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February 28, 2007

Ask a Biologist

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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in betenden Händen ist die Waffe vor Mißbrauch sicher

Category: PoliticsReligion

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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Open Enrollment Day—too much success!

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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I'll go see it

Category: BooksEntertainmentHistory

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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The manimal will have a British accent

Category: DevelopmentPoliticsReproduction

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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February 27, 2007

The Crucifixion of St PZ

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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This is why I should own a cell phone myself

Category: KooksReligionWeirdness

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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Blogroll Open Enrollment Day!

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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Cafe Scientifique, or Lewis Wolpert

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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Raymond Finney asks questions, I got answers

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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No church-going doctors for me, please

Category: Religion

Here I've been thinking of getting a nice tattoo (something discreet and subtle, like an octopus someplace you'll never see it), and then I learn that for the sake of my health, I better not. After all, some good...

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February 26, 2007

"A new way of learning about history and science"

Category: Kooks

At least, that's how Andy Schlafly characterizes Conservapedia in a New Scientist article. I called it "shallow and useless or downright wrong," if you're interested in an alternative position on it. Josh Rosenau wasn't any more charitable. They are re-defining...

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Mike attended a creationist conference, and he's still sane (mostly)

Category: Creationism

This fellow Mike up around Toronto asked me for assistance a while back—he was planning to attend the Bible Skeptics Conference, an event put on by the Institute for Creation Research. I couldn't say much, but I did suggest...

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YKC

Category: PoliticsWeblogs

DarkSyde is plugging the Yearly Kos Convention, which will be held in August in Chicago. I recommend it highly—we attended last year, and it was a blast meeting all those people. I suspect this year's event will be even bigger....

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Blasphemy is too education!

Category: AcademicsReligion

This message came by a roundabout route—a reader sent me a link to an Italian blog (translated) that was discussing a protest petition of a 'blasphemous' play that is being put on at…the University of Minnesota! The petition is...

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Sorry, Delft

Category: ArtCephalopodsHumor

The pets got a little out of hand. (Actually, it's from a page of photoshopped giant squid pictures. The squid haven't invaded the Netherlands…yet.)...

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