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Finals week is upon me, and I should be working on piles of paper work right now, but I need a break … and I have to vent some frustration with the popular press coverage of an important scientific...
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Posted on May 10, 2008 12:32 PM • 132 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There's a clumsy little two-step move creationists like to make: first, point to dissent in the scientific community over real and often interesting issues at the edge of knowledge, and second, swap in their dissent over basics, like common descent,...
Posted on May 7, 2008 3:40 PM • 113 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I must urge you to steal buy this book: Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll). The description makes it sound perfect. Laboratory work is the essence of chemistry, and measurement is the essence of...
Posted on May 1, 2008 2:57 PM • 95 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My last Seed column is online, which reminds me (as if I weren't uncomfortably aware already) that I have to finish up the next one today, which actually isn't the next one, which is already done and submitted, but the...
Posted on April 30, 2008 8:20 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The title gets the principal objection of any creationist out of the way: yes, this population of Podarcis sicula is still made up of lizards, but they're a different kind of lizard now. Evolution works. Here's the story: in...
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Posted on April 23, 2008 10:55 AM • 324 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There in the foaming welter of email constantly flooding my in-box was an actual, real, good, sincere question from someone who didn't understand how chromosome numbers could change over time — and he also asked with enough detail that I...
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Posted on April 21, 2008 10:43 AM • 196 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Revere is thinking about how to grow meat without the animal. It's a cool idea that's been floating around in science fiction for a while now, but, well, of course it has problems, and Revere notes a couple. The two...
Posted on April 16, 2008 12:20 PM • 184 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm busy preparing my lecture for genetics this morning, in which I'm going to be talking about some chromosomal disorders … and I noticed that this summary of Fragile-X syndrome that was on the old site hadn't made it...
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Posted on April 14, 2008 11:49 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Jay Hosler has a new book out, Optical Allusions(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll). If you're familiar with his other books, Clan Apis(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll) and The Sandwalk Adventures(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), you know what to expect: a comic book that takes its science seriously. Hosler has a fabulous knack...
Posted on April 14, 2008 10:29 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Look: it's possibly the world's most annoying, boring video. Turn the sound down, it's a car driving in traffic with a siren howling. Of course, if you look a little bit more closely, you might notice…nobody is driving! This is...
Posted on April 12, 2008 1:33 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Check it out: it's yet another transitional form, a 92 million year old snake with two hindlimbs. Cool! Just last week I was told that none of these things exist....
Posted on April 10, 2008 9:34 AM • 90 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Since I was sent this photo from the evo-devo conference by Kevin Emerson, I couldn't resist: this is the aftermath of two scientists duking it out in an intellectual arena. Greg Wray, left, in the blue "Exons, Schmexons" t-shirt; Jerry...
Posted on April 8, 2008 10:19 AM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
[Since I had to fly away early this morning and missed all these talks, I had to rely on regular commenter DanioPhD to fill in the gaps … so here's her summary:] This morning's final series of talks each focused...
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Posted on April 6, 2008 10:10 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm going to get off a quick summary of this afternoon's talks, then I have to run down to the poster session to find out what the grad students have been doing. Are we having fun yet? I'm going...
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Posted on April 5, 2008 11:35 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My brain is most wonderfully agitated, which is the good thing about going to these meetings. Scientists are perverse information junkies who love to get jarred by new ideas and strong arguments, and meetings like this are intense and challenging....
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