Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, March 06, 2008
The Humanist Globe
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I just found a new website called the The Humanist Globe . It was created by Mark Robinson who I met at the opening of the Centre for Inqu...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008
The α Helix
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Monday's molecule #63 is an α helix. This conformation of amino acids was first discovered by Linus Pauling who received the Nobel Pr...
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Nobel Laureate: Linus Pauling
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1954. "for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of t...
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Defining Evolution
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PZ Myers has started a thread on the definition of evolution [ An exercise for the readers ]. Here is PZ's choice ... Evolution is a w...
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THE SECULAR CONSCIENCE: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life
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The Centre for Inquiry Ontario is sponsoring a talk by Austin Dacey (photo below) on Friday night March 7th at the Beverley St. location ...
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Why the Right People Hate IDiots
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Jonathan Wells (see photo) is one of the leading intelligent design creationists. (As we'll see, that says a lot about the intellectua...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Mendel's Garden #24
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The 24th edition of Mendel's Garden has just been posted on Bayblab [ Mendel's Garden #24 - March 2008 ]. March has roared in lik...
Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Science
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SciBarCamp is starting in less than two weeks. In the tradition of BarCamps, otherwise known as "unconferences", (see BarCamp.o...
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Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater
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This summer, a number of people, including scientists and philosophers, will gather at the Konrad Lorenz Institute in Altenberg, Austria t...
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Monday, March 03, 2008
Multicellular Bacteria
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PZ Myers posted an article on the evolution of multicellularity [ The choanoflagellate genome and metazoan evolution ]. He begins with ... ...
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Monday's Molecule #63
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Today's molecule is a cartoon depicting a particular conformation of molecules. Your task is to identify the structure. Be as specific...
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Jane Harris Zsovan Doesn't Understand Speciation
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Jane Harris Zsovan posts on a blog called Design of Life . I don't read her blog on a regular basis but Denyse O'Leary recently l...
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Gene Genie #26
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The 26th edition of Gene Genie has been posted at sciencebase [ Rubbing Up the Gene Genie ]. Sciencebase is this week proud to play host...
Erudite critic takes on new atheists
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A column in yesterday's Toronto Star criticized the position of the so-called "New Atheists" [ Erudite critic takes on new ...
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Brussels
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My daughter Jane and her husband Michael live in Brussels. Last weekend we visited them and they took us on a walking tour of downtown Bru...
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