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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Monday, January 23, 2012
Monday's Molecule #156
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This is one of the most important molecules on Earth. Without it we wouldn't be around and neither would most species. The revised st...
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Sunday, January 22, 2012
The Modern Molecular Clock
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The first molecular phylogenetic trees were constructed from the amino acid sequences of small proteins. One of those proteins was cytochrom...
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Margoliash on "Homology" (1969)
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Emanuel Margoliash (1920 - 2008) is famous for his studies of the evolution of cytochrome c genes/proteins. His lab sequenced dozens of th...
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Understanding Mutation Rates and Evolution
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The recent article by physician Joseph A. Kuhn contains a lot of errors and misunderstandings [ Physicians Can Be IDiots ]. Today I want to ...
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Congratulations Vip!
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Here's Vipulan Vigneswaran with his fabulous Biochemistry textbook that he won by contributing to Monday's Molecule [ And the Win...
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Alain de Botton Tells Us the Good Things About Religion
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Here's a TED talk by Alain de Botton . He claims to be an atheist but he's promoting Atheism 2.0. That's a version of atheis...
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James Shapiro Publishes on
Evolution News & Views
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James A. Shapiro, author of Evolution: a View from the 21st Century has been criticized for being an Intelligent Design Creationist, or at ...
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Physicians Can Be IDiots
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Joseph A. Kuhn is a physician at the Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. This is a Christian medical center associated with Baylo...
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Canadian Blog Awards: Science and Technology
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Voting for The Canadian Blog Awards ends tomorrow so this is your last chance to pick the best of the best(?). Most of you will be in...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
False Dichotomy
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A false dichotomy is when you are presented with two choices and told that if one is wrong then the other must be correct but there are a...
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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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