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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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June 30, 2006
Category: Weirdness
I remember 1968, and I remember that I was into comic books at that age…but I sure don't remember that the patriarchy was this dominant, and clueless. Remember, kids, be nice to your girlfriends so that they'll squelch any uppity...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:24 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
I can vote for a Christian politician, no problem. I have even liked Obama's sense of vision (although it seems he's been a bit of a flop in execution.) His latest speech, though… And if we're going to do that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:14 PM • 68 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution • Neurobiology • Organisms • Science
Once upon a time, as a young undergraduate, I took a course in neurobiology (which turned out to be rather influential in my life, but that's another story). The professor, Johnny Palka, took pains at the beginning to explain to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:52 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Found on Buridan's Ass: "Someday the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."—H.L. Mencken...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:07 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Entertainment
But it's science themed music, so that makes it a little bit OK. Easternblot.net links to music from This Week In Science, and in the comments, I discover the media empire of Doctor Steel. My kind of guy. Oh, and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:53 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivals • Open Thread • Tangled Bank
We have a couple of carnivals up right now… Modulator's Friday Ark Circus of the Spineless #10 Carnival of Education #73 …and a few that are looking for submissions. Carnival of the Liberals #16 will be at the Uncredible Hallq...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:45 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
I seem to have struck a nerve. I'm getting lots of irate email over this post I made yesterday…not the usual cranky, ungrammatical rants I get from creationists, but literate notes with a hint of desperation. They're still wrong. Everyone...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:29 AM • 175 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
It's a bonus movie for the Friday Cephalopod: the octopus is a master of camouflage....
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:10 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
Giant Australian cuttlefish "It's a giant orgy. The waters of the Spencer Gulf are simply reeking with sex at the moment, as millions of Giant Australian cuttlefish arrive for their annual breeding season." O Australia! I wish I could switch...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:05 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 29, 2006
Category: Weirdness
I had my credit card out and everything—doesn't everyone want a Death Ray? (via collision detection)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:07 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Sweet jebus. Peggy Noonan is insane. Bush the Younger would breastfeed the military if he could. But the codpiece…and the cyborg appliance on his back? Breasts? Bush?? …soldiers lined up for the teat…? Aaaahh. Neurons…recoiling. Synapses…boiling, erupting, melting. Must…stagger…to hospital…...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:47 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
In a thread that will not die at the Panda's Thumb, the argument has settled into a more reasonable back-and-forth on the issue of the entanglement of atheism and science. There are a number of people, including many of the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:23 PM • 145 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
It's got bats, it's got clever giant albino centipedes, it's got sudden death: it's the perfect lunch hour movie for Pharynguloids....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:56 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics • Reproduction • Science
I suppose this is a kind of threat—an archaic and quaint threat, but I'm sure some people take it seriously—but the Catholic church has made a strong statement against embryonic stem cell research. The Vatican stepped up its fight against...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:26 AM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Josh Rosenau is being proactive and is looking for help defeating the creationists on the Kansas Board of Education. He has a list of contested seats and recommendations of science-friendly candidates—Kansans can vote, the rest of us can send donations...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:07 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 28, 2006
Category: Weirdness
I mentioned that cringe-inducing hemipenectomy that some spiders do…well, Stan Schwarz had to one-up me and sent a link to an image of an example of full genital splitting (if you click that link, you're probably safe; it's a very...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:32 PM • 66 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
