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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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June 30, 2008
Category: History
Except, unfortunately, what the heck it was. The Tunguska event was the mysterious explosion of unidentified origin that occured in a remote area of Siberia on 30 June 1908, flattening trees over 2000 square kilometers, but leaving no trace...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:31 PM • 77 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
I must have a lot of Australian readers, or the few of you are really upset about this, because I'm getting a rising volume of email about World Youth Day. This is a bizarre Catholic get-together for young people...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:03 PM • 205 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
At least, it beats "Mr Gay", which sounds so frivolous. It seems the American Family Association, which you can tell from the name is yet another institution that has mistaken "patriarchy" for "family"*, was a little overzealous in their use...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:11 PM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Genetics
RPM of Evolgen disagrees with my definition of synteny! This is terribly distressing. Especially since, strictly speaking, he is precisely correct. The word has evolved in its usage from the pure form that RPM is describing to a more colloquial,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:08 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
What? How could Orac pass this story by? A monument to the enema, a procedure many people would rather not think about, has been unveiled at a spa in the southern Russian city of Zheleznovodsk.The bronze syringe bulb, which weighs...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:55 PM • 72 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivals
I have been very, very bad. I have been neglecting my obligations as a member of the blogosphere to share links to interesting stuff, all because I've been busy with travel and work. I missed the Carnival of the Liberals,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:43 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
The propaganda movie opened in Canada, and the weekend box office numbers are in. $24,374. Nationwide. So Canada is a smaller country in population than ours, and their money is worth a little more than ours, but still…I don't think...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:15 PM • 156 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
We've heard the arguments about the relative importance of mutations in cis regulatory regions vs. coding sequences in evolution before — it's the idea that major transitions in evolution were accomplished more by changes in the timing and pattern...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:54 PM • 79 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pointless polls
It's the nature of these things to trivialize. Yet again, media hysteria fuels the absurd fear that flipping a switch in Switzerland will Destroy The World…and they're running a poll to let non-physicists guess at the risks. This one has...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:04 PM • 70 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
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