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"...among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters, heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad."
--Moby Dick
November 20, 2006
Category: Evolution
Well, it's been worth the wait. The week-long attack from the intelligent design crowd on me explodes in a final fireball of absurdity. Read more in the final update of my response to the Pinto-loving Discovery Institute....
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November 17, 2006
Category: Evolution
The Discovery Institute has fired a second post at me and my National Geographic article on evolution. I've updated my post to explain why they're shooting blanks. In the comment thread, some people asked why I was wasting time dealing...
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November 14, 2006
Category: Upcoming Talks
Well, the talk at Cornell last week went very well. Thanks to everyone who came. If you want to hear me wax rhapsodic about parasite manipulations (and explain how scientists study their evolution), you're in luck. Cornell has put the...
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November 13, 2006
Category: Evolution
Things have not been going so well on the political front for the advocates of intelligent design (a k a the progeny of creationism). This election season their allies on state boards of education in Kansas and Ohio went down...
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November 7, 2006
Category: Upcoming Talks
Attention all Loom readers in the Cornell University area: I'm heading up to Ithaca to give a talk tomorrow on a subject near and dear to my heart--how parasites turn their hosts into puppets and slaves. I'll be at the...
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Category: Evolution
A while back I blogged about the tens of thousands of viruses we carry in our genomes. In today's New York Times I write about how scientists reconstructed a working ancestral virus from its disabled descendants: Old Viruses Resurrected Through...
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