Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Tamoxifen and Breast Cancer
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When you get to my age, more and more of your female relatives, friends, and acquaintances will be diagnosed with breast cancer. They will...
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Words That Should Not Be Used Together in the Same Sentence: PETA + Ethics
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PETA stands for "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals." Apparently this group is unaware of the fact that human beings a...
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Nobel Prize: 2008?
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Chad Orzel at Uncertain Principles has started a contest to guess this year's Noble Prize winners [ Guess the Nobels, Win a Prize ]. ...
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Canada's Do Not Call List
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Today is the day Canada's DO NOT CALL (DNCL) list comes into effect. If you register your phone number with the Canadian Radio-televis...
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Monday's Molecule #90
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Identify this molecule. You need to describe what you see as accurately as possible and name the species from which this protein was purif...
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Strategic Voting
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I probably need to explain strategic voting to those people who don't have the "advantage" of living in a multiparty democra...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Discussing Junk DNA with an Adaptationist, Again
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Nils Reinton is a molecular biologist working in the field of medical diagnostics and he has been challenging the concept of junk DNA in the...
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Remembering Paul Newman
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Sleepy Hollow
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This is a view of the cemetery of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. It was taken by a visitor who posted it on the Friends of the Old D...
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The Oldest Non-Living Things on Earth
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First we had a link to the oldest living thing on Earth [ Botany Photo of the Day and the Oldest Living Organism ] and now we link to the ...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008
Botany Photo of the Day and the Oldest Living Organism
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The oldest known organism on the planet is about 4,800 years old. Find out what that has to do with the Botany Photo of the Day . It is of...
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One Hundred Words of Science
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Check out Biocurious where PhilipJ has posted on One hundred words of science . I've suggested a few changes. Look over the list and ...
Unrealistic Expectations
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Harold Varmus was in town recently to receive the Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research. He made some interesting commen...
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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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