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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Monday's Molecule #129
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Today's molecule is very famous so you aren't going to get any hints other than the fact it's from the species Gallus gallus Y...
Timmy's Takes Manhattan
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Tim Hortons is opening 13 stores in Manhattan and several more in Brooklyn. The first nine stores started serving coffee and donuts yest...
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Sequencing Koreans
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There are several complete 1 sequences of human genomes. The standard reference sequence is the one published at NCBI as a result of the ...
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Dennis Kucinich on Canadian Health Care Statistics
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If I were an American I would have voted for Dennis Kucinich during the Democratic primaries. Here's why ... David Gratzer is a Canad...
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
The Doctrine of Joint Belief
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The Doctrine of Joint Belief is the idea that just because a single person holds two different worldviews (e.g. science and religion, Christ...
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Nobel Laureate: Adolf Butenandt
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939. "for his work on sex hormones" Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (1903 - 1995) won the Nobel ...
Matt Nisbet Is Puzzled
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The results of the Pew Science Survey tell us that American love science and they love scientists. Here's what the Pew researchers sa...
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
The Good News ....
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The good news is that FOX is doing its proper job of informing America about religious beliefs in other countries. The bad news is that ma...
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The PEW Poll on Science in America
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There is much to digest in the recent poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press in collaboration with the American As...
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Take the Science Knowledge Quiz
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The Science Knowledge Quiz is on the PEW website. It's associated with their recent poll on science and attitudes about science. I do...
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Student Attitudes: 60s vs 90s
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Old fogies who grew up in the 1960s are constantly complaining that today's university students are different. Modern students are muc...
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How Many People Have a Tape Worm Named After Them?
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How many people have a tape worm named after them? Quite a few, as it turns out. Do you know any of these people? Yes [ A Tapeworm To Call...
Who Do Canadians Trust?
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Harris/Decima conducted a poll of almost 1200 English-speaking Canadian adults on behalf of Reader's Digest [ The Canadians You Trust...
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Francis Collins: Director of NIH
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Bad news from The White House . President Obama Announces Intent to Nominate Francis Collins as NIH Director WASHINGTON – Today, Presiden...
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It's Just a Cracker
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From the Telegraph-Journal in New Brunswick [ It's a scandal! ]. A senior New Brunswick Roman Catholic priest is demanding the Prime M...
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