Go to their website [ 23and...
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Killer Pet Food Revisited
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Do you remember the scandal from last March were pet cats and dogs were dying, allegedly from pet food manufactured by Menu Foods of Miss...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Is Evolution Linked to Environmental Change?
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As a general rule, adaptationists are mostly interested in the results of natural selection and not very interested in evolution by random...
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Pushing Electrons
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Most of you remember your first organic chemistry course with great fondness. You recall the thrill and excitement of learning new reactio...
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Nobel Laureate: Sir Robert Robinson
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1947. "for his investigations on plant products of biological importance, especially the alkaloids"...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Mendel's Garden #21
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The 21st version of Mendel's Garden has just been posted on The Inoculated Mind [ Mendel’s Garden #21: Old DNA never dies… ]. Welcome...
Stop the Press - Genes Have Regulatory Sequences!
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You heard it here first—well, not exactly. The breaking news was first reported over at Biology News Net . Junk DNA isn't junk at all ...
The False Icon of Progressive Evolution
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Elaine Warburton of Genetics & Health has just posted an article on the Hawks et al. (2007) paper [ Humans on evolutionary fast track...
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Are humans evolving faster?
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The press release from the University of Utah [ Are humans evolving faster? ] describes the Hawks et al. (2007) paper I blogged about earl...
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Accelerated Human Evolution
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We frequently hear claims that humans have stopped evolving. Most of these claims have to do with medical advances that are now allowing p...
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Morphine, Heroin, Codeine
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Monday's Molecule #55 was morphine [(5α,6α) -7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy- 17-methylmorphinan-3,6-diol]. Morphine is an opiate. It is the m...
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Monday, December 10, 2007
SEED and the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology - I Take Back My Praise
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On October 1, 2007 I praised SEED magazine for being one of the few science magazines to correctly define the Central Dogma of Molecular B...
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Monday's Molecule #55
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This is a strange-looking molecule. You have to name it, giving us the common name and the correct systematic IUPAC name. There's a di...
IDiot Logic on Display at Uncommon Descent
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GilDodgen is at it again, displaying his unique sense of logic in defense of Intelligent Design Cretionism [ A Practical Medical Applicati...
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