AAAAAARG I am kicking myself for missing this today!
But if you have time tomorrow, there will be live webcasts of the presentations at a conference at Rockefeller University... on 'From RNA to Humans: A Symposium on Evolution'.
AAAAAAAAAH! LOOK AT THIS SCHEDULE!!
Someone punch me for missing those talks this morning...
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Are they not archiving the talks?
I've class all tomorrow so like you I won't be able to listen in live.. crap.
Oh yea! I have a long day at the microscope tomorrow so I'll be turning in. Thanks for the heads up!
Pow!!
You're welcome!
Well, ok, but this is going to hurt you a lot more than it's going to hurt me.... =)
Likin the new diggs.
Cheers.
I gather I should be embarrassed by not knowing any of those names ...
Will you be giving us an executive summary?
I agree with Sili up above. Is there any way those of us outside the biology/genetics fields could get an executive summary about the speakers and their topics?
Can't listen in myself, but I have a feeling it would all be over my head anyways, so a summary is likely my only hope for having a clue about what is presented.
Here are the bios provided by the Rockefeller.
http://www.rockefeller.edu/evolution/bio.php
Damn, I should have taken a sick day today. Bummed that I missed Cavalli-Sforza...
Hi all,
Just came from the talks (I went both days.). The morning session was chaired by American Museum of Natural History invertebrate paleontologist Niles Eldredge; the afternoon session by Dr. Eugenie Scott, Executive Director, National Center for Science Education. I was especially impressed with the talks in the afternoon, but both sessions were quite fascinating (The same is true for yesterday's which culminated in a fine presentation by University of Chicago evolutionary geneticist Jerry Coyne, in which he "trashed" Intelligent Design, relying on choice comments by one of my "pals", Bill Dembski.).
Regards,
John