Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Friday, February 07, 2014
Why is a brain surgeon afraid of evolution?
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Michael Egnor is a brain surgeon who doesn't like evolution. Egnor isn't a scientist so why does it matter so much to him? Listen ...
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Jason Rosenhouse agrees that evolution is a threat to religion
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Jason Rosenhouse also read the accommodationist article by Phil Plait [ The Creation of Debate ] and he also sees the problem. I argued th...
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Does an understanding of evolution help scientists understand the secrets of biology?
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You're probably wondering why I would ask a question like, "Does an understanding of evolution help scientists understand the secre...
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The real war is between rationalism and superstition
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Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy watched the debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham. He decided that both of them are wrong because the debate was ...
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Creationist scientists and bottoms of barrels
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One of the interesting quirks of creationists is their intense desire to gain credibility by finding religious scientists who agree with the...
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Tuesday, February 04, 2014
IDiots discover that RNA has secondary structure
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I suppose we should be happy whenever some IDiots manage to educate themselves but somehow I find it quite sad when it takes thirty or forty...
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Monday, February 03, 2014
Another day in New York
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Our flight was canceled. We're spending another day in New York. Anyone want to meet for a beer or dinner?
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Sunday, February 02, 2014
A quiz for those of you who think you understand Intelligent Design Creationism
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One of the great ironies of the Intelligent Design Creationist movement is that its proponents don't understand evolution and they don...
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Saturday, February 01, 2014
New friends in New York
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Pete Seeger (1919 - 2014)
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Pete Seeger is dead. That means something to those of us who grew up in the 1960s. It was a time when opposition to war was so strong and s...
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Monday, January 27, 2014
Seven things you need to know about evolution
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John Hawks is a pretty cool guy. He studies anthropology with a special emphasis on the genetics of human evolution over the past million ye...
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Monday's Molecule #230
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Last week's molecule was cholesterol [ Monday's Molecule #229 ]. The figure shows how the molecule would look in a lipid bilayer (me...
Friday, January 24, 2014
Territorial demarcation and the meaning of science
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Massimo Pigliucci doesn't get enough respect. He's upset by the "New Atheists" who place a great deal of emphasis on the s...
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Changing high school education: Equinox Summit and Learning 2030
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I recently re-watched a program on The Agenda about high school education and what needs to be done to make it better. The broadcast was fr...
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
Has John Brockman's stable lost its edge?
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John Brockman is a famous literary agent. Over the years he has assembled a group of intellectuals, and people who aspire to be intellectua...
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