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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Friday, April 10, 2009
Michael Ruse: 90% 0f Scientists Are Selectionists
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I'm at the Center for Inquiry 12th World Congress in Washington D.C. Last night I attended a session on "The Influence of Darwin....
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Thursday, April 09, 2009
Twisted Tree of Life Award #3
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Jonathan Eisen at The Tree of Life has just awarded his third Twisted Tree of Life Award . And well-deserved it is.
New Breakthrough in Evolution Theory
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Imagine a culture of yeast cells growing in a medium where sucrose is the only carbon source. Sucrose isn't the preferred carbon sourc...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
What Stephen Harper Said in 1997
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I don't know where Canadian Cynic gets all this stuff but he has just posted a link to a speech by Stephen Harper in 1997 [ CTV.ca ]....
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2009 Canada Gairdner Awards
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The 2009 Canada Gairdner Award recipients were announced last week. Each awardee gets $100,000 (CDN). The winners are ... Richard Losick ...
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Nobel Laureates: Mario Capecchi, Martin Evans, and Oliver Smithies
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007 "for their discoveries of principles for introducing specific gene modifications in mi...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009
On the Evolution of Bacterial Chromosomes
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This is a story about two cultures; the old biologists who grew up with the 'phage group and bacterial genetics, and the younger biolo...
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How to Prevent Evolution in Mosquitos
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A paper in PLoS Biology discusses How to Make Evolution-Proof Insecticides for Malaria Control . The idea is to develop drugs that only ki...
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Monday's Molecule #116: Winners
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UPDATE: The photographs of the mouse embryos are from a paper by Kothary et al. (1989). This was a study where a lac Z (β-galactosidase) g...
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Applying to NSERC? Everyone gets a grant!
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According to a study done by Richard Gordon and Bryan J. Poulin, Cost of the NSERC Science Grant Peer Review System Exceeds the Cost of Gi...
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Royal Protocol
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Ever country has a protocol officer and part of their job is to specify how one is supposed to treat the Head of State. In America, for ex...
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Monday, April 06, 2009
Five Against One
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It's sounds so unfair. Four Christians against one lone atheist. If you add in the moderator it's five against one. But the ath...
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What Is Epigenetics?
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Berger et al. (2009) attempt to define epigenetics. "An epigenetic trait is a stably heritable phenotype resulting from changes in a ...
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Monday's Molecule #116
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If you look closely you'll realize that these mouse embryos aren't really "molecules" in any meaningful sense of the wor...
Sunday, April 05, 2009
Religion Wars: Linux and Mac vs. Rationalism
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Greg Linux is disappointed that the Confliker virus didn't do more damage on April 1st [ Did Conflicker Flop? Yes. Why? Nobody knows ]...
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