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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Monday, July 30, 2012
There Are Many Ways to Improve High School Education: Dumbing It Down Is NOT One of Them
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Have you ever been at a social gathering and heard someone proclaim, somewhat proudly, that they just don't "get" math? They d...
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Darwinists Don't Believe in Junk DNA
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The "news" on Uncommon descent continues to amaze me. Today they put up a post with an ironic title: Sometimes, one runs into ID ...
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Sunday, July 29, 2012
Ophelia, Daniel, I Respectfully Disagree
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Ophelia Benson has put up several posts recently on the use of insulting terms in blog conversations. She is opposed. Ophelia recently linke...
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What's Wrong with this List?
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There are (brief) times when I wonder if it's unfair to label all Intelligent Design Creationists (IDC's) as "IDiots." I s...
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Friday, July 27, 2012
What Do Scientists Know about Ethics?
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Rosie Redfield doesn't like the way genetics is taught in most university courses. She thinks we should re-design genetics courses (Redf...
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NASA Confusion About the Origin of Life: Part II
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I'm going to keep hammering on this until it sinks in. We don't know how life began but one of the more fanciful hypotheses is tha...
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High School Students Find LUCA!
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What's Wrong with this Picture? Biology New Net posted a press release today from the American Institute of Physics : Researchers dig...
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Thursday, July 26, 2012
The Evolution of Enzymes from Promiscuous Precursors
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New enzymes often evolve from old ones via a gene duplication event. This gives rise to gene families encoding evolutionarily related enzyme...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Winners of the Google
Science
Technology Fair
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Anna Kuchment was there [ Google Science Fair: Winners tackle breast cancer, hearing loss and water quality ]. Just once, I'd like to se...
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Gunfights Cause Collateral Damage
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I heard on CNN that applications for gun permits are on the rise in Colorado. Apparently there are people who think that arming everyone wil...
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Do Invasive Mitochondria Spread by Drift or Selection?
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Many species are not really "species" according to the biological species concept. They are not reproductively isolated from their...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Speciation in Bears
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I read an interesting article a few months ago. It was a study of the phylogeny of bears with an emphasis of the origin of polar bears. In t...
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How the Heck Did This Happen?
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There are two recent events indicating that change is afoot in America. First, there's the recent poll suggesting that a majority of Ame...
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Monday, July 23, 2012
Monday's Molecule #178
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It's the dog days ( dies caniculares ) of summer and Sirius is hard at work. I'm going to let you off easy today. Identify the fou...
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Religious Intolerance: United States Is more Tolerant than Europe
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I hate it when this happens. I read a book review in yesterday's New York Times Sunday Book Review. If the review is accurate, the book...
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