Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Monday, December 10, 2012
Monday's Molecule #195
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Last week's molecule was allantoin, the breakdown product of uric acid that's found in the urine of mammals. Other animals can degra...
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The Purpose of Education
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My friends and I were talking about the purpose of education over dinner on Saturday night. This video criticizes one side of the issue; nam...
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Eschaton 2012 Montage
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A brief summary of what went on in Ottawa Nov. 30 - Dec. 2, 2012 from Atheism TV . [Hat Tip: Veronica Abbas at Canadian Atheist .]
Saturday, December 08, 2012
TED Tries to Clean Up Its Act
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I claim that the top three criteria for good science reporting are: Accuracy, Accuracy, and Accuracy. Everything else falls into fourth plac...
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James Shapiro Responds to My Review of His Book
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I reviewed Shapiro's book, Evolution: A View from the 21st Century for NCSE reports. (NCSE = National Center for Science Education.) Yo...
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Friday, December 07, 2012
Science Education at Eschaton 2012
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One of the Saturday morning sessions at Eschaton 2012 was on science education. Eugenie Scott started off with a survey of various states (...
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Ian Cromwell Talks About Zombies and Racists at Eschaton 2012
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I met many interesting people at Eschaton 2012 in Ottawa. One of them was Ian Cromwell who gave a talk about racism on Sunday morning. Ian ...
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Thursday, December 06, 2012
James Shapiro Never Learns
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One of the remarkable things about kooks is that they are incredibly resistant to learning from their mistakes. James Shapiro gives us a fin...
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The Best of Evolutionary Psychology
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There seems to be general agreement that many of the papers in evolutionary psychology are less than stellar examples of the best that scie...
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Wednesday, December 05, 2012
What's Happened to Universities?
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The latest issue of Academic Matters has a provocative article by Ken Coates on The Quiet Campus: The Anatomy of Dissent at Canadian Univer...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012
Sean Eddy on Junk DNA and ENCODE
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Sean Eddy is a bioinformatics expert who runs a lab at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Janelia Farm Research Campus in Virginia ...
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Carnival of Evolution #54
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This month's Carnival of Evolution is hosted by Ryan Somma at ideonexus . Read it at: Carnival of Evolution #54: A Walkabout Mount Impr...
Monday's Molecule #194
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Last week's molecule was N -(2-aminoethyl)glycine, a molecule that has been used to build artificial DNA molecules. The winner was Micha...
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John Wilkins Defends Evolutionary Psychology
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It's really hard to maintain one's reputation as a curmudgeon. John Wilkins is having a particularly tough time these days since mos...
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Monday, December 03, 2012
PZ, Poutine, and the End of the World
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One of the highlights of Eschaton 2012 was taking PZ Myers to the Elgin Street Grill for poutine. He had the plain, ordinary version dilute...
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