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Thunder rolled… It is said that the gods play games with the fates of men. But what games, and why, and the identities of the actual pawns, and what the game is, and what the rules are - who knows?
Best not to speculate.
Thunder rolled…
It rolled a six.

(Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!)

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October 31, 2007

What's your image?

Category: Personal

I came across this interesting meme: google for the image that comes up first for your name. I was a little surprised by what "pz" returns, but I think it is entirely appropriate....

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Interesting discussions that I don't have time to address right now

Category: Godlessness

How peculiar — I've gotten several requests in email to comment on this plaint from Theodore Dalrymple, a fellow who doesn't like those "New Atheists" like Sam Harris and Dan Dennett. It's peculiar because I'm here at a conference with...

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Happy Halloween!

Category: Administrative

I know, it's not very scary, but here's something that might strike terror into a few hearts: October 2007 has been Pharyngula's first million visit month. I remember the first month I broke 300 visitors (Woo hoo! Ten readers...

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October 30, 2007

Research into adult neural cell integration

Category: Academics

I found an article about new brain cells that I thought was really interesting. Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine discovered the mechanism behind how new neural cells are integrated into the adult brain. It turns out that new...

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Cafe Scientifique — tonight!

Category: Communicating scienceLocal

Tonight's the night for the inaugural meeting of Café Scientifique-Morris for the 2007-2008 school year. The topic is: Food or Fuel? A simple multi-scale integrated analysis of agroecosystems It will be presented by Abdullah Jaradat of the North Central Soil...

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That holy flail

Category: Religion

Guilt-ridden Christian: If I don't obey God, he's going to make me suffer for all eternity. Evil-angelical Christian: I don't make you obey God, I'll be responsible for your eternal suffering. That link will take you to a despicably...

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My naked little friend

Category: Organisms

If you are wondering who that little guy is on my shoulder, you need to be enlightened. Of course they're beautiful. I keep a model right next to my spring-loaded squid toy. So you want a closeup?...

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Should this student have been suspended?

Category: AcademicsKooks

This is a troubling story if you just read the right-wing perspective: a student at Hamline University (an excellent liberal arts college in the Twin Cities) was suspended for writing a letter to the university administration. That shouldn't happen, I'd...

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Jesus vs. T. rex

Category: Humor

Who would win? I think this is he definitive answer....

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I guess it's not just deranged protestant fundamentalists

Category: ReligionStupidity

Pope Ratzi confirms the bankruptcy of religion for me once again....

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October 29, 2007

Halloweeny, good and bad

Category: Entertainment

The other night, I made the mistake of going to the local theater to see the horrible new version of Halloween by Rob Zombie. It sucked. Unimaginative, tedious, unrelievedly grim, plodding, with no insight or interesting ideas, and it wasn't...

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Mulifunction drugs.

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While I would love to devote all of my time to neurobiology, I do have other classes that require my attention. In one of those classes I am writing a research paper on tuberculosis. While researching tuberculosis I began wondering...

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The descent of man

Category: Weirdness

Objects of strange affections: Sex doll → mannequin → bicycle → pavement. No word on how many of them vote Republican....

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Celebrity endorsement acknowledged by Creation Science Evangelism

Category: Creationism

How can you not believe in creationism when such famous authorities in biology and human anatomy accept it?...

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“What evolution predicts…”

Category: Creationism

No three words are more pregnant with the promise of error in a conversation with a creationist than to hear them say "what evolution predicts…". It's practically a guarantee that you're going to hear something bizarre and fundamentally erroneous —...

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Remember Jeff Gannon?

Category: Media

I'd almost forgotten, myself. But look, Gannon shows up in the virtual flesh at Denialism to try and defend his record. Trust me on this, Jeff. You want us to forget your sleazy softball approach to fake journalism. You aren't...

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