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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Proposition 8
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Last May the California Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples have the right to marry according to the California Constitution. Since ...
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Tangled Bank #117
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The latest issue of Tangled Bank has been published on Pro-Science [ Tangled Bank #117 ]. Welcome everybody to the 117th edition of the ...
The Best Invention of 2008
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According to Time magazine it's "The DNA Retail Test." Especially the one marketed by 23andMe . We are at the beginning of ...
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What the Heck Is This?
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You must go to Botany Photo of the Day to find out. Be thankful that we can't reproduce smells on our blogs.
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32 Nearby Stars
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Check out this interactive star map of the 32 nearest stars [ 32 Nearby Stars ]. Imagine that humans could establish colonies on several o...
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On Assuming that God Obeys the Laws of Physics and Chemstry
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John Pieret admires a recent posting by Steven Novella on NeuroLogica Blog where he (Novella) writes about More on Methodological Natural...
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Citing Blogs
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Some of my students have been asking how to cite blogs and other internet sources. I found a set of instructions on the NCBI website and I...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The Meat-Robots Are Stirring
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The mind-body problem is one of the more serious problems in philosophy. At the risk of over-simplifying, the two main camps can be descr...
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Voting Machines
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We just had a Federal Election in Canada. We used paper ballots and the results were in by midnight. I had only one choice to make. This i...
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Nobel Laureate: Albrecht Kossel
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1910. "in recognition of the contributions to our knowledge of cell chemistry made through ...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Translation at CSH
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My co-author, Marc Perry, is at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories on Long Island (NY, USA). He sent me this photograph. I think it may b...
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This Book Don't Need Reviews
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Book Description (from Dembski at Uncommon Descent ): Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, writes Richard Daw...
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Junk DNA Opponents Are at It Again
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Nils Reinton has just posted a provocative piece on Sciphu entitled Hammering nails in the “junk-DNA” coffin . Here's what he says, B...
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Schizophyllum commune
Has 28,000 Distinct Sexes
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This is the Botany Photo of the Day from The University of British Columbia Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research. The organism ...
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Definitions Matter: Negative Selection and Postive Selection
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In recent issues of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) we have an interesting example of misuse of a key term in e...
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