Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Friday, May 16, 2014
The Provost and the President of the University of Saskatchewan made a mistake
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The decision to fire Robert Buckingham gets more and more interesting every day. On Wednesday, the Provost fired Buckingham and told him tha...
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Thursday, May 15, 2014
Robert Buckingham rehired at the University of Saskatchewan
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Apparently, some sane person at the University of Saskatchewan had a talk with the President and informed her that she was in very deep doo-...
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Why shouldn't you use PowerPoint slides in your classes?
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Chris Buddle of McGill University (Montreal, Canada) thinks that instructors should stop putting your Powerpoint slides on-line . He makes...
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Ilene Busch-Vishniac should resign immediately as President of the University of Saskatchewan
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The university of Saskatchewan fired Robert Buckingham the other day. Buckingham was Executive Director (Dean) of the School of Public Healt...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
What did the ENCODE Consortium say in 2012?
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When the ENCODE Consortium published their results in September 2012, the popular press immediately seized upon the idea that most of our ge...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Happy Birthday to Me!
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I don't normally celebrate my birthday in public but I made the mistake of putting my birth date on my Facebook page so lots of people a...
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Monday, May 12, 2014
Monday's Molecule #240
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Last week's molecule (right) [ Monday's Molecule #239 ] was 2-carboxy-D-arabinitol 1-phosphate. It's an inhibitor of the enzyme...
Friday, May 09, 2014
How does
Nature
deal with the ENCODE publicity hype that it created?
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Let's briefly review what happened in September 2012 when the ENCODE Consortium published their results (mostly in Nature ). Here'...
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The Case for Junk DNA: The onion test
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I draw your attention to a new paper on junk DNA by my friends Alex Palazzo and Ryan Gregory (Palazzo and Gregory, 2014). You should read ...
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Thursday, May 08, 2014
More primordial soup nonsense
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I just discovered a new paper on the origin of life (Keller et al. 2014). The authors think they are looking at the first primitive biochemi...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2014
US Supreme Court says that prayer at town council meetings is allowed
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According to Friendly Atheist , there's been a Supreme Court Disaster: In a 5-4 Ruling, Justices Approve of Christian Prayers in Greece,...
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Answering creationist questions about Neutral Theory
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Many of the creationists are just learning about Neutral Theory for the first time in their lives. (The basics were published in the late 19...
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Get Science Right (in Canada)
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The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has launched a campaign to alert the public about changes in science policy and fundi...
Monday, May 05, 2014
Monday's Molecule #239
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Last week's molecules (right) [ Monday's Molecule #238 ] were correctly identified by Dean Bruce (again) who wrote ... ... it is 3-...
Saturday, May 03, 2014
Michael White's misleading history of the human gene
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There are many ways of defining the gene but only some of them are reasonable in the 20th and 21st centuries [ What Is a Gene? ]. By the 198...
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