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The CephSeq Consortium has a strategy
Posted by PZ Myers on October 29, 2012 I approve this plan. A number of researchers have gotten together and worked out a grand strategy for sequencing the genomes of a collection of cephalopods. This involves surveying the phylogeny of cephalopods and trying to pick species to sample that adequately cover the diversity of the group, while also selecting model species that have…
Friday Cephalopod: The spots just make it adorable
Posted by PZ Myers on October 26, 2012 (via NatGeo)
Botanical Wednesday: Pumpkin spiral
Posted by PZ Myers on October 25, 2012 (via Redbubble)
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Peek-a-boo
Posted by PZ Myers on October 23, 2012 (via NatGeo)
Friday Cephalopod: Hatchlings
Posted by PZ Myers on October 19, 2012 (via NatGeo)
The ducks are gonna get you
Posted by PZ Myers on October 13, 2012 Some poor young girl, deeply miseducated and misled, wrote into a newspaper with a letter trying to denounce homosexuality with a bad historical and biological argument. She’s only 14, and her brain has already been poisoned by the cranks and liars in her own family…it’s very sad. Here’s the letter — I will say, it’s…
Friday Cephalopod: Goin’ for a walk
Posted by PZ Myers on October 13, 2012 Newsweek panders to the deluded again
Posted by PZ Myers on October 9, 2012 I’ve got to wonder who is responsible for this nonsense, and how it gets past the staff at Newsweek. Every once in a while, they’ve just got to put up a garish cover story touting the reality of Christian doctrine, and invariably, the whole story is garbage. This time around, the claim is proof of…
Friday Cephalopod: Beautiful blue eyes
Posted by PZ Myers on October 6, 2012 (via DivePhotoGuide)
Botanical Wednesday: feelin’ Halloweeny
Posted by PZ Myers on October 4, 2012