Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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We've literally been inundated since the election [with evangelicals] saying please, please, please crank up the Moral Majority again.
[Jerry Falwell]
Evolution of sensory signaling
Why are flounder funny-looking?
A complex regulatory network in a diploblast
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March 31, 2007
Category: Cephalopods • Humor
…except that I can't stand poker or gambling of any kind, and I refuse to believe that cephalopods would be stupid enough to indulge in it. Maybe it's mocking the dumb one-eyed squid morph....
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:00 PM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
NOVA is going to be showing a program on the cuttlefish Tuesday evening, 3 April — it's called Kings of Camouflage, and the website for it is also very well done, with nice illustrations of anatomy and behavior, and one...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:00 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books • Entertainment • Personal
Well, Skatje's going to Minicon next weekend—sending her off to hang out with intelligent nerds and geeks and people like Charles deLint and Lois McMaster Bujold and the Nielsen Haydens and Jane Yolen is probably the most responsible thing...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:00 PM • 49 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Development • Evolution • Organisms
I must disagree with Larry Moran, who accuses the field of evo-devo of animal chauvinism — not that it isn't more or less true that we do tend to focus on metazoans, but I disagree with an implication that this...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:18 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
A gay rights group called Soulforce had a sit-in (it warms my heart to hear the traditions of the 1960s have not completely died) in the offices of Al Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and typical...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:47 AM • 45 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 30, 2007
Category: Weirdness
Minneapolis is a lovely city, except for the geysers of blood erupting out of the sewer system. Don't get the wrong idea, though—only some of it was human blood....
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:08 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've been seeing this xkcd comic everywhere today, and it might be heresy to do this, but I have to disagree with part of it. It just didn't ring true....
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:10 PM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Afarensis takes on both Sal Cordova and Jonathan Wells on the subject of anthropology. Would you believe that those two creationist frauds are talking out of their hats and are readily spotted as dishonest kooks when they discuss anything in...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:36 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor • Religion • Weirdness
"There's something enchanting under his sari!" What is this, silly religion day? I just got sent a link to this marvelous story of a young unemployed British fellow who became a goddess in India — he is now the incarnation...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:51 PM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivals • Open Thread
Friday Ark #132 Gene Genie #3 Carnival of the Liberals #35 Skeptics' Circle #57...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:30 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Art • Humor • Kooks • Religion
Bill Donohue is hopping mad again — he's got another wild hare up his butt and is fuming over another insult to his very Catholic sensibilities: Catholic League head Bill Donohue called it "one of the worst assaults on...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:41 AM • 144 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weblogs
Boy, you jump on one bandwagon that starts to creak and rattle and fall apart and take a wrong turn down an ugly path, and no one lets you forget it. The Republic of T resurrects the ugly corpse...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:08 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
OK, simple story: kid goes to school dressed as a pirate, eyepatch, inflatable sword, and talking about the flying spaghetti monster; kid is asked to remove the eyepatch several times; kid refuses; kid gets kicked out of school for a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:00 AM • 58 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Octopus mototi In case you're baffled by the rather arty shot, here's another image: Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman....
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:00 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
(via Frolix-8)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:00 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 29, 2007
Category: Evolution
I strongly recommend Larry Moran's analysis of the paper on mammalian macroevolution that I briefly described earlier today....
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:00 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
