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July 31, 2007

Who the heck is Marcus Brigstocke?

Category: Humor

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Zebrafish myotome formation

Category: Development • Organisms • Science

This is a short video clip of myotome formation in a zebrafish embryo — it's the subject of an upcoming column in Seed, so I'm putting a short visual aid here. You can Download the Quicktime movie (620K), or you...

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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:43 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Don't panic if your doctor is godless

Category: Godlessness

The researcher behind this study is "surprised and disappointed," but I'm neither. Although most religious traditions call on the faithful to serve the poor, a large cross-sectional survey of U.S. physicians found that physicians who are more religious are slightly...

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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:56 AM • 77 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Bang your own drum, but please do bang it

Category: Godlessness

Richard Dawkins defends the Out Campaign. I really have to stress to everyone who complains that they don't like the design, that it's too bold, that it's too timid, that they don't believe in joining anything, etc., that this is...

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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:13 AM • 404 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Can someone tell me the way to Brokeback Observatory?

Category: Humor • Skepticism

I never get stalkers like this. What is the secret of Phil's animal magnetism? (via Depleted Cranium)...

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Posted by PZ Myers at 4:00 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Stuck between a briar patch and a tar baby

Category: Media

I think Bill O'Reilly needs to pick on the big blogs more often. It's incredibly entertaining....

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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:56 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

July 30, 2007

The bookstores have noticed us

Category: Godlessness

Minnesota Atheists notes a new policy at Borders Books — they've put up a small display section dedicated to books about atheism. If you've ever been frustrated in a search for books on nonbelief in your local bookstore or annoyed...

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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:35 PM • 124 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Anomarokarisu!

Category: Weirdness

I would love to have a plush Anomalocaris, but this site is all in Japanese! Anyone know of an American source?...

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Posted by PZ Myers at 6:36 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Someone has too much time on their hands!

Category: Creationism

If you're interested in the sordid history of bannings at Bill Dembski's prissy little blog, here's a compilation. It's an ugly little story. If you're interested in the history of bannings here, I keep a public list. It isn't quite...

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Posted by PZ Myers at 6:18 PM • 53 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

I assumed we were all so good-hearted and helpful

Category: Creationism

This story is getting a lot of attention suddenly: it's a blog about a biologist reshelving creationist crap in bookstores. It's good stuff … but I thought we all did this. You mean most people don't?...

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Posted by PZ Myers at 2:00 PM • 80 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Cephalopod development and evolution

Category: Cephalopods • Development • Evolution • Organisms

People are always arguing about whether primitive apes could have evolved into men, but that one seems obvious to me: of course they did! The resemblances are simply too close, so that questioning it always seems silly. One interesting...

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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:43 PM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

The Great Beer Flood

Category: Weirdness

Everyone has heard of the Boston Molasses Flood, right? That was horrific and weird, but it was outdone by the London Beer Flood: houses were demolished by the torrent, seven were dead by drowning, and one dead by alcohol poisoning....

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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:16 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Dysfunctional family circus

Category: Kooks

And I do mean dys. What a horrible scene to come upon, and even worse, what evil chaos to have lived it: A bed had been pushed up against the door; the officers pushed it open a few inches and...

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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:02 AM • 289 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Galaxiki

Category: Entertainment

It's a wiki with the tagline, "It's a fictional world purely imagined by its community", and it isn't Conservapædia! Galaxiki is a galaxy-building exercise that lets you create star systems and populate them with stories and details. One bummer is...

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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:36 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

This Frightening World

Category: Humor • Politics

Tom Tomorrow has a list of things he's been wondering about, but it's actually a list of things I suspect but would rather not have confirmed....

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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:13 AM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks

Behe gets another thumbs-down

Category: Creationism

Has anyone seen a positive review of Behe's book from a science source? Discover Magazine joins the ranks of those that find it awful: As unpersuasive as Behe's ideas are scientifically, they are even less convincing philosophically. Behe professes agnosticism...

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