Posts Tagged by Suzan Mazur
At Oscillations: How we go from a sphere to a torus
| December 10, 2018 | Posted by News under Cell biology, Embryology |
At her blog, Oscillations, Suzan Mazur reports on the lecture series Simons Center for Geometry and Physics has been hosting at Stony Brook University, on Nonequilibrium Physics in Biology: Among the more interesting presenters is Kim Sneppen, a professor of complex systems and biophysics at Neils Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, who addresses the diversity of […]
Landmark origin of life conference videos resurface
| October 30, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life |
From Suzan Mazur, author of The Origin of Life Circus and The Paradigm Shifters: Overthrowing ‘the Hegemony of the Culture of Darwin’, links to some vintage films of origin of life conferences funded by chemist Harry Lonsdale (1932–2014): Before he died Harry Lonsdale sent me a package with his book on politics—Running: Politics, Power, and […]
Çatalhöyük, a window on life 9,500 years ago
| October 9, 2018 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Religion |
At her blog, Oscillations, Suzan Mazur reflects on what we have learned to date (it is only 5% excavated). One of the issues is whether there was any religion at Çatalhöyük: Suzan Mazur: I’m asking this because Templeton has come under fire for putting its fingers all over science from the investigation of the origin […]
Neutron scattering to help with study of cell membranes
| September 25, 2018 | Posted by News under Cell biology, Intelligent Design |
At one time, the cell membrane was thought of as something like a building block made of lipids. Suzan Mazur interviews Swedish physical chemist Tommy Nylander about the study of living cells through neutron scattering (to avoid contamination, the Swedes do the studies without nuclear power or mercury) at Oscillations: Tommy Nylander:I’m very interested in […]
At Nature: New evolution book represents “radical” new perspective
| August 2, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life |
Including things you didn’t know about Archaea discoverer, Carl Woese. From a review of The Tangled Tree:A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen (Simon & Schuster, 2018): In The Tangled Tree, celebrated science writer David Quammen tells perhaps the grandest tale in biology: how scientists used gene sequencing to elucidate the evolutionary relationships […]
Osaka Group structuralist, 97, publishes new book
| July 28, 2018 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Plants |
With an interesting chapter on carnivorous plants. At Oscillations, Suzan Mazur takes note of the new book by structuralist Antonio Lima de Faria, now an emeritus professor at Lund University, whom she describes as “one of the Osaka Group of ‘structuralists,’ whose other members included Brian Goodwin, Mae-Wan Ho, Peter Saunders et al.” The main theme of Periodic Tables Unifying Living Organisms at […]
Virus expert highlights the conflict over whether viruses are alive
| July 25, 2018 | Posted by News under Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Viruses |
From science writer Suzan Mazur, at Oscillations, interviewing Bogdan Dragnea, who studies the physical structure of viruses via spectrosopy: Suzan Mazur: Do you consider viruses live organisms since viruses can recognize their targets, attach, and infect their hosts—most viruses using a tail spike and needle [see following Parent lab image]—and as you’ve noted, they can […]
