Sandwalk
Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Thursday, December 11, 2014
How to become a better teacher (not)
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Here's a video by Dr. Lodge McCammon. He has a website: lodgemccammon.com . Here are his credentials. Dr. Lodge McCammon is an educatio...
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Tuesday, December 09, 2014
On the meaning of pH optima for enzyme activity
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The students in my lab course measured the activity of trypsin at different pH's. They discovered that the enzyme was most active at a p...
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On the specificity of enzymes
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Most biochemistry students are taught that enzymes are highly specific. It's certainly true that the stereospecificity of some enzymes i...
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Using mass spec to find out how many protein-encoding genes we have
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One of the other exam questions is based on an experiment students did with an enzyme they purified. They digested the enzyme with trypsin a...
King Dick and PCR
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The students in my lab course are writing their final exam. Prior to the exam they were given 22 questions and they knew that five of them w...
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How many microRNAs?
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MicroRNAs are a special class of small functional RNA molecules. The functional RNA is only about 22 nucleotides long and most of the well-c...
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Monday, December 08, 2014
Ann Gauger keeps digging
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Ann Gauger and her creationist collaborator, Doug Axe, have been swapping amino acid residues in one kind of protein hoping to show that the...
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Friday, December 05, 2014
Why fund basic science?
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This video was the winner in the 2013 FASEB competition for "Stand Up for Science." The title was "Funding Basic Science to R...
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A creationist argument against the evolution of new enzymes
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Intelligent Design Creationists have found it impossible to make a positive case for intelligent design and the existence of a supernatural ...
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On the irrelevance of Michael Behe
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Michael Behe is one of the few Intelligent Design Creationists who have come up with reasonable, scientific, defenses of creationism. I give...
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Thursday, December 04, 2014
How to revolutionize education
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I believe that we need to change the way we teach. But not the way you probably think. Watch this video to see what's really important a...
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Saturday, November 22, 2014
For the King
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My son Gordon and his friend Colby are working on a new game called "For the King." It looks really cool. (I'm playing with an...
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Saturday, October 25, 2014
Nature
criticizes science hyperbole and bad science writing
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There's a very interesting editorial in the Oct 14, 2014 issues of Nature [see here ]. It's about a scientific paper that turned ou...
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Monday, October 20, 2014
Creationists trash Denmark
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Denmark present a real problem for many Christians. It appears to be a successful secular society that has all but abandoned extreme forms o...
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BREAKING NEWS!!! A creationist doesn't understand evolution
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Last March, I dissected the views of James Tour, a chemist who doesn't understand evolution [ A chemist who doesn't understand evolu...
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