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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Nobel Laureate: Roderick MacKinnon
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2003. "for structural and mechanistic studies of ion channels" Roderick MacKinnon (1956 - ) was aw...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Nuclear War Is Bad for You
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A couple of scientists at the University of Colorado have modeled what might happen if there was a nuclear war between India and Pakistan ...
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The Bombardier Beetle
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According to a report in ScienceDaily , there has been progress in understanding how the Bombardier beetle can eject such a powerful spray...
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Monday, April 07, 2008
Two Non-Scientists Talking about Science
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Listen to Dr. R.C. Sproul interview Ben Stein. There are lots of very funny bits but let me pick out just one example. Here's what Ben...
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Have Your Cake and Eat It Too.
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Matt Nisbet has tried to defend his attacks on PZ Myers and Richard Dawkins with a posting that promotes Paul Kurtz as a "reasonable&...
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Monday's Molecule #67
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This is a very important protein. Most living organisms on this planet could not survive if this protein didn't do its job. Your task ...
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Sunday, April 06, 2008
TV Ontario's Best Lecturer
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I've been critical of the contest for best lecturer because it focuses on style and not on substance [ TV Ontario's Best Lecturers...
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Framing Atheism
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Here's a video that presents statistics about atheism. Some of it makes me uncomfortable because the numbers can be very misleading. I...
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Free Cheesecake!
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Canadian Cynic just recorded one million page views! Congratulations to whoever you are and to your equally mysterious co-bloggers. The b...
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One Protein - Two Folds
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Michael Clarkson at Discount Thoughts posted a discussion of a paper published by Tuinistra et al. (2008) [ Two folds for lymphotactin ]. T...
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Friday, April 04, 2008
Levinthal's Paradox
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Back in 1969, Cyrus Levinthal was thinking about protein folding (Levinthal, 1969). He wondered how long it would take for a protein to fold...
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Michael Egnor Gets It Right
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Michael Egnor has posted a number of quotations from me about how I would deal with people who don't understand the basic principles o...
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Mike Huckabee Promotes "Expelled"
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Were you wondering what Mike Huckabee was up to these days? No? Okay, then you probably won't be interested in this video .... Why is ...
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Buy This Book!!!
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Carl Zimmer is among the very best—possibly the best—of the modern science writers. His new book Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science o...
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Having a Wife Creates More Housework for Men
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A newly released study looks at the amount of house work done by men and women in different living situations. Like most of these surveys,...
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