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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Another Blogger Leaves the SEED Blogs (ScienceBlogs.con)
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Dr. Joan Bushwell's Chimpanzee Refuge is the latest blog to jump ship. That makes three or four blogs that have left the SEED group i...
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
John Hawks on "Adaptationists vs Pluralists"
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John Hawks recently posted a comment about adaptationists [see Richard Lewontin: "[T]oo rapid for genetic adaptation" ]. Hawks s...
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Friday, May 29, 2009
The Mouse Genome is "Finished"
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The first draft of the mouse genome was published by the Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium back in 2002. At the time it was the only avai...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
A Nomination Meeting
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Last Fall I joined the Liberal Party of Canada in order to have a say in electing a new leader and a new candidate in my riding. My riding...
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Nobel Laureate: Willem Einthoven
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1924 "for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram" Willem Einthoven (1...
Mixing Science, Religion, and Politics
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The first draft of the human genome sequence was announced on June 26, 2000. There was a huge press conference in the East Room of the Whi...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Faith and Evolution at the Discovery Institute
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The Discovery Institute has a new website called Faith + Evolution . It's designed to explore the relationship, if any, between the Chr...
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Francis Collins and the National Institutes of Health (USA)
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After many years of service as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), Francis Collins resigned from NIH last ye...
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Lies, Damn Lies, etc
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Thomas Baekdal advises his clients on how to communicate in the 21st Century. He has posted an analysis of current sources of information ...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Happy Towel Day!
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Yesterday was Towel Day in honor of Douglas Adams. The photograph is from the streets of Innsbruck, Austria, in 2005. That's where Ad...
Monday's Molecule #123: Winners
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UPDATE: The "molecule" is a normal electrocardiograph (ECG) of a human heartbeat [see Wikipedia: Electrocardiography ]. The Nob...
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Denyse Hears Lawrence Krauss
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Denyse O'Leary is in Sudbury attending the Canadian Science Writers Conference. One of the speakers was Lawrence Krauss&mdahs;who ...
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Brian Switek on the
Darwinius
Affair
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Brian Switek is an undergraduate at Rutgers University in New Jersey (USA). He's the man behind Laelaps . Brian knows a lot about foss...
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The Perfect Gift
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We've all had this problem. Try to choose the perfect gift for your partner without asking their opinion. Chances are, you got yoursel...
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Monday, May 25, 2009
The Fallacy of the Continuum
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I once wrote an essay called " Theistic Evolution: The Fallacy of the Middle Ground ." The point I was trying to make is that Th...
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