Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts

More Expert Opinion on Junk DNA from Scientists

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The Nature issue containing the latest ENCODE Consortium papers also has a New & Views article called "Genomics: ENCODE explained...

Only Young Scientists Overthrow Old Concepts?

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Max Planck once said ... A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather becau...

A History of Science Blogging

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Blogs have been around for more than a decade but it's still not clear what purpose they serve (if any). We still don't know how to ...

The Trouble with Scientism?

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Philip Kitcher is a philosopher who specializes in the philsophy of science. He is a professor at Columbia University in New York, USA. He...

Rush Holt on Science and Critical Thinking

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I don't know Rush Holt from Adam. I'm told that he's a US Congressman from New Jersey but I find that difficult to believe. :-) ...

Dysfunctional Science

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Carl Zimmer, one of the top science writers in the world, has written an article for the New York Times with the following provocative titl...

Is Science Restricted to Methodologial Naturalism?

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Maarten Boudry, Stefaan Blancke, and Johan Braeckman have an article coming out in Science & Education on " Grist to the Mill of A...

Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

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  [Reposted from 2008.] Charles Robert Darwin was born on this day in 1809. Darwin was the greatest scientist who ever lived. In honor of ...

Was Newton the Greatest Scientist Who Ever Lived?

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  Most of us know that Charles Darwin was the greatest scientist who ever lived but one still finds the occasional misguided physicist/mathe...

Haught vs Coyne: The Letter

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As most of you know, John Haught originally tried to prevent the release of the video of their debate. You can read the history on Jerry Coy...

Haught vs Coyne: "Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?"

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John Haught and Jerry Coyne "debated" the topic of compatibility at the University of Kentucky on October 12, 2011. If you are int...

Alternative Splicing and Why IDiots Don't Understand How Science Works

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  One of the characteristics of creationists is their inability to understand how science works. For example, in biology, our knowledge of h...

Is Intelligent Design Creationism a Scientific Theory?

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  You should recall that Casey Luskin is one of those "serious science bloggers" who strikes fear into the hearts of evolutionary ...

Praise for Canadian Blood Services

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Last week I criticized the Canadian Blood Services for a stupid website called "What's Your Type?" The website associated cer...

Reading Books

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Now that I've finished writing my book, I'm back into reading. I have a pile of books that I have to get through before classes sta...

Physicists and Biologists

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I've just finished reading evolution: a view from the 21st century by James A. Shapiro. I'll write up a full review later on but ri...

USA Honors Two Biochemists and an Evolutionary Biologist

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The United States has just honored two biochemists, an evolutionary biologist, and some other scientist by issuing stamps to commemorate the...

Can Somebody Please Translate This?

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Denise O'Leary has discovered a paper that was written up in Science News Daily : Chromosomes' Big Picture: Similarities Found in G...

Polaris 25 - The Skeptical Track

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Polaris 25 will take place this coming Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (July 15-17) at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North in Richmond Hill, j...

The Accommodationist Wars: Winston vs Harris

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Robert Winston is a stem cell researcher with a strong interest in science education. Sam Harris is a neuroscientist who writes about the ...