Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The 2012 Edge Question
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John Brockman is, among other things, a literary agent with a large stable of famous scientists. He runs a website called The Edge and e...
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Scientists vs. Science Writers
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Follow the discussion on Ed Yong's blog Not Exactly Rocket Science [ Every scientists-versus-journalists debate ever, in one diagram ...
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Monday, January 16, 2012
What Does a Secular Society Look Like?
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Casey Luskin wonders What Would the World Look Like if the New Atheists Won the Day? . He's just read Penn Jillette's new book, G...
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The Mind of James Shapiro
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I recently read Evolution: a View from the 21st Century by James Shapiro. It was a very annoying and frustrating experience. I do not recom...
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Saturday, January 14, 2012
Phytoplankton Blooms
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This is a spectacular view of a phytoplanton bloom in the South Atlantic. It was taken by the Envisat satellite on Dec. 2, 2011 [ A South...
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Turn Off Your Irony Meters Before Reading This!!!
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Back in the days of newsgroups (last century) the howlers in talk.origins developed a running joke about irony meters . They were always bei...
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Friday, January 13, 2012
Life: You Know It When You See It
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Carl Zimmer, who blogs at The Loom , is interested in definitions of life. His latest essay highlights a definition proposed by Edward Tr...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Weep for the Poor Persecuted IDiots
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The Intelligent Design Creationists at Evolution News & Views and Uncommon Descent have been pushing the idea that acceptance of evo...
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Monday, January 09, 2012
Monday's Molecule #155
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We're going to talk about the evolution of this molecule in my class tomorrow. It's a good examples for illustrating some basic p...
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Saturday, January 07, 2012
Recent Advances in Intelligent Design Creationism
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In case you missed it, 2011 was a wonderful year for the IDiots. There were many "scientific" breakthroughs supporting the exist...
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The Santorum Amendment
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Rick Santorum is a potential candidate for President of the United States. He is currently seeking the nomination of the Republican party...
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Should Undergraduates Study the Primary Scientific Literature?
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The short answer to the question posed in the title is "yes" but there are many caveats. One of them is that it depends on what...
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Chris Hogue on Complexity and Evolution
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Chris Hogue is a Canadian biochemist/bioinformatician who works on protein folding (among other things) at the National University of Si...
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Friday, January 06, 2012
Plant microRNAs in Your Blood?
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Last month the science magazines and websites were all talking about a paper by Zhang et al. (2012) published in Cell Research . These wo...
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Carnival of Evolution #43
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This month's Carnival of Evolution (43rd version) is hosted by The EEB & Flow , a blog written by a large group of people interes...
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