Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Take a Stand Without Taking Sides
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On Tuesday night I went to a meeting of Liberals in my riding and heard Michael Ignatieff speak. It was a small gathering (250) so there w...
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What Is Science?
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This video does an excellent job of explaining the difference between science and superstition. The world would be a much better place if ...
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Arlo Guthrie: City of New Orleans
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While poking around on YouTube I stumbled across this performance by Arlo Guthrie of one of the best songs ever. I just had to share it wi...
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Meat Loaf: Would you let your daughter listen to "Paradise by the dashboard light?"
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I have a confession to make. I've been fan of Meat Loaf ever since Rocky Horror Picture Show . 1 It was fun watching Meat Loaf on thi...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Nobel Laureates: Sir Henry Hallett Dale and Otto Loewi
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1936. "for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses" Sir ...
Dr. Larry Moran Flunks Philosophy
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It wouldn't be fair for me to ignore Michael Egnor's devastating put-down demonstrating my ignorance and bigotry [ Dr. Larry Moran...
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Falling into a pit
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Falling into a pit may be a much better analogy for evolution than adaptive peaks and climbing Mt. Improbable. To find out why read Chris ...
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Atheist Buses in Genoa
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" The bad news is that God does not exist. The good news is that you do not need him. " I wonder how long it will take until the...
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The taste of MSG
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Discount Thoughts has posted a wonderful description of how we taste the glutamate in monosodium glutamate [ How we taste umami ]. The ta...
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Do you know what this is?
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If you can't identify the organism in the photograph then read The Beautiful Angel of Death on Catalogue of Organisms . Life is stran...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
ScieneOnline '09: Things to do in Durham
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ScienceOnline '09 is being held in the Research Triangle, North Carolina (USA) this weekend. For those of you who aren't familiar ...
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2008 Weblog Awards
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Voting for the best science blog will close tonight. Pharyngula is in the running and so is Bad Astronomy . The current leader in the vo...
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Paleobet and Cambrian Fossils
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PZ has discovered palaeobet 1 so, naturally, I had to post my initials as well. Some of you may not recognize "laggania." It...
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Monday, January 12, 2009
Trouble with Blogger Is Over
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Blogger has finally fixed the problems with RSS feeds. As I mentioned earlier [ Trouble with Blogger ] this is a problem that the blogger ...
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Drift vs. Selection
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Daniel MacArthur of Genetic Future weighs in on the ongoing debate over the important of random genetic drift vs natural selection during...
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