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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
…and this is a pharyngula stage embryo.
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Calvin : "Do you really think Bogeymen exist?"
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February 28, 2007
Category: Academics
David Hone reminds me that I've been remiss in mentioning this new and very useful website, Ask a Biologist. The idea is so simple, you'll wonder why there aren't many more like it—it's a kind of central clearinghouse where young...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 2:21 PM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Hey, you mean America isn't the sole refuge of pious war-mongers? I was sent this remarkable quote from Cardinal Meisner of Köln: Einem Gott lobenden Soldaten kann man guten Gewissens Verantwortung über Leben und Tod anderer übertragen, weil sie bei...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:19 PM • 58 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Administrative
Whoa, people…I expected I'd be adding 10 or 20 new blogs to the blogroll with my open enrollment day, not 125. I've added them all (and I've also made it easier to find the complete listing with a link...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:00 AM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: History
A new movie about Darwin is in the works— Jeremy Thomas is set to produce Annie's Box about Charles Darwin, and hiring John Collee to write and directed by Jon Amiel. The film will be based on a biography...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:39 AM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Reproduction
Well, not really—but the UK government will tolerate and support research into human-animal hybrids. No one is interested in raising a half-pig/half-man creature to adulthood, but instead this work is all about understanding basic mechanisms of development and human disease....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:34 AM • 98 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 27, 2007
Category: Media
Many people have noticed the ad for the ghastly Jesus documentary at the top of the pages here. I'm not thrilled, as you might guess—I think this is almost certainly a load of pseudoscientific fluff. Since it is so prominently...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 3:50 PM • 106 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
Because cell phones are godless, evil tools of Satan and the secular world. It makes me want to run out and buy 3 or 4. (via Improbable Research)...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 3:16 PM • 52 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Administrative
Since the blogroll amnesty day earlier this month was such a flop, I thought I'd reframe it. Today is Blogroll Open Enrollment day! What that means is that this is your opportunity to get onto the Pharyngula blogroll, after...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:00 PM • 167 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Entertainment
You are going to have to make a choice about tonight's educational experience. You could come out to the Common Cup Coffeehouse in Morris, Minnesota at 6:00 to attend our Cafe Scientifique, in which Arne Kildegaard will make the...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:30 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
State senatory Raymond Finney of Tennessee (a retired physician—hey, we've been making Orac squirm uncomfortably a lot lately) has just filed a resolution that asks a few questions. Actually, he's demanding that the Tennessee Department of Education answer these questions...
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