Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
The Dark Matter Rises
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John Mattick is a Professor and research scientist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research at the University of New South Wales (Austra...
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Teach the Controversy
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I favor a strategy called "Teach the Controversy." 1 I think high school teachers should directly address issues that are controv...
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Monday, July 29, 2013
Monday's Molecule #211
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Last week's molecule was the the R stereoisomer of ibuprofen [(( R )-2-(4-(2-methylpropyl)phenyl)propanoic acid]. The winner was underg...
Sunday, July 28, 2013
The 25 Richest People Who Ever Lived
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This list is biased toward Americans and Englishmen. I'm sure there are many others who deserve to be in the top 25. There are other pro...
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My Connection to Geoffrey Chaucer and Medieval Science
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One of my ancestors is Katherine de Roet (1349-1403) better known as Katherine Swynford since she married Hugh Swynford. Katherine was the m...
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Friday, July 26, 2013
On Beating Dead Horses
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I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating. One of my Ph.D. students (Sharon Shtang) wrote her thesis on sequence comparisons and...
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Should Trinity Western University Law School Be Granted Accreditation?
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Trinity Western University is located in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. It wants to have a Law School so it has applied for accreditati...
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Get a Job: Dallas, Texas (USA)
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The Chair of my department 1 asked me to post this job advertisement in case any biochemists might be interested. It's a challenging po...
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Every non-lethal genome position is variable in the human population
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Melissa Wilson Sayres blogs at mathbionerd and Panda's Thumb . A recent post on Panda's Thumb address a tweet from Daniel Wegmann...
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David Klinghoffer Asks a Serious Question?
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Well, maybe not really serious. His latest post on Evolution News & Views (sic) is about something called "Darwinian censorship&qu...
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
IDiots Don't Understand Punctuated Equilibria
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Intelligent Design Creationism is a movement dedicated to discrediting evolution and attacking the rational explanation of nature. 1 The ev...
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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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