Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Friday, September 26, 2008
Nature's
Evolution Question
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The British science magazine Nature asked the following question of each US Presidential candidate [ US election: Questioning the candida...
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Joe Who?
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According to CBS News , Washington - Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says today's leaders should take a lesson from the history ...
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Howler Monkeys
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Back in the olden days before blogs, we had the newsgroup talk.origins where the battle between evolution and creation was fought. The new...
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
How Many Genes Do Nematodes Have? -
Pristionchus pacificus
Genome
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Nematodes are small wormlike creatures that live almost everywhere. Many of them are parasites but there are thousands of species that liv...
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In the Words of Sydney Brenner
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Sydney Brenner says, Actually, the orgy of fact extraction in which everybody is currently engaged has, like most consumer economies, accu...
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Nobel Laureates: Sydney Brenner, Robert Horvitz, John Sulston
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2002. "for their discoveries concerning 'genetic regulation of organ development and pr...
McCain Snubs Letterman
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Ms. Sandwalk often watches David Letterman but I don't. 1 Last night John McCain called up David Letterman at the last minute to canc...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Discussing Junk DNA with an Adaptationist
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Adaptationists are scientists who like to find adaptive explanations for all features of organism. For them the concept of junk DNA is diffi...
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What Happened to 30 Biochemistry Graduate Students at Yale?
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In 1991 there were 30 young people beginning graduate school in the Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Progam at Yale University. Where...
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The Value of Science Blogs
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Three well-known science bloggers, Shelley Batts ( Of Two Minds ), Nicholas Anthis ( The Scientific Activist ), and Tara Smith ( Aetiology...
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Which Animal Phylum Has the Most Species?
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I bet almost all of you think it's Arthropoda since there are so many insects and especially beetles, which God was very fond of. 1 Ho...
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Happy Autumnal Equinox
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If I've got this right then today at 11:44 AM EST (i.e. right now!) is the Autumnal Equinox. Have a very happy one! Most people think ...
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Monday's Molecule #89
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You may have noticed that this week's "molecule" isn't exactly a molecule. It's something else entirely. In order to...
Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)
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Turner was an English artist who did most of his work in the first half of the nineteenth century. I'm a fan of most of Turner's p...
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
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Yesterday was 111th anniversary of an editorial published in The New York Sun . The author was Francis Pharcellus Church. See the article ...
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