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Archives for September, 2011
Friday Cephalopod: Pearlescent!
Posted by PZ Myers on September 30, 2011 (via GrindTV) (Also on FtB)
It’s all about geeky mathy sciencey love, the finest kind of them all. And of course Fourier transforms are fantastically beautiful! (Also on FtB)
Crowdsourcing for a good cancer text
Posted by PZ Myers on September 29, 2011 Among the many joys plaguing me recently is learning that I get to teach, for the first time for me and for the first time at my university, I get to teach a course in cancer biology this spring term. I’m not totally unprepared for this — I was on a cancer training grant for…
Botanical Wednesday: It’s only September, but I need a vacation
Posted by PZ Myers on September 28, 2011 (via National Geographic) (Also on FtB)
The abuse thread
Posted by PZ Myers on September 28, 2011 I am so bogged down in work…I’m clinging on to the faint hope of liberation as all my deadlines are past next Tuesday (and they will be met! They must!), but until then, I’m thoroughly tied up and sweating over a gazillion things that have to be finished right now. So blogging will be light…
The Grand Republican Plan
Posted by PZ Myers on September 28, 2011 Brilliant! This will balance the budget…and leave me unemployed. (Also on FtB)
That Nobel time of year
Posted by PZ Myers on September 27, 2011 The Nobel Prizes start getting awarded next week, so now is the time to make your predictions in a contest to win an iPad2. I’m afraid, though, I’ve already got a lock on it: I’m predicting that Walt Brown and Bob Enyart, the most brilliant scientific minds ever, are going to win it this year.…
Urge to kill…fading…fading…fading
Posted by PZ Myers on September 27, 2011 Steven Pinker has a new book coming out next week, and I’m very much looking forward to it. It is titled The Better Angels Of Our Nature: How Violence Has Declined, and its premise is that humans have been becoming increasingly less violent over time. I’m very sympathetic to this view: I think cooperation, not…
Bob Enyart and Will Duffy, partners in idiocy
Posted by PZ Myers on September 26, 2011 We’ve got another chittering weasel of a creationist raving in the comments, a fellow going by the name YesYouNeedJesus. He’s also sending me email. PZ, I first heard about you on Bob Enyart’s radio show about the fact that you turned down an offer to debate Bob. I must say that my first impression of…
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Beetle TRIUMPHANT!
Posted by PZ Myers on September 26, 2011 (via National Geographic (Also on FtB)