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Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Monday, October 20, 2014
How not to teach biochemistry
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One of my friends is teaching introductory biochemistry and he thinks this video (below) is worth posting on his blog [ here ]. I do not wan...
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Sunday, October 19, 2014
Razib Khan defends old-fashioned evolution theory
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Razib Khan writes at Gene Expression . He's a big fan of personal genetics and genome sequencing and, in the past, has been a defender o...
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Saturday, October 18, 2014
How to use selective hyperskepticism to debate Darwinists
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Gordon Elliot Mullings (kairosfocus) is explaining to his fellow creationists how to debate evolution. His latest post focuses on the techni...
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Do you believe that drinking carbonated beverages containing sugar will cause your telomeres to shorten and hasten your death?
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It's very difficult to teach students to be skeptical of the scientific literature and how it's reported. I read this press release ...
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Friday, October 10, 2014
Fixing CO
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fixation
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How biochemistry students can become multi-millionaires by making plants more efficient. Has someone finally succeeded? Living organisms n...
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Non-coding half of human genome unlocked
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This is another story about press releases. In this case, it's an article published by ScienceDaily : Non-coding half of human genome un...
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Thursday, October 09, 2014
Meet Joe Felsenstein
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Here's some other little known facts about Joe Felsenstein. He doesn't like Tim Hortons. He likes beaver tails. He knows a lot about...
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Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto supports quackery
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Our Dean of Medicine, Catharine Whiteside, announced recently that the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Pharmacy are entering into a j...
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Rethinking evolutionary theory
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I believe that Gould was correct when he pronounced the death of the Modern Synthesis [ Is the "Modern Synthesis" effectively dead...
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Monday, October 06, 2014
Explaining Intelligent Design Creationism: Who is the designer?
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I'm told that the Mark IX irony meter is still being tested. It's been almost two years and those of us with the older Mark VIII met...
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Bruce Alberts awarded the National Medal of Science
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The National Science Foundation (USA) selected this year's recipients of the National Medal of Science. President Obama made the announc...
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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Who are these people? I pride myself on being a generalist so I think I've heard of any important discoveries in biology. I may not alwa...
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Sunday, October 05, 2014
The ten commandments of faitheism
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An accommodationist is an atheist who generally believes that religion and science are compatible but certainly believes that other atheists...
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Friday, October 03, 2014
Metabolism first and the origin of life
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There are many ideas about the origin of life but the only ones that concern me are the scientific ones. The 21st century debate mostly invo...
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Thursday, October 02, 2014
Germany abolishes tuition fees
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There used to be a federal law in Germany that forbade charging tuition at German universities. The court decided in 2005 that it was okay t...
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