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Scientists Search for an Answer to Why do We Sleep?For many of us, sleep is a precious gift, akin to coffee, that was gifted to us early on in our evolution. But scientists have long been completely baffled as to just why we sleep, and just what constitutes sleep anyway. A new study attempts to address just why we sleep. ... |
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Is Molecular Evolution a Good Way to Teach High School Students About Evolution? [Mike the Mad Biologist]In the midst of the kerfuffle about atheism, religion, and teaching evolution in high school, the NY Times article made me wonder if focusing part of the curriculum on molecular evolution would be a better way of teaching evolutionary biology* (and ScienceBlogling Sandra describes some good ways of ... |
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IDiots and ERVs [erv]Over a year ago, I made a short series of posts addressing Creationists and endogenous retroviruses (Old ERV, New ERV). Casey Luskin is evidently unaware of this series, as he managed to smack his loverly, loverly face into a couple of them in his recent blog post 'news release' at Evolution N... |
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The Darwin Lectures by Radio New Zealand National150 years ago, Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution were first announced in public - to a meeting of the Linnean Society in London. Oddly, almost no one noticed! ... |
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Why Print Is Not Dead, Unintentionally Intelligent Design Edition [Journalismism]The story about a Georgia school's struggle to teach evolution in Jesusland may be the most emailed story on the Times website right now, but you had to read it on paper to get the full experience. (Well, this time you can just click for our scan.) ... |
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Gentle approach could cripple drug-resistant bugsTaking a softly, softly approach to wiping out infection might be the way to beat the evolution of drug resistance in bacteria ... |

