July 31, 2010
Category: Weblogs
Jen McCreight is participating in that masochistic exercise in prolonged blogging called Blogathon, all to raise money for charity. Take a look, donate if you can, at least give her a little sympathy....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 2:10 PM • 40 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Feminism
This is an appalling story. Those "Girls Gone Wild" videos are already about the sleaziest things you'll find advertised on mainstream TV: they are basically made by getting young women drunk to reduce their inhibitions and than urging them to...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:18 PM • 1019 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cephalopods
We're about to leave lovely Vancouver to return to Kent, Washington, so must leave you with something awful to chew on for a while. This is is a beautiful example of why creationists can be so stupid: spelling and grammar...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:55 AM • 118 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 30, 2010
Category: Media
That would be tough. She's written a diatribe in the NY Times on the Pepsico debacle, and it isn't just that she doesn't like many of the scienceblogs (including yours truly), but that she gets the facts wrong. This...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:41 PM • 54 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Open Thread
O Happy Day, let us open this edition of the thread insufferably prolonged with some romance! (Current totals: 10,731 entries with 1,072,626 comments.)...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:09 PM • 692 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Administrative
We are currently suffering from a surfeit of cheesiness in the ad blocks being served up — the example to the right is just one of many horrors, including ads for $cientology, various Christian and creationist groups, and even...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:54 PM • 106 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pointless polls
How can I resist? Eric Hovind does the usual trick of putting two reasonable answers on it to split the rational vote, but I think a good goal would be to simply make both of them crush the stupid creationist...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:05 PM • 545 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
Spiegel has a wonderful interview with Venter. The more I hear from Venter, the more I like him; he's very much a no-BS sort of fellow. He's the guy who really drove the human genome project to completion, and he's...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:33 AM • 100 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
The peculiarities of dietary restrictions by the religious are always entertaining. Catholics have their own weird practices: here's a bit of strange information from a Catholic agony aunt forum. Do alligators count as fish? As a Catholic who observes the...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:21 AM • 139 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Environment
MPR picked my brains about the impossible plan to eradicate mosquitoes. No, we can't, and no, we shouldn't. That wasn't so hard....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:16 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks