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Mary’s Monday Metazoan: How ladylike!
Posted by PZ Myers on May 21, 2013 It’s the lovely Pink Dragon millipede — it’s bright enough to belong in the girl’s aisle at the toy store. It also squirts cyanide at you if you annoy it.
Friday Cephalopod: The Great White Cuttle
Posted by PZ Myers on May 17, 2013 (From TONMO, on a page about raising captive cuttlefish)
Botanical Wednesday: Twisty
Posted by PZ Myers on May 16, 2013 (via Australian Geographic)
Good times, good times. Wait, I meant bad times
Posted by PZ Myers on May 15, 2013 Remember the good old days, when you could always trust a creationist to claim their theory was not religious, and then they’d turn around and neatly undermine their own claims for you? Think Bill Buckingham at the Dover trial, who completely won the case for the good guys by saying a lot of stupid stuff.…
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: I’m guessing uncircumcised
Posted by PZ Myers on May 14, 2013 But that membrane hanging off of it is just plain weird. Maybe the video will help make sense of it all. (via ZooBorns)
Happy Mother’s Day!
Posted by PZ Myers on May 12, 2013 At first glance, I thought it was an epiploon or omentum, but no, it’s a lovely octopus mother tending her brood. Go hug your mom right now, or if she’s not nearby, hug a mollusc instead.
Posted by PZ Myers on May 10, 2013 How else is Google Maps going to get coverage of the 70% of the planet underwater? (via Cephalove)
Will Smith must be stopped
Posted by PZ Myers on May 8, 2013 He has a new movie coming out this summer, After Earth. It looks awful, but then, that’s what I’ve come to expect from Will Smith’s Sci-Fi outings. Jebus. Anyone remember that abomination, I, Robot? How about I Am Legend? I steer clear of these movies with a high concept and a big name star, because…
The first day of the rest of my summer!
Posted by PZ Myers on May 7, 2013 It’s going to be a good season, I can tell already. It’s finals week, so I’ll still have an abrupt pile of grading to do on Thursday, but otherwise, my teaching obligations are done for the semester. Now I’m trapped, trapped I tell you, in Morris for almost (I do have two quick trips to…
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: More charismatic megafauna?
Posted by PZ Myers on May 6, 2013 Oh, no. The metazoan curator sent me this photo for this time around, and I groaned a bit: more big furries. I told her, “Where are the tubeworms, the crustaceans, the zooplankton? Why no jellyfish or echinoderms?” And she said, “But they’re so cute!” and gave me that look. That look that means I have…