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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, October 03, 2013
Science Doesn't Have All the Answers but Does It Have All the Questions?
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Jerry Coyne has been following the debate between Steven Pinker and Leon Wieseltier on the topic of scientism [see The final round: Pinker v...
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What Do You Do When All the Reviews Are Bad?
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Charles Marshall has reviewed Darwin's Doubt in last week's issue of Science . The title says it all: When Prior Belief Trumps Scho...
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Stephen Meyer Says that "Homology" Is a Problem in Molecular Evolution
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Stephen Meyer argues (in Darwin's Doubt ) that the Cambrian explosion cannot be explained by evolution but it can be explained by Intell...
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Tuesday, October 01, 2013
The Many Definitions of Evolution
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I have a favorite definition of evolution [ What Is Evolution? ]. It's a definition based on population genetics and it helps us to deci...
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Biologist Sean Carroll in Toronto
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Biologist Sean Carroll of evo-devo fame was in Toronto last Friday as part of the 2013 Science Festival. I had a chance to talk to him in th...
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Monday, September 30, 2013
The Problems With
The Selfish Gene
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Lots of people fail to understand that the "selfish gene" is a metaphor. They criticize Richard Dawkins for promoting the idea tha...
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Monday's Molecule #217
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Last week's molecule was the 5′ cap structure on eukaryotic mRNA. Lot's of people got it right. The winners were Mark Sturtevant and...
Friday, September 27, 2013
Dark Matter Is Real, Not Just Noise or Junk
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UPDATE: The title is facetious. I don't believe for one second that most so-called "dark matter" has a function. In fact, the...
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The Extraordinary Human Epigenome
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We learned a lot about genes and gene expression in the second half of the 20th century. We learned that genes are transcribed and we have a...
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Transcription Initiation Sites: Do You Think This Is Reasonable?
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I'm interested in how scientists read the scientific literature and in how they distinguish good science from bad science. I know that w...
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Thursday, September 26, 2013
Stephen Meyer Says That Constant Mutation Rates Are a "Questionable Assumption"
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Stephen Meyer is trying to make the case that the primitive animals of the Cambrian explosion really did arise suddenly as fully formed and ...
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2013 Toronto Science Festival
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The University of Toronto is sponsoring a "science" festival with three talks tomorrow and Saturday. You have to buy tickets at: ...
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Hypocrisy
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Chris DiCarlo talked about fallacies in our class today. We're trying to teach students how to recognize the most important logical fall...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013
An "Atheist" Defends Intelligent Design Creationism
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Bradley Monton is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. On his website he says he specializ...
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Monday, September 23, 2013
Monday's Molecule #216
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Last week's molecules were guanine and adenine. Everyone should have known these structures but only undergraduate Zhimeng Yu got it rig...
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