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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Nobel Laureate: Sir Frederick Hopkins
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929. "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins" Sir Frederick Gowland Hop...
Urban Cowboys
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Here's a photo of Gord [ Gordon Moran ] and Rach about to descend into the Grand Canyon. Cute hats, eh? The mules turned out to be stu...
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Good Science Writers: David Raup
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David M. Raup is Avery Distinguished Service Professor (emeritus) of Geophysical Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, and The Conceptual Found...
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Who Was More Important: Lincoln or Darwin?
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This week's issue of Newsweek has an article by Malcolm Jones comparing the influence of Charles Darwin, the greatest scientist who e...
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Understanding Intelligent Design
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Dembski's latest book Understanding Intelligent Design is now on sale. Here's what Dembski has to say about it on his blog [ Unde...
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Happy Canada Day
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HAPPY CANADA DAY Canada's official birthday is today. Lot's of people, including me, took yesterday off as well, making it a fou...
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Monday's Molecule #78
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Today is Tuesday so, once again, it's time for Monday's Molecule. 1 This time there are two molecules and you have to get them bo...
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Good Science Writers: Helena Curtis
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Helena Curtis is another science writer who didn't make it into The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing . She died in 2005. One of m...
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Darwinism at the ROM
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Yesterday I attended a symposium on evolution at the Royal Ontario Museum [ Darwin Symposium at the ROM ]. The emphasis was on Charles Dar...
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Friday, June 27, 2008
The Globe and Mail Reviews "Expelled"
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So far, all of the Canadian reviews of Expelled have been good (i.e., they pan the movie). Some are more creative than others. Liam Lacy&...
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Mars to Sequence Cocoa Genome
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Jonathan Eisen is excited because the Mars company is planning to sequence the cocoa genome [ Combining two of my favorite things - chocol...
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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...
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