Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Friday, June 05, 2009
Laughter Evolved but Is It Adaptive?
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Jerry Coyne wrote an interesting article about the evolution of laughter . He closes with .. So laughter, at least when being tickled, app...
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Is There a Problem?
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Fr. Alphonse de Valk writes in Catholic Insight : Atheism: a threat to civilization Christian belief in Canada Today the Christian belief ...
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The Selective Advantages of Hairlessness, Baldness, and Gray Hair
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Denyse O'Leary collects silly Darwinian tales of the sort usually referred to as "just-so" stories. She alerted me to some r...
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Thursday, June 04, 2009
Science Literacy and the New Atheist Ideology
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Matt Nisbet is at it again. Here's something from his latest posting [ Science Literacy and the New Atheist Ideology: Rethinking Defin...
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Chris Mooney Changed His Mind
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Chris Mooney and Jerry Coyne are having a discussion about whether religion and science are compatible. Coyne says they are not and I agre...
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The law has no place in scientific disputes
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Simon Singh has decided to appeal the decision of a British court. That court ruled that his article on chiropractic in The Guardian cont...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Plants Are not Alive, Says PETA
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From The Wichita Eagle Kansas (USA): George Tiller shooting prompts PETA ad campaign in Wichita . A national animal rights group plans to...
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009
No Competing Interests
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The Darwinius affair continues. Let's recap the events. As Atlantic Productions puts it on their website .. THE LINK is a major multi...
Monday's Molecule #124: Winners
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This week's winner is Mike Fraser of the University of Toronto. (Yeah, Canada!) Here's what he wrote, The molecule is the Na+/K+ A...
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The Debut of
Science Nation
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Science Nation is an online magazine produced by the National Science Foundation (USA). The first "issue" was published yesterd...
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The Truth About Chiropractic
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Fifteen years ago, my faculty association (union) negotiated some increased coverage to our health plan. They added visits to the chiropra...
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Monday, June 01, 2009
What Should Scientific Organizations Say about Religion?
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The poll has closed and here are the results. A slight majority say that organizations like AAAS (amd NAS) should say nothing about the co...
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Monday's Molecule #124
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Name this molecule. Be as specific as possible. You must also identify the missing products and reactants. Be sure to get the stoichiometr...
Vaccinate Your Children
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) post videos on YouTube under CDCStreamingHealth . Here's part of their blurb ... ...
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Hardening the Border
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Want to know how to win friends and influence your allies? Shut down the border and turn your country into a fortress. That's one way ...
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