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Category Archives: Research Blogging
Anti-GM Food Proponents and Research
Here’s a video that a friend of mine linked to on youtube. It’s short, less than 3 minutes. And more interestingly comments are disabled. There’s probably a very good reason that comments are disabled… Because the statements made in the … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Culture, Environment, Research Blogging, Science, Skepticism, Society
Tagged genetically modified food, GM corn, GM soybeans, Patrick Holden, Roundup
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Work Hard, Get the Rewards You Deserve
This is a fascinating story. Dr. Dan Shechtman is a materials science professor. In the early 80s, he was working at John Hopkins University when he discovered something cool. An aluminum and manganese alloy formed ordered structures, but did not … Continue reading
Posted in Chemistry, Research Blogging, Science, Skepticism
Tagged Chemistry, creationism, Dan Shechtman, evidence, Nobel Prize, Quasicrystal, research, science
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Your Inner Fish – Chapter 8
Making Scents The next 3 chapters (8,9, and 10) are further, very specific, examples of how common descent directly affects systems in our bodies. All mammals, reptiles, birds, and amphibians are descended from a common ancestor that had some traits. … Continue reading
Your Inner Fish – Chapter 7
It’s been a long time in coming, but here’s Chapter 7. First let me say that these reviews are becoming more infrequently. There are several reasons, but not least of these is that the chapters are becoming much more involved … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Book Review, Creationism / ID, Education, evolution, Origins of Life, Research Blogging, Science
Tagged bodies, evolution, Neil Shubin, Origin of bodies, science, Your Inner Fish
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Timeline of Creationism and Science
Over the last couple of days, I’ve been considering the history and accomplishments of science as compared to those for creationism. It took a while, but I have created a timeline of accomplishments and important historical points for both science … Continue reading
Direct Conversion of Heat to Electricity – Coming Soon!
The direct conversion of heat to electricity is extremely difficult, but would improve the electricity production of the world by a considerable margin. Most of the systems we have for generating electricity do capture the work done as heat flows … Continue reading
It Is NOT Official – Very Little Evidence Links Bee Deaths to Cell Phones
This is a fascinating case of what happens when you DON’T check the original sources. I know, this has happened to me as a blogger. It’s Official – Cell Phones are Killing Bees Of course, their article came from Mobile … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Culture, Environment, Research Blogging, Science, Skepticism, Society
Tagged bees, CCD, cell-phones, cell-phones kill bees, poor fact-checking, science
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Evolution, Cancers, and Purpose
I wasn’t going to cover this article originally, since erv did a while back ago. However, a recent discussion got me to thinking about it from another perspective. This will be a teaching article, so please allow me a bit … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Evolution, evolution, Research Blogging, Science
Tagged cancer, science
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Origins of Life: General RNA Polymerases
Yesterday, I discovered a new set of studies that I had not previously known about. I may write about all of them, but I definitely want to talk about this particular study for two reasons. The first reason is that … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Evolution, Origins of Life, Research Blogging, Science
Tagged biochemistry, Origin of Life, ribozyme, RNA, science
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Origins of Life – Amino Acids and the Triplet Codon
One question that always seems to come from the anti-science crowd when discussing the origin of life is, “Where did the genetic code come from?”. Scientists will often point out the simple fact that every living thing on the planet … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Evolution, Origins of Life, Research Blogging, Science
Tagged biochemistry, Origin of Life, science
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Cassandra's Tears 