Sunday, August 31, 2008

Science and Public Relations

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  I have come to this conclusion: the greatest tragedy of public polity, in science and without, in the democratic nations, one that looks v...
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Barack Obama Answers Science Questions

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  An organization called Science Debate 2008 has crafted 14 questions about science for the US Presidential candidates. Barack Obama has su...
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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Genomics and Darwinism!?

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  The scientific research journal Genome Research is proposing to publish a special issue on "Genomics and Darwinism" to coincide...

Dealing With the Controversy

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  Here's an exercise for those of you who are truly interested in teaching accurate science. Go to the recent posting by Casey Luskin on...
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Friday, August 29, 2008

Tangled Bank #112

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  The latest issue of Tangled Bank has been published on Science Notes [ Tangled Bank #112 ]. Welcome, science readers, to Tangled Bank 11...

Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd at Chautauqua

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  One of the many highlights of my week at Chautauqua was meeting Connie Barlow and her husband Michael Dowd. Michael is the author of Thank...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Useful RNAs?

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The latest issue of Nature contains a news feature by Anna Petherick [ Genetics: The production line ]. The article is mostly about a new r...
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Everyone Must Read this Paper

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  Christopher Taylor writes on Catalogue of Organisms ... Nearly thirty years ago, a paper was published that almost every student of evolu...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Spencer Wells at Chautauqua

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  Spencer Wells is Explorer in Residence at the National Geographic Society. He has impeccable credentials: Ph.D. with Richard Lewontin, an...
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Nobel Laureate: Arthur Harden

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  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1929. "for their investigations on the fermentation of sugar and fermentative enzymes" Arthur Harde...
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Barbara King Replies

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  Barbara King sent me the following email message in response to my posting on her talk at Chautauqua [ Barbara King at Chautauqua ]. When ...
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What Is a Scientist?

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  The question has come up in the discussion of the AAAS video on Panda's Thumb [ The AAAS responds to “Expelled” ]. The video highligh...
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The Colorado Gazette on Atheism.

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  Last week (Aug. 19) The Gazette from Colorado Springs published an opinion piece on atheism [ Dems dismiss the atheists: Why rude guests ...
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Evidence of Purpose?

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  Read Travelers in Endless Space on Exercise in Futility . [Hat Tip: Primordial Blog ]
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The Trichoplax Genome

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  Trichoplax adherens is a very simple animal that moves about on surfaces like a gigantic amoeba and ingests any food that it flows over. ...
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