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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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As the caterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
[William Blake, from "Proverbs of Hell"]
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January 31, 2007
He must be a smart guy: he just picked Amanda Marcotte to run the John Edwards blog. And since Amanda will be slightly distracted, she's brought in five (it takes five people to take Amanda's place?) new people to keep...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:05 PM • 27 Comments
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…is to go say Happy Birdday to GrrlScientist....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:58 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism • Kooks
Don Boys is not happy that Kent Hovind has been sent to jail. Kent's enemies are painting him as a greedy tax resister when he has said repeatedly that he will pay all the taxes he owes. He could...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:20 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Molly Ivins has died. I'm surprised at how this affects me. She was a wonderful woman, wise and funny, and this is a great loss to the nation. Whenever I'm tempted to just write off the whole state of Texas...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:10 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Uh-oh. Evolution has just been refuted by a very sophisticated simulation. Try it; you'll quickly discover how frustratingly boring evolution can be, and you'll give up on it. The 'simulation' is simple: put some random text in a box, click...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:07 PM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism • Politics
James Trumm has a single issue, one that trumps all the others in the election booth, and I have to agree with him. It's a kind of signal flare that says the person advocating it is a total loon...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:43 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Since I got ribbed a bit for my antique D&D lore in a previous comment, I have to defend myself from charges of extreme nerdlitude by distracting you all with a real nerdfest: a discussion of who would win in...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:27 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You all recall the Beagle Project that I recently mentioned was trying to raise money to reconstruct the Beagle and sail off to Patagonia (with me hiding belowdecks, of course). Miss Prism had a terrific idea: she's knitting a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:32 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivals • Tangled Bank
The latest Tangled Bank is online at Ouroboros, and it's a big one. I noticed what seemed to be an awful lot of entries whizzing through my mailbox on the way, so I had a suspicion that we were...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:25 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 30, 2007
Category: Creationism • Stupidity
We went round and round on this well over a year ago. Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, wrote a shallow and ignorant argument that sort of shilly-shallied over a pro-creationist argument; I pointed out how stupid his reasoning was. The...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:43 PM • 616 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Little Professor has A Compendium of Professorial Magic that looks useful—I'm going to have to master these. The list, though, is of low level spells. I think I really need an "Enchant Knowledge" area-effect spell that infuses all of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:03 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Since I mentioned my fondness for Jane Fonda the other day, I think I have to respond to this insane wingnut rant I found via Atrios: Seeing Jane Fonda Saturday was enough to make me wish the unthinkable: it will...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:06 PM • 80 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution • Fossils • Science
Zimmer describes some of the more recent work on Flores Man — people are still arguing over whether the fossil is of a peculiarly abnormal human with microcephaly, or whether there was a species of 'miniaturized' Homo living on...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:00 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Art
Looking to slap more slogans on your Volvo, you latte-sippin', book-readin', over-evolved liberal, you? Here's a good selection of appropriate ones. These two are my favorites:...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:00 AM • 55 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
One of the great developments I'm seeing is the emergence of specialized weblogs that focus hard on a specific issue, and here's an example: the Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog. There's good science there on a topic of considerable importance. Let a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:29 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books • Creationism
Oh, but I am dragging this morning. Have you ever done that thing where you start reading a book and you don't want to put it down, and eventually you realize it's late and you need to get some...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:00 AM • 77 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
