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October 31, 2011
October 29, 2011
Anti-caturday post
Category: Organisms
This is a level of disgusting a cat can only dream of achieving. hagfish defend themselves and hunt with slime. How do they do that? They wrap themselves around their prey and strangle them in clouds of goo. Awesome! (Also...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:10 PM • 6 Comments •
October 28, 2011
Friday Cephalopod: Poised to star in the next Hollywood SFX blockbuster
Category: Cephalopods
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Posted by PZ Myers at 6:57 AM • 1 Comments •
October 27, 2011
Hitler was a True Christian™
Category: History
If you tuned in to that local debate on Christian radio, you know that one of the points the Christian fool trotted out was the tired old claim that the Nazis were no true Christians — no True Christian™...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:55 PM • 81 Comments •
It ought to be up to Americans to decide what is true!
Category: Humor
You must watch this episode of the Daily Show — it's all about science. Lisa Randall is on it plugging her new book, Knocking on Heaven's Door (she actually doesn't get to say much about it, but I've ordered...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:35 AM • 21 Comments •
Hunting shrimp
Category: Cephalopods
Watch the cuttlefish stalking shrimp, cautiously advancing by walking on a couple of arms — it almost looks like a tetrapod for a few moments. And then, finally, the lightning-fast strike. Oh, man, I wish I had a retractable spear...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:21 AM • 9 Comments •
October 26, 2011
Botanical Wednesday: Get some pants on!
Category: Organisms
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:35 PM • 5 Comments •
How many genes does it take to make a squid eye?
Category: Science
This is an article about cephalopods and eye evolution, but I have to confess at the beginning that the paper it describes isn't all that interesting. I don't want you to have excessive expectations! I wanted to say a few...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:48 AM • 6 Comments •
October 25, 2011
Someone tell Santa about good kids' books
Category: Books
There aren't enough children's books telling the story of evolution — every doctor's office seems to be stocked with some ludicrous children's book promoting that nonsensical Noah's ark story, but clean, simple, and true stories about where we came from...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:37 PM • 16 Comments •
Grace under pressure
The BBC is running an interview with Dame Jocelyn Bell-Burnell, and it's very good. Bell-Burnell is the woman who discovered pulsars, and until I heard this interview, I hadn't realized how it was done. Yeah, there weren't computers available so...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:56 AM • 24 Comments •
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