Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Saturday, February 09, 2013
Why Do University Press Releases Continue to Spread Misinformation?
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There's a very interesting paper that's just been published online in ScienceExpress . The work is by Haung et al. (2013) from the B...
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IDiot Quote of the Day
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This is for all of you who really miss Saturday morning cartoons. It's from a post by David Klinghoffer who is upset about the way some ...
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Coming Soon to a Theater Near You - "The Unbelievers"
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I wonder if Richard Dawkins and/or Lawrence Krauss will win an Academy Award?
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Not All Atheists Are Skeptics
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PZ Myers posted an article last week that was part of an ongoing discussion about the role of atheism in the skepticism movement. The title ...
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Skeptics Must Be Atheists
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The skeptic movement has been in a bit of a turmoil over the past few years. One of the problems concerns the role of atheism in the movemen...
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Friday, February 08, 2013
Skip the Acknowledgements Slide!
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Joshua Schimel blogs at Writing Science . His latest post recommends that we stop ending our talks with a boring slide that lists all fundin...
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The Proper Role of Scientific Societies
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Scientific societies are made up of groups of scientists who band together for various legitimate purposes such as organizing meetings, publ...
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Thursday, February 07, 2013
“This House Believes Religion Has No Place In The 21st Century”
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Here's the video of last week's debate at the Cambridge Union debating society. The main event pitted Richard Dawkins against Rowan ...
American Loons: #409 Jonathan Wells and #411 John West
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Jonathan Wells has just been named to the Encyclopedia of American Loons : #409: Jonathan Wells . He joins another Discovery Institute Fello...
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WARNING: YOUR VALENTINE'S DAY TREATS MAY BE FILLED WITH GMOS - Support science by buying them right away before they are banned.
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I received this email message today from Leslie Maloy, (lmaloy@hastingsgroup.com). It's stupid. It's an example of scientific illite...
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Snow!!!
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Climate change has been very good to Toronto because the increase in temperature during the winter is just enough to avoid snow. In the past...
Dawkins vs Lennox: Has Science Buried God?
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Professor Richard Dawkins debated Professor John Lennox at Oxford University. This is an old debate from about five years ago. I find it ver...
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How Linus Pauling Discovered the α-Helix
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Biochemistry students have been learning this little bit of history for over fifty years. I discovered, quite by accident, that there's ...
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Wednesday, February 06, 2013
Do You Want to Go to a Conference?
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There's a conference in April called the Westminster Conference on Science and Faith . It takes place in a church in Philadelphia. Here&...
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Annual Darwin Lecture at the University of Toronto
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The Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and the Royal Ontario Museum present the Annual Darwin Lecture: Darwin, Lizards, and Ev...
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