Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Monday, March 31, 2014
A creationist illustrates the argument from ignorance while trying to understand population genetics and Neutral Theory
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I know I've said this before, but I continue to be astonished at the ignorance of creationists. Those who oppose evolution most vehement...
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Monday's Molecule #235
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Last week's molecule [ Monday's Molecule #234 ] was insect juvenile hormone. The winners are Frank Schmidt and Raul FĂ©lix de Sousa ...
Friday, March 28, 2014
God's not dead
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God's not dead is a movie that's gaining some notoriety in the USA. Here's a synopsis ... Present-day college freshman and dev...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Science education and indigenous knowledge
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Yesterday afternoon I attended a forum on Science and Mathematics teaching in Ontario schools. It was put on by The Centre for Science, Math...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Religion & Prayer in Canadian Public Spaces: Exploring Issues of Secularism, Neutrality and Equality
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The Canadian Secular Alliance is hosting a talk by Lauren Forbes tomorrow evening in rm 4171 of the Medical Sciences Building at the Univers...
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It's going up to +1 next week!
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I stole this from Ms. Sandwalk's blog. I'm pretty sure she'll mind.
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Monday, March 24, 2014
What is epigenetics?
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Several students in my class decided to write essays on epigenetics. This was very brave of them since nobody seems to have a good definitio...
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Monday's Molecule #234
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Last week's molecules [ Monday's Molecule #233 ] were oxaloacetate, ethanol, lactate, alanine, and acetyl-CoA. All of them can be sy...
Thesis defense - 40th anniversary
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Today is the 40th anniversary of my Ph.D. oral defense. 1 The event took place in the Department of Biochemical Sciences at Princeton Unive...
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Sunday, March 23, 2014
IDiots respond to the evidence for evolution of chimpanzees and humans
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Last month I explained how the difference in DNA sequence between chimps and humans corresponds to what we would predict from evolutionary t...
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Saturday, March 22, 2014
An Intelligent Design Creationist explains why chimpanzees and humans are so similar
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The genomes of chimpanzees and bonobos are remarkably similar to the human genome. In terms of sequence similarity, they are more than 98% i...
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Friday, March 21, 2014
John Wilkins writes about accommodationism
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John Wilkins has written a series of posts about the war between science and religion. Accommodating Science overview I find the argumen...
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ASBMB Core Concepts in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Homeostasis
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Theme Better Biochemistry The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) has decided that the best way to teach under...
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Science
still doesn't get it
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The latest issue of Science contains an article by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee about Dan Graur and his critique of the ENCODE publicity disaster...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014
What do Intelligent Design Creationists really think about macroevolution?
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Intelligent Design Creationism is a huge tent that shelters all sorts of creationists ranging from Young Earth Creationists to those who cou...
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