Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The Flying Spaghetti Monster Steals Meatballs (What's the Purpose of Philosophy?)
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The Flying Spaghetti Monster is all-powerful and all-knowing and she loves meatballs. She is also very sneaky and doesn't want to leave ...
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Monday, August 27, 2012
Monday's Molecule #183
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Last week's molecule was a small protein machine that pumps protons across a membrane (ubiquinol:cytochrome c oxidoreductase) [ Monday&...
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The Ethics of Genome Analysis
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Lots of people are having their genomes sequenced or otherwise analyzed for specific alleles. Those people should get all the information th...
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Thinking Critically About Graphs
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Jeff Mahr is trying to teach his students how to think critically so he asked them a question about a graph. Check it out to see if you woul...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
For All Those People Who Like to Take Pictures of Their Food Using Their iPhone
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You know who you are!
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Tomoko Ohta and Nearly Neutral Theory
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There's an interview with Tomoko Ohta in the August 21, 2012 issue of Current Biology : Tomoko Ohta . You should know who she is but i...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Designing a New Biochemistry Curriculum
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I want to draw your attention to an article in the July/August 2012 issue of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education (BAMBED). The aut...
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Origin Stories
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Here's a podcast on the origin of life. Check out the website to see who's talking [ Origin Stories ]. For some strange reason the...
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Monday, August 20, 2012
Pseudogenes Are Pseudogenes and They Are Almost Always Junk
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The IDiots have found a paper by Wen et al. (2012) with a very provocative title, "Pseudogenes are not pseudo any more." Natural...
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Monday's Molecule #182
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Last week's molecule was a ganglioside (G M2 ) that's associated with Tay-Sachs disease [ Monday's Molecule #181 ]. This week&...
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Sunday, August 19, 2012
Green T4 Bacteriophage Earrings
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Ms. Sandwalk's birthday is coming up in a few weeks and I'm getting nervous. I always seem to choose the wrong present. Turns out th...
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A Question for Anthropologists
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This year's special issue of Scientific American is "Beyond the Limits of Science." One of the articles is about human evolut...
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Saturday, August 18, 2012
Atheists Have to Address the Social and Emotional Needs of People (or the Church Wins)
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I stole this title from the Friendly Atheist , Hemant Mehta [ Atheists Have to Address the Social and Emotional Needs of People (or the Chur...
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Friday, August 17, 2012
What Would Disprove Jerry Coyne's Version of Evolution?
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Jerry Coyne has a particular view of evolution—one that conflates fact, theory, and history [ What would disprove evolution? ]. Based on h...
Disproving Evolution
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Elsewhere on the internet there's a discussion about whether evolution can be disproved by simply finding a fossil out of order. Here&...
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