Saturday, September 27, 2008

Q: Where would you find Darwin in a McDonalds?

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A: In Darwin's hometown Shrewsbury , in the basement of the McDonald's in Pride Hill [postcode: SY1 1DQ ], where you can dine enclo...

The evolutionary tourist in Edinburgh

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The Rough Guide to Evolution contains an evolutionary tourist guide, with guides to the places associated with Darwin in Shrewsbury, Cambrid...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

Return of Heroes: the evolutionary cult show

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According to Wired News , Heroes returns to US TV screens today, with the start of the third series (not sure how long it will take to reac...
Sunday, September 21, 2008

Palinology versus Pythonology

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Further to earlier discussion of Sarah Palin, I just came across this YouTube video, which proposes that McCain picked the wrong Palin, and...

Cancer: a microcosm of evolution

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With the imminent arrival of a next-generation sequencing capability at the University of Birmingham (sequences 100x faster and cheaper than...
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Friday, September 19, 2008

Darwin's smelly rude bits

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The traditional image of Darwin is the respectable elderly gent with the flowing beard and balding head. But he was once young and full of h...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

Evolution rocks!

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The Rough Guide to Evolution contains a whole section on music related to Darwin and evolution, from classical to hip-hop, and features the ...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Dispatches from the cutting edge of flagellar biology, part 2

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Following on from my previous post , the second set of take-away messages from Keiichi Namba's presentation last week all centre on the ...
Monday, September 15, 2008

From Bill Bailey to Alfred Russel Wallace

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UK readers will know Bill Bailey as a veteran participant in the TV shows QI ,  Never Mind the Buzzcocks and Have I Got News for You --th...
Sunday, September 14, 2008

Dispatches from the cutting edge of flagellar biology, part 1

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Last week I attended the third UK type III secretion meeting, held at the University of Bristol. As with the two previous meetings, it encom...

The Speckled Monster: the eradication of smallpox

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Since the spring of 2006, I have supplied scientific advice and ideas to a collaboration between the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Think...
Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Palin-ological scatology

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The similarity between my surname and that of the US Republican vice-presidential candidate has not escaped my attention. I see all the bad ...
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Snowball Earth and the Cambrian Explosion?

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A colleague just sent me a link to this presentation on the SciVee website (a kind of YouTube for scientists): The genetic response to Snow...

And God created E. coli K-12

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As a medical microbiologist by training, I find it amusing and frustrating in equal measure that many of those working on E. coli in the ba...
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Monday, September 8, 2008

Defend and extend the theory of evolution!

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I have finally finished the book! Over the weekend I spent an exhausting 16 hours or so compiling the index (a very tedious but important ta...
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