Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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It’s easy to rattle off the names of great liberals: Jesus, Buddha, Copernicus, DaVinci, Michelangelo, Galileo, Voltaire, Locke, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Adams, Darwin, Dickens, Hugo, Melville, Lincoln, Twain, Picasso, Einstein, Darrow, Gandhi and Martin Luther King. And great conservatives? Hmmm. Cotton Mather and Ronald Reagan is about it I guess.
Bilateral symmetry in a sea anemone
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The evolution of deuterostome gastrulation
Development, medicine, and evolution of the neck and shoulder
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April 30, 2006
Category: Development • Evolution • Genetics • Molecular Biology • Science
In previous articles about fly development, I'd gone from the maternal gradient to genes that are expressed in alternating stripes (pair-rule genes), and mentioned some genes (the segment polarity genes) that are expressed in every segment. The end result...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:00 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Remember Melinda Barton and that awful piece on the Raw Story? It was taken down, and now it's back up with a few changes, I think. The editors asked me to submit a rebuttal. It's online at the Raw...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:00 AM • 23 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
This is not funny. Five children between 9 and 16 years old died and several others suffered burns when lightning struck a white-painted metal cross set on a hill in the town of Santa Maria del Rio early on Sunday,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:00 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism • Personal
Hurtling1 down the road in my black Chevy2, I laugh maniacally3. "Time to kick creationist butt4," I say, "and test the mettle of the Cheeseheads.5" I'm heading off to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point to minister to the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:00 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 29, 2006
Category: Weirdness
Grrlscientist is pushing another of those online quiz thingies—What's Your Theme Song?—and it was quick and easy, so I took it. Now I'm horribly scarred. Especially compared to my fellow science bloggers, I got a result that disturbs me deeply....
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:25 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
After sitting through Hovind's talk, I have seen the light. I've always been awfully hard on Christianity and Christians here, despising their beliefs and making mock of their nonsensical ideas and backwards social agenda. But this evangelist really reached out...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:04 AM • 531 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 28, 2006
Category: Weblogs
My schedule is knocked all to heck today—there was some mess of an accident on I94 that cost me an extra hour and a half coming into the cities, and the cops in the U district sent me wondering all...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:58 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Be amused. The malevolent clown at Billy Dembski's blog has joined the blithering clown at Telic Thoughts in calling for my head, because I've admitted that I will vote on matters of substance and scientific validity in tenure decisions....
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:54 PM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
There's no doubt that Tony Snow is a creationist, especially not after Nick Matzke's interview....
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:22 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
This week's Friday Cephalopod is reader submitted. Sepioteuthis lessoniana And there's more at Andre Seale's gallery!...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:00 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism • Local • Personal • Weblogs
My life isn't easing up just yet as we wend our way to the imminent end of the term. I'm going to be flitting about over the next few days. I'm chauffeuring #1 son to a job interview in Minneapolis...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:00 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
The Squid blog links to a wonderful National Geographic video of the Humboldt squid. Watch them attack divers! I cheered! Alas, the squid's efforts to taste monkey meat were frustrated, and the noble beasts have not learned to love the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:00 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 27, 2006
Category: Humor
A reader brought Crap I Drew on My Lunch Break to my attention—I like it. The artist understands us godless people and our love of puppy dog dinners and satanic rituals, and she doesn't seem fond of Intelligent Design...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:16 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
One of these people is a babbling butthead. Tony Snow: "Racism isn't that big a deal any more." Ampersand: "The effect of a crime like this—and the subsequent not guilty verdict—is to remind all blacks that a substantial number...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:25 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
One moment I'm posting about jawless fish, the next I'm sent a link to the bravest, craziest young people to infest a marine station. Yes, the two stories are connected....
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:51 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
Chemistry stinks. (via Uncertain Principles)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:37 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
