Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Evolution of Horseshoe Crabs
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The IDiots are at it again but this time they are aided and abetted by scientists who should know better. The subject is horseshoe crabs, fa...
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Friday, January 27, 2012
The Problem With Press Releases
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Press releases are a problem. Ryan Gregory has found a doozy: Radical Theory Explains the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life, Challenge...
Paul Doty (1920 - 2011) and DNA Renaturation
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Paul Doty was born in 1920. He died last month (Dec. 5, 2011) at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA [ Paul Mead Doty (1920-2011) ]. H...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Where Is David Attenborough?
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Jerry Coyne has a little quiz for you as you watch this music video about evolution [ An Evolution Music Video ]. You should visit his bl...
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Monday, January 23, 2012
What's the Difference Between a Human and Chimpanzee?
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The number of differences between the human and chimpanzee genomes is consistent with Neutral Theory and fixation by random genetic drift. ...
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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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