Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Dan Dennett vs. Andrew Brown
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I remember meeting Andrew Brown in a London pub seven years ago. He didn't like the New Atheists then and he still doesn't like them...
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Ugly Americans
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I don't mean to pick on PZ Myers—he's just one of many seemingly intelligent people who think that the American system of government...
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Monday, July 22, 2013
Donald Prothero Reviews
Darwin's Doubt
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Donald Prothero is a paleontologist. He has reviewed Darwin's Doubt [ Stephen Meyer's Fumbling Bumbling Cambrian Amateur Follies...
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Stop Taking Vitamin Supplements!
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Here's a post for all my friends and acquaintances who think they have to load up on vitamin supplements ever day. You don't need th...
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Re-learning Russian
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Ms. Sandwalk and I are going to be in St. Petersburg (Russia) in a few weeks. We plan on spending four hours in the building on the right (a...
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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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