I am a cell biologist working in Toronto, Canada. I'm a reformed chemotaxis (cell migration) junky who now studies lipid biology, proteases, apoptosis (cell death) and atherosclerosis.
Against science
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I’m not a scientist, I’m not even really good at math, and the only science
I took after high school was a biology course. I did well in it… but I have
no ...
What Evolutionary Biologists Do
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This meme has been going around. Recently someone did What Scientists Do, so…it’s time for evolutionary biology. Obviously YMMV if you’re not an evohacker, b...
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
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Reconstruction of Permian Forest from Inner Mongolia (Jun Wang *et al*.
2012)
OK I'm back after a long hiatus due to extensive travel (yay) and work
(boo) ...
Thank You, Thank You Very Much!
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The Alliance Defense Fund, you may know, is representing David Coppedge in
his suit against Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Coppedge was a
computer t...
Work-Life Separation and Institutional Funding
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I met with a friend this week who has a job. He’s working on a side project
with a friend. They both hope to leave their jobs in the near future to
work on...
Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski strikes again
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I was originally going to write about an amazing article that appeared in
the NEJM today, but then, as happens all too often, something more
compelling c...
Friday Science Review: March 2, 2012
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Parkinson’s disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative
diseases. However, current treatments e.g. dopamine precursors, monoamine
oxide inhibi...
Sailing Distant Seas
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Horses have a time-honored place on interstellar colony planets. As with so
much involving space, plausible or otherwise, I first encountered this
image i...
Rosie Redfield Talks About Arsenic
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Way to go Rosie! We'll soon turn you into a biochemist! I love it when you
say the textbooks are still right.
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Climate Change Denial in Canada’s Capital
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This week, the Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism at
the Centre for Inquiry Canada released a damning report of climate change
denial t...
The golden arse beam method.
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Ben Goldacre, The Guardian, Saturday 9 July 2011 Since I was a teenager,
whenever I have a pivotal life event coming – an exam, or an interview –
I perform...
Common Sense Atheism: The Archive
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Common Sense Atheism has closed its doors. Comments are turned off and
there will be no new posts. I will keep the debates page updated, so feel
free to no...
Science literacy is good for society
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Jan 31, 2012
David Suzuki
Straight.com
http://www.straight.com/article-596081/vancouver/david-suzuki-science-literacy-good-society
It’s Natural!
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I think I need to switch radio stations. If you remember, last summer, the
station I was listening to on my weekly drive to Downstate Univ. was
carrying ad...
Sorry
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I checked my Woopra stats the other day and noticed that there are still a
few people checking in here from time to time. And I do appreciate that.
But I s...
Comment Spam at Blogger Getting Out of Hand
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I've changed my comment policy slightly. I'm enabling comment moderation in
posts that are older than 365 days.
This morning I got spammed in a way I've n...
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