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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Monday, July 22, 2013
Monday's Molecule #210
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Last week's molecule was the "go" conformation of the leader sequence in the E. coli trp operon. The winners were Rosie Redf...
Sunday, July 21, 2013
The Many Faces of Sal Cordova
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The IDiots are getting all excited about Nick Matzke because he dared to criticize Darwin's Doubt , a book about evolution written by a ...
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Bill Maher Shows Us that "Smart" People Can Believe Really Stupid Things
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Bill Maher thinks he's a smart person ... maybe even an intellectual. Here's a video of him attacking smart people who believe reall...
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
IDiot Irony
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Sometimes I really wonder what goes on at the Discovery Institute. As most of you know by now, Stephen Meyer has written a new anti-evolut...
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Can You Name These Famous People?
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I was cleaning up my files and I came across this photo from seven years ago. It's one of those vanity photos 1 where I try to impress ...
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Friday, July 19, 2013
Speaking of Trees
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My friends and colleagues, David Isenman and Jacqueline Segall, used to have a big tree in their back yard. On Monday July 8th it rained ......
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What Is Humanism?
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What the heck is humanism? The short answer is ... I have no idea. If someone tells me they're a humanist then I can guess that they h...
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How to Build a Research Institute
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The Francis Crick Institute is under construction in London (UK). When I first heard about this I thought that it would be a wonderful pla...
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What Should We Teach About the "Tree of Life"?
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As most of you already know, I think the Three Domain Hypothesis is dead. The history of life is better explained as a net with rampant tran...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013
The Largest Prokaryotic Genomes
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Some bacterial genomes are quite large. A few are larger than the smallest eukaryotic genomes. Many species of cyanobacteria are complex, ...
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Contradictory Phylogenies for Cyanobacteria
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The cyanobacteria are interesting for a number of reasons. They have a complex photosynthesis pathway with two separate phostosystems and an...
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The Shortest Distance ....
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I have many pet peeves. One of them concerns the people who build paths and walkways. If you're going to spend a lot of money constructi...
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Monday, July 15, 2013
Evidence for Intelligent Design
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Remember how the IDiots are always trying to tell us that their movement is scientific? It's all about scientific evidence for design. ...
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How the IDiots View Genome Research
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It's safe to say that a majority of knowledgeable scientists now agree that the most of our genome is junk. This is bad news for Intelli...
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Jenny McCarthy Will Be the New Co-Host of
The View
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You all remember Jenny McCarthy, right? She's the person who urges parents not to vaccinate their children, prompting formation of the J...
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