Daniel O. posted an article on Ego sum Daniel - Nov 24, 2009, 11:14 am
... On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was published. A momentous day for humanity to commemorate, no question, and one of the reasons this year is celebrated worldwide as Darwin y...
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Daniel O. posted an article on Ego sum Daniel - Nov 5, 2009, 5:46 am
I just went and got vaccinated for the influenza A/H1N1/swine flu here at work. They're skipping schools and universities ahead of everyone else seeing as most of us here are young people who have...
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Daniel O. posted an article on Ego sum Daniel - Oct 7, 2009, 5:29 am
It's yet another great Nobel season for biology! This year's Nobel prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath for the isolation and crystalli...
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Daniel O. posted an article on Ego sum Daniel - Oct 5, 2009, 2:25 am
It's that time of the year again! Today at 11.30 local time the 2009 Nobel prize in Medicine or Physiology will be announced. My favorite candidates for the past few years have been Elizabeth Blac...
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Daniel O. posted an article on Ego sum Daniel - Sep 30, 2009, 1:47 pm
Who wouldn't be completely smitten with this lovely little critter! The latest issue of Nature has published the description of what is billed as the oldest feathered dinosaur, Anchiornis huxleyi...
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Daniel O. posted an article on Ego sum Daniel - Sep 23, 2009, 2:33 am
A while ago Greg Laden (of the always readable Greg Laden's Blog) posted a list of "falsehoods": misunderstandings in biology that are so pervasive in common knowledge/the media/even schools, that...
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Daniel O. posted an article on Ego sum Daniel - Aug 27, 2009, 8:07 am
After having headed the efforts to transplant a bacterial genome from one species to the other and to create a synthetic bacterial genome from scratch, Craig Venter predicts to finally have a syntheti...
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Daniel O. posted an article on Ego sum Daniel - Aug 18, 2009, 2:11 pm
>> This post is slightly delayed since, you know, stuff gets in the way. But better late than never. A comment on my post "lack of evidence for arctic root "natural medicine" raised a few points tha...
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Daniel O. posted an article on Ego sum Daniel - Aug 17, 2009, 8:07 am
Some time ago I watched a documentary called Lord of the Ants (clips available online) about the brilliant Ed O. Wilson, a born Naturalist whom I've also had the pleasure of hearing in person, an...
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Daniel O. posted an article on Ego sum Daniel - Jul 25, 2009, 10:26 am
So yeah... I came home from Hong Kong like a month ago, but I've neglected writing about it. I've had a lot of work to get ahead on, which is exciting, and right now I'm out at my parents&...
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