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Myers-Dawkins-Expelled-gate: Mooney and Nisbet, Framers of the Absurd, Have Stepped Over a Line and Owe an Apology
Posted by Greg Laden on March 24, 2008 Myers? Myers? …. Myers? ….. Myers? (He’s not here, Ben … Your producer threw him out.)You know about the incredibly ironic dust up, whereby Expelled! producers kicked PZ myers out of line at a pre-release showing, but failed to notice that Richard Dawkins was standing right next to him. The evidence suggests that this major…
PZ Myers Expelled, Gains Sainthood
Posted by Greg Laden on March 21, 2008 As you have undoubtedly heard, a group of evolutionary biologists and evolutionary biology supporters attended a showing of the movie Expelled, in the Twin Cities, last night. This group included the very famous Richard Dawkins and the only slightly less famous PZ Myers. PZ and Richard, in fact, were together in line, along with PZ’s…
Minnesota al Qaeda Attack Thwarted by Patriot … or maybe not
Posted by Greg Laden on March 1, 2008 Americans revel in violence. We have an excuse for almost any kind of violent or oppressive act. When a young boy poking around, on a dare, in what he thought was an abandoned house was shot dead by my neighbor last year, the boy was vilified as a threat and the trigger happy crazy guy…
Good Morning from Minnesota…
Posted by Greg Laden on January 15, 2008 While Duluth is having a balmy morning, just over 10F, here in the twin cities we are hovering a few below zero. Despite the cold, the ice is simply not as thick as people expect it to be. Bradley Erikson’s truck went through the ice on Leech Lake last night. Bradley got out of the…
Fellow Minnesotans! We Made it to a Time Top Ten List!
Posted by Greg Laden on December 10, 2007 We’re Number Five for the Bridge Collapse: Bridges failed this year in China and in Guinea, killing 64 and 70 people, respectively. But the disaster that really grabbed U.S. headlines was the collapse of the I-35 bridge in Minneapolis on August 1, where the death toll reached only 9.
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