May 31, 2006
Neutering our kids' exposure to science
Category: Science
Hey, gang! Who remembers these?...
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Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal

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May 31, 2006
Category: Science
Hey, gang! Who remembers these?...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:04 PM • 90 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
This story, if true, is rather sad. 2009 will be a major date for evolutionary biology, both the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, and the 150th of the publication of the Origin (note to self: must publish earth-shaking treatise on...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:51 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Yesterday was a long, busy day of driving, ferrying offspring about, and I listened to a lot of NPR. All I heard, over and over again, was talk about Henry Paulson and his new position as Treasury Secretary. Not a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:02 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
I'd almost forgotten Timothy Birdnow. He's the embarrassingly ignorant property manager who claimed to have refuted Darwin, but instead made a whole series of foolish blunders; I pinned him down on one point he'd made, and asked him to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:27 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academics • Carnivals • Open Thread • Organisms
Read. Carnival of Education Circus of the Spineless...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:59 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Isn't it charming how the most contemptibly corrupt scoundrels are so pious?...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:08 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Development • Evolution • Molecular Biology • Science
Fellow scienceblogger Evolgen has seen the light—evo-devo is wonderful. He's attending a meeting and listening to some of the bigwigs in the field talk about their work, in particular some research on the evolution of gene regulation. While noting that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:25 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
Change a few words in one of their news shorts, and it's perfect. …are calling the park [blog] sensationalist and exploitative, but add that anything that gets people interested in science can't be all bad....
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Category: Weirdness
I've got good news and I've got bad news for Clara Jean Brown. Worried about the safety of her family during a stormy Memorial Day trip to the beach, Clara Jean Brown stood in her kitchen and prayed for their...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:05 AM • 54 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 30, 2006
Category: Development • Weirdness
Call me perverse, but my first thought on seeing this kid was that I desperately want to see an x-ray of the pectoral girdle. It looks to me from this one picture that the lower arm must lack a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:49 PM • 44 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Entertainment • Godlessness
Are you ready for the hot new game of the 2006 Christmas season, Left Behind: Eternal Forces? Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:00 PM • 91 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism • Godlessness
I almost forgot: there was another comment in the Karen Armstrong interview that I found irksome…but my complaint is mainly with the interviewer. Here's one question he asked her, and her answer. But certainly there are a lot of people...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:17 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Salon has an interview with Karen Armstrong, and I don't know whether the interviewer just did a poor job or whether her ideas really are that sloppy and confused. She definitely has interesting ideas about religion, but while she's dismissing...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:00 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
I've received a personal email from Rabbi Avi Shafran—the fellow whose graceless and ignorant opinion piece I criticized a while back. It's a peculiar thing: he wrote a public editorial, I criticized it publicly, and now he asks that we...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:00 AM • 77 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 29, 2006
Category: Organisms • Weirdness
Lots of people have been sending me the link to the Vintage Octopus Pulp Covers site. It's very cool. It makes me wonder why so many people are infatuated with cephalopods, though. Weirdos....
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:59 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
Creek Running North has a guest blogger this week, and she has asked for inspirational stories to help her get started. So here's a little motivational tale from my undergraduate days about my love for animals, and how I...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:00 AM • 11 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
