Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Good Science Writers: David Suzuki
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Of all the scientist writers who didn't make it into The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing , David Suzuki surely counts as the mos...
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The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
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The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing , Richard Dawkins ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom (2008) I'd be lying i...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Nobel Laureate: Susumu Tonegawa
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1987. "for his discovery of the genetic principle for generation of antibody diversity"...
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Tangled Bank #108
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The latest issue of Tangled Bank is #108. It's hosted at Wheat-dogg's world [ The Tangled Bank #108 ]. Welcome to The Tangled Ba...
Get a Job at CFI
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The Center for Inquiry (Toronto) is looking for someone to help out with their various activities. This is a part-time job. It's a won...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Selfish Genes
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In honey bee colonies the queen is the only fertile female. She lays all the eggs. The worker bees are female but sterile. The process of ...
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Monday, June 23, 2008
Monday's Molecule #77
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Today's molecule is related to a previous Monday's Molecule. This time you have to name the molecule and identify the various sym...
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Peter McKnight Reviews
Expelled
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The movie is called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed . Perhaps you've heard of it? After flopping in the USA it's about to open i...
Darwin Symposium at the ROM
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Come to the Darwin Symposium at the Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto) this Friday. Darwin Symposium Friday, June 27, 10:30 am - 3:30 pm Stat...
Come and Meet the Friendly Atheist!
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Hemant Mehya ( Friendly Atheist ) is giving a talk in Toronto this Friday. The talk is sponsored by the University of Toronto Secular Alli...
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Professor Sues Students for "Anti-intellectualism"
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Priya Venkatesan earned an Master's degree in genetics then went on to a Ph.D. in literature. She was a Professor at Dartmouth last year...
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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Sequence Alignment
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Sequence alignment is one of the crucial steps in deciding whether two genes/proteins are homologous. The two sequences are aligned from one...
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A Graduate Student Oath
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The Institute of Medical Studies (IMS) at the University of Toronto is a large department with many graduate students. Many of them are M....
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Friday, June 20, 2008
Errors in Sequence Databases
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Sandra Porter at Discovering Biology in a Digital World brings up an issue that has been bugging me for two decades [ Biologists vs. the Ag...
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Kristin Roovers Punished for Falsifying Data
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Kristin Roovers was a post-doc at the Ottawa Health Research Institute in Ottawa (Canada) until last week. Her job was abruptly terminated...
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