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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Jacob Bronowski
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Polar lobes and trefoil embryos in the Precambrian
July 31, 2006
Category: Carnivals
The carnivals du jour: Circus of the Spineless XI Encephalon #3 Again, this is also an open thread. I got a comment on the last one that more open threads are needed. Is that true? I don't need to go...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:25 PM • 38 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Reproduction
Suddenly, the FDA has decided to allow over-the-counter sales of the Plan B contraceptive. They've imposed an age restriction—you must be 18 or over to buy it—but it's a smart move in the right direction, and it's about time....
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:34 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
The other day, I was asked a simple question that I knew the answer to, right off the top of my head, and since I'm nothing but lazy and lovin' the easy stuff, I thought I'd expand on it...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:00 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Catch 'em quick before they get deleted. In a post on Dembski's blog that is discussing their Kansas ad campaign to falsely portray the IDist's efforts as solely about teaching good science, there are a couple of interesting comments. Keep...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:15 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
A reader discovered this fascinating graffiti in downtown Minneapolis, near the transit center on Hennepin Avenue. In Minneapolis! So far from the sea, but I'm not alone in pining for it. I may have to look this up. This is...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:49 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
John Rennie deconstructs an IDist's own definition of Intelligent Design. Here's that definition: ID is the claim that there exist patterns in nature that are best explained by intelligent agency. ID doesn't claim to be a default explanation. It is...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:34 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
There is now a web page dedicated to the Neoceratodus cause. If you haven't yet fired off a letter to oppose the destruction of the lungfish's habitat, there's a sample letter there to help you get started. It's not too...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:27 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
What an excellent demonstration of the importance of the principle of the separation of church and state: here's a conservative Christian minister whose views on society and politics I find thoroughly odious; here's a liberal Christian with whom I'd be...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:03 AM • 49 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 30, 2006
Category: Science
Carel Brest van Kempen has posted one of his paintings of Cambrian animals—be sure to click on it to get the larger size. I wish I had a pet anomalocarid in my aquarium....
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:59 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
I'm an exceptionally sound sleeper. I've been known to snooze through fire alarms....
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:47 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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