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Dec 6, 2009, 1:02 pm
It appears that one of my previous posts was rather confusing for some readers (see this and this, also this for rebuttal). In the post “The Junk DNA myth strikes again (next up: media hype)&#... Comment - Like
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Dec 2, 2009, 5:46 pm
The latest issue of Evolution: Education and Outreach is now online:
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Editorial
Mick Wycoff
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How Can English Tell the Story?
Douglas Reed Eldredge
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Nov 25, 2009, 4:45 pm
Check out this nonsense from an article in The Toronto Star, which for some reason decides to pit the Bible against The Origin of Species as works of literature.
You can spot the difference in the qu... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 9:41 pm
If you managed to get an extra copy of the “special edition” of the Origin that was handed out on US and Canadian campuses, I would appreciate receiving one!
WANT:
Please send me a speci... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 12:08 pm
Darwin’s views are often misrepresented to the point of caricature, as we all know, but there have also been plenty of examples of literal caricature of Darwin in the popular media. I recently ... Comment - Like
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Nov 24, 2009, 11:45 am
Today’s the day! 150 years ago, Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. If you haven’t re... Comment - Like
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Nov 19, 2009, 7:56 am
If you have been enjoying Microbial Art, I suggest that you sign up for the feed because it is now set up to showcase artwork contributed by users.
Microbial Art — now with user generated conte... Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2009, 2:25 pm
After linking to the NCSE’s mocking “Don’t Diss Darwin” site, I sent them an email asking if they might add a link to Evolver Zone (which has long had a prominent link to NCSE ... Comment - Like
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Nov 18, 2009, 7:38 am
The good news, there will be free copies of On the Origin of Species handed out at various universities, including mine. The bad news, it comes with a tragically silly introduction by creationist ba... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2009, 11:17 am
Jay Hosler is an Associate Professor of Biology at Juniata College and a very skilled cartoonist who writes comic-style books that are meant to entertain as well as educate. One of them, Optical Allu... Comment - Like
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Nov 13, 2009, 10:37 am
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Where Am I? game. That was fun. And now, the answer…
Where? (i.e., here and here)
Why?
Where am I? – The answer. is a post from Genomicron. Comment - Like
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Nov 12, 2009, 5:55 pm
Last clue before I reveal the answer!
Where am I? – 3 is a post from Genomicron. Comment - Like
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Nov 11, 2009, 1:31 pm
A slightly easier clue this time…
Where am I? – 2 is a post from Genomicron. Comment - Like
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Nov 10, 2009, 1:49 pm
Easy question… where am I (not a trick — I just took this picture)?
Where am I? is a post from Genomicron. Comment - Like
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Nov 6, 2009, 7:20 am
From the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology comes a press release describing a paper in Nature about bacterial evolution…
Bacteria Expect the Unexpected
Organisms ensure the survival of... Comment - Like
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Nov 5, 2009, 12:57 pm
Lots of genomes going to be sequenced. Some of the members of the group are colleagues at Guelph. Very cool. That is all.
Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10 000 Vertebra... Comment - Like
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Oct 30, 2009, 1:41 pm
You denizens of the science blogosphere probably will have heard about the, shall we say, “questionable” article by Donald Williamson (and communicated by Lynn Margulis) in PNAS, in which ... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2009, 4:17 pm
From today’s Nature, an editorial entitled Mind the spin:
Scientists — and their institutions — should resist the ever-present temptation to hype their results.
…the temptation for s... Comment - Like
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Oct 23, 2009, 1:54 pm
I am happy to report that my latest distraction project is now live!
Visit www.microbialart.com for lots of intriguing artworks created using living microorganisms.
Microbial Art is alive! is a post... Comment - Like
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Oct 22, 2009, 8:45 pm
Some more creations by students in my lab:
Archaeopteryx
Galapagos Islands
Skull
Primate phylogeny
Microbe art rocks. is a post from Genomicron. Comment - Like
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Oct 21, 2009, 8:07 pm
David Sloan Wilson, author of various books — most recently Evolution for Everyone — and a proponent of group selection, has started up a blog at ScienceBlogs entitled Evolution for Everyo... Comment - Like
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Oct 21, 2009, 7:58 pm
No paper out yet, and not even any details made available, but this looks interesting:
Reduced genome works fine with 2000 chunks missing
To put a figure on how much of our DNA is non-essential, Vr... Comment - Like
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Oct 20, 2009, 2:55 pm
Yep, according to a study coming out in PNAS and supported by NESCent.
(As usual, the news comes out before the PNAS article is actually available, so I can’t comment on the study).
Are Humans... Comment - Like
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Oct 18, 2009, 6:29 pm
As I mentioned in my previous post, my students and I have been experimenting with creating art from living colonies of bacteria:
I don’t think this is a common art form (though it’s one ... Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2009, 10:02 am
From Oct. 9-30, the University of Guelph and Ed Video are hosting a special art exhibit entitled “This View of Life: Evolutionary Art for the Year of Darwin“. It was organized by professo... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2009, 9:11 pm
You may notice a slightly different URL for the blog. I have moved to WordPress and away from Blogger. Other than the new look, you shouldn’t notice much difference — the feed is the sa... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2009, 6:47 pm
Genomicron will be moving to a new address soon. It will mostly be the same, with all the posts moved (and old ones redirected, if I can figure it out), comments and links preserved, and so on. It w... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2009, 9:09 pm
I liked it.
Overall, I think the Discovery Channel did a good job of capturing the painstaking work that goes into scientific research, in this case spanning more than 15 years from discovery to pub... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2009, 9:09 pm
I liked it.
Overall, I think the Discovery Channel did a good job of capturing the painstaking work that goes into scientific research, in this case spanning more than 15 years from discovery to pub... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2009, 9:56 am
Some instructors have lamented the challenges of teaching students who are constantly logged-on, plugged-in, facebooked, etc.
Guess what? I like teaching the iGeneration*. I enjoy using YouTube cli... Comment - Like
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Oct 12, 2009, 9:56 am
Some instructors have lamented the challenges of teaching students who are constantly logged-on, plugged-in, facebooked, etc.
Guess what? I like teaching the iGeneration*. I enjoy using YouTube cli... Comment - Like
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Oct 8, 2009, 7:48 am
The folks over at Science and Religion Today were interested in our study on graduate student conceptions of evolution, and asked me to give some thoughts on the question "How detailed an understandi... Comment - Like
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Oct 5, 2009, 7:26 pm
The Journal of Effective teaching has a special issue on evolution education.
Journal of Effective Teaching
Volume 9, Issue 2, September 2009 ... Comment - Like
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Oct 2, 2009, 4:39 pm
I did a brief radio interview with our campus station CFRU on today's The Press Conference about our BioScience paper on graduate student understanding of evolution. Enjoy. Comment - Like
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Oct 2, 2009, 5:45 am
I am the proud recipient of a "Worst New Omics Word Award" from Jonathan Eisen, who blogs at Tree of Life. Usually these go to actual 'omics words (so far: diseasome, ethomics, and museomics). I... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2009, 12:38 pm
In my recent article on Understanding natural selection in E:EO, I reviewed a large number of studies that examined conceptions of evolution among students from the high school to undergraduate level,... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2009, 11:14 am
Tomorrow's Science will be a special issue reporting tons of new information on the fossil hominid Ardipithecus ramidus ("Ardi"), which is really exciting (though not as much as Darwinius, which w... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2009, 9:09 am
Interesting brief post by Kiki Sanford on the results of word association analyses using the term "science". Here is a Wordle cloud showing the responses of 126 people when asked what comes to mind w... Comment - Like
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Sep 30, 2009, 8:04 pm
I don't watch CSI. Ok, that's not totally true or this post wouldn't exist. I almost never watch it. I did catch a re-run while I was eating lunch on the weekend, an episode called "Ov... Comment - Like
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Sep 30, 2009, 6:44 pm
Sometimes it is helpful to have a catchy word to describe one's type of research. I think that's why "omics" words are so popular -- they encapsulate a complex combination of approaches (usua... Comment - Like
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Sep 26, 2009, 1:24 pm
I have been a CrackBerry user for several years, and am rarely seen without it in my hand or on my belt. Last week I traded my 8700 for the Bold (9000) -- wow, what a good move! The Bold is faster, ... Comment - Like
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Sep 24, 2009, 4:12 pm
A commenter on my other blog at ScientificBlogging (basically a subset of posts from this one) seems to have objected to the claim that evolutionary science makes predictions.
gimme 5 examples of pred... Comment - Like
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Sep 24, 2009, 1:35 pm
Today I gave my lecture on mammal diversity and evolution in the 4th year vertebrate course. We have been talking a fair bit about paraphyletic groups, common vs. scientific names, and so on. Within... Comment - Like
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Sep 21, 2009, 8:38 pm
Just came across this nice video by C0nc0rdance summarizing the work of Susumu Ohno and the original concept of junk DNA.
(Oh, and it gets bonus points for using one of my figures!) Comment - Like
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Sep 19, 2009, 7:11 am
To the list of special issues dealing with the evolution of eyes (E:EO, Phil Trans R Soc B), you can now add one on nervous systems in Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
Nature Reviews NeuroscienceVol. 10, ... Comment - Like
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Sep 18, 2009, 8:08 pm
This is too funny. A website called Kill or Cure? has been compiling links to science stories in The Daily Mail (UK) and their apparent "ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into... Comment - Like
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Sep 18, 2009, 7:53 pm
Here's the abstract of a paper set to be published in Molecular Biology and Evolution. Now, I think this kind of study is interesting and important. But it's predictable that they start out ... Comment - Like
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