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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Airport Security and Liquid Contraband
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The other day I saw a photograph of an airport security guard standing in front of dozens of large plastic bags full of confiscated liquid...
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Atheists Are Intolerant and Militant
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Here's a video from "TheismBeatsAtheism." It's quite well done but still reflects the hollowness of the typical theist. ...
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
DNA Denaturation and Renaturation and the Role of Hydrogen Bonds and Stacking Interactions
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Several students have written to me with questions about the structure of DNA. The most troubling questions are from students who have rea...
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Do Fundamentalist Christians Actively Resist Learning?
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Last summer Tom Bozzo, an economist in Madison Wisconsin, played around with the latest data on science education in America [ Scientific ...
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Friday, December 28, 2007
"The Twelve Days of Christmas" Is a Secret Catholic Catechism
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Friday's Urban Legend: FALSE Today is the fourth day of Christmas (four calling birds). There's a persistent urban legend floatin...
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The Second Grapevine Genome Is Published
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A second version of the grapevine genome was published at PLoS ONE last week (Velasco et al. 2007). As I began to collect information on t...
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Thursday, December 27, 2007
The Grapevine Genome
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The sequence of the grapevine genome was reported in Nature last September (Jaillon et al. 2007). The 56 authors are all members of the F...
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Bon Voyage Charles
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On this day in 1831 Charles Darwin set sail from Plymouth Sound (England) on the newly refitted brig HMS Beagle. Its mission was to explo...
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Happy Holidays from Celebrity Atheists
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The Daily Telegraph (Sydney, Australia) has a gallery of 15 celebrity atheists [ Christ-miss for atheist celebs ]. My favorites are Katha...
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Pray for France!
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This is a public service announcement for all the creationists who have been visiting Sandwalk lately. France is in trouble. It needs you...
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
Oh My God!
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According to a report in the Toledo Blade a recent survey of 1005 American adults reveals the following astonishing facts [ Survey finds ...
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The Human Genetic Variation "Breakthrough"
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"Human Genetic Variation" is the scientific "breakthrough" of 2007, according to Science magazine. I have a problem w...
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Breakthrough of the Year in
Science
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For the longest time science journalists have been misusing the word "breakthrough." What they usually mean is any scientific di...
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Friday, December 21, 2007
Did You Forget Why They're Called IDiots?
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Bill Dembski and Jonathan Wells have teamed up to write a new book on Intelligent Design Creationism. By all accounts, it is no better tha...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Rome Lights the Colosseum
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From the International Herald Tribune [ Rome lights up Colosseum to celebrate UN vote on death penalty, abolition in New Jersey ]. The cit...
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