Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Dancing
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Ms. Sandwalk sent me the link to this video. She knows that I love this sort of thing. It makes me happy.
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The "Harper Government" Responds
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Basic, fundamental research in Canada is in big trouble. The current government, led by Stephen Harper's Conservatives, have cut back on...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
A History of Science Blogging
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Blogs have been around for more than a decade but it's still not clear what purpose they serve (if any). We still don't know how to ...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Protest on Paliament Hill
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper is destroying basic research in Canadian universities. His government is also shutting down government resear...
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Rosie Redfield at Evolution Ottawa 2012
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Rosie Redfield gave a talk on Sunday night. She described the work she did on the so-called "arsenic-incorporating" strain of bact...
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Saturday, July 07, 2012
Beaver Tails
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Tonight a bunch of us went for dinner at a pub in the Byward Market area of Ottawa just a short walk from the conference centre. Afterward w...
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Quantitative Trait Evolution
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I'm at Evolution Ottawa 2012 and this afternoon I went to a session on New phylogenetic methods for quantitative trait variation . I ...
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Communicating Science to Society
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I attended a workshop on Communicating Science to Society at Evolution Ottawa 2012 . The workshop was hosted by two science writers, Peter C...
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Evolution and Poutine
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A bunch of us are attending Evolution Ottawa 2012 . We set off to find the best poutine in the region and ended up at Jean Burger in Wakefie...
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Wednesday, July 04, 2012
Another IDiot Book:
Science and Human Origins
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The IDiots at Disco ( Discovery Institute ) have published another book. This time the authors are Ann Gauger, Douglas Axe, and Casey Luskin...
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Carnival of Evolution #49
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This month's Carnival of Evolution (49th version) is hosted Mousetrap: ecology and evolution footnotes . Read it at: Carnival of Evolut...
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Tuesday, July 03, 2012
Biochemists on Abbey Road
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Jerry Coyne posted the photograph on the right and said, "If you don’t know what happened a few minutes after this picture was taken in...
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Sebastian Thrun Will Change Education
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John Hawks is a big fan of online education. He posted a link to a Wall Street Journal article about online education [ Online education and...
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Was the Origin of Life a Lucky Accident?
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Nick Lane has written a very nice article in the June 23, 2012 issue of New Scientist : Life: is it inevitable or just a fluke? . Nick Lan...
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Monday, July 02, 2012
Monday's Molecule #176
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Today's molecule has a common name and a much less common systematic (IUPAC) name. You need to supply both names in order to win. You al...
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