Friday Cephalopod: Squink!
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Loligo peali (via Scientific American)...
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Colfax, Placer County. Yesterday's crowd of pilgrims, some of whom arrived at midnight, saw a blue-gray light form over the right shoulder of a five- foot statue of Jesus near the altar of the 40-year-old Catholic church. For some, the shimmering light that turned green-pink bore the shape of a shawl covering a woman's head and shoulders. Sometimes the image was sharp; other times it was fuzzy. The eerie image appeared about 9:30 a.m., as it has every day since Thanksgiving, and remained for about an hour. At one point, a second light gold in color and resembling the shape of a crown or halo briefly appeared directly above the first image. At the moment the gold light appeared, many people in the line outside said they spotted a rainbow over the church. Inside the 200-seat church, pilgrims gasped, prayed, wept and stared at the image. …According to James Phelps, a physics professor at Sacramento State University, the image is a phenomenon caused by natural light refracting through a stained-glass window and then bouncing off a light fixture and onto the wall. 'There's nothing exotic, nothing esoteric about it,' said the optics expert, who observed the image at the request of a local newspaper.
[Martin Halstuk, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 December 1990]
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A contemptible pseudoscientific scam
Category: Genetics
Grrr. I was sent a link to these lying, sleazebag scammers at mygeneprofile.com, and it's the kind of thing that pisses me off. What you'll find there is a long video where the lowlife in a suit talks about how...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:31 PM • 138 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
KKMS, always quick to defend the fools
Category: Creationism
KKMS is a Twin Cities Christian talk radio station which has long been on my list of disreputable people and organizations peddling lies to the populace. They really pissed me off a while back when they brought me on to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:18 PM • 117 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The problem of the oblivious white male atheist
Category: Godlessness
I have to recommend this criticism of sexism in the skeptical community: skeptifem points out that while we're quick to outrage when someone like Bill Maher violates science norms, we seem to shrug off the fact that he's been rudely...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:48 PM • 534 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 18, 2009
You've all forgotten about the Molly awards, haven't you?
Category: Administrative
Nah, I know you didn't…but I finally got around to tallying up the votes, and the winners of the Molly award for the month of September are Desert Son [New complementary close under construction] and Feynmaniac. You may now give...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:47 PM • 101 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Skepticon II
Category: Godlessness
It's another travel day for me tomorrow — I'm off to Skepticon II in Springfield, Missouri, where I'll be joining a whole group of interesting people. I notice I'm going to be giving two talks (hey, JT, nice surprise!),...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:33 PM • 44 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Did you get a copy of The Origin from Ray Comfort?
Category: Creationism
Then take a picture of yourself with it and send it to Eric Michael Johnson. I think he's going to put up a collage of smirking evilutionists with Comfort's folly....
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:14 PM • 177 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I get email
Category: Creationism
Here we go again. Ross Olson is sending more patronizing email, so I guess I'll have to be mean and tear up his prior argument. November 18, 2009 Dr. Myers, Thank you for posting my comments and promising to comment...
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If I were called Rusty Thomas, I might overcompensate a bit, too
Category: Religion
Operation Save America has begun. Some of the fundagelicals are hoping to get militant, and I don't mean in that same sense that some atheists are called "militant", which generally means "atheists who say something". No, they are organizing and...
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Ray has a change in plans
Category: Creationism
Apparently, because people had plans to counter some of Ray Comfort's Origin giveaway — which was announced to occur on the 19th — Comfort is giving them away today. I've been getting reports from various universities that his minions are...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:11 AM • 224 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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