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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Monday, March 09, 2009
Monday's Molecule #111
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Identify this molecule. Be as specific as possible, including the species. Explain why that species was chosen. Here's a hint: 1b17. T...
Good Quality Journalism Sells Newspapers
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On Saturday night we celebrated my nephew's birthday at Pic Nic on Queen St. East. I won't tell you how many years we were celebr...
Did biologists really think that human evolution stopped?
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John Hawks has responded to my posting on the Discover article. In that posting [ Are Humans Still Evolving? ] I criticized Hawks and his c...
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Epigenetics, Lamarck, and Darwin.
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Ryan Gregory at Genomicron educates us about Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck and Charles Darwin [ Lamarck di...
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International Women's Day
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Yesterday (Sunday) was International Women's Day . Ms. Sandwalk and I celebrated by buying a new monitor for her computer. The monitor...
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The Value of Science in Canada
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Canadian Girl Postdoc in America writes about The Value of Science in Canada . Here's a teaser ... read it all. Stephen Harper (the P...
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Saturday, March 07, 2009
The Streetcar We Desire
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Last night we rode the atheist streetcar for about an hour and a half through downtown Toronto. Nobody reacted to the sign. That's pro...
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The Untenability of Theistic Evolution
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A reader has alerted me to an essay by Bart Klink, a Dutch atheist [ The Untenability of Theistic Evolution ]. I think that from all the a...
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Friday, March 06, 2009
Are Humans Still Evolving?
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This is a follow-up to my earlier posting about the latest issue of Discover magazine [ Ascent of Darwinism ]. I want to discuss another ar...
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Ribonucleic Acid (RNA)
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There was a time in the not-to-distant past when RNA didn't get no respect. Most biochemists worked with proteins or DNA and RNA was r...
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Depth vs Breadth
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A University of Virginia press release announces ... A recent study reports that high school students who study fewer science topics, but...
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The Ascent of Darwinism
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The latest issue of Discover has several articles on Darwin and evolution. They are introduced in an editorial by Corey S. Powell, Disco...
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Ray Comfort Teaches Us about Evolution and Atheism
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Ray Comfort wrote a book. He's not very happy because the book isn't doing so good. This is because of an atheist conspiracy [ Ath...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Nobel Laureates: Frederick Banting and J.J.R. Macleod
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923 "for the discovery of insulin" Frederick Grant Banting (1891 - 1941) and John Ja...
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Canadian Parliament Rejects Theory of Evolution?
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The Canadian Press is reporting that the House of Common rejected a motion to recognize Darwin's theory of evolution as the only scien...
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