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Archives for November, 2012
Botanical Wednesday: Those are cool Christmas tree decorations
Posted by PZ Myers on November 29, 2012 (via NatGeo)
Friday Cephalopod: Truckin’
Posted by PZ Myers on November 23, 2012 I’m just making my way through this weekend, taking care of business. (via Wired)
Aaargh! Physicists! Again!
Posted by PZ Myers on November 20, 2012 A while back, two physicists, Paul Davies and Charles Lineweaver, announced their explanation for cancer with a novel theory, which is theirs, that cancers are atavisms recapitulating in a Haeckelian reverse double backflip their premetazoan ancestry. They seemed very proud of their idea. I was aghast, as you might guess. They even claimed that human…
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: X-ray ray
Posted by PZ Myers on November 19, 2012 (via NatGeo)
The science of antediluvian plushies
Posted by PZ Myers on November 18, 2012 One creationist claim that’s commonly laughed at is this idea that 8 people could build a great big boat, big enough to hold all the ‘kinds’ of animals, and that those same 8 people were an adequate work force to maintain all those beasts for a year in a confined space on a storm-tossed ark.…
Friday Cephalopod: Giddyup, my great pink steed!
Posted by PZ Myers on November 16, 2012 WHO IS YOUR MASTER NOOOOOOW? (via the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: I feel an urge to buy a pink suit
Posted by PZ Myers on November 13, 2012 (via NatGeo)
Friday Cephalopod: Looking haughty
Posted by PZ Myers on November 9, 2012 Probably because he’s already at Skepticon, and I’m not. (via Arthropoda)
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Why such a long face?
Posted by PZ Myers on November 6, 2012 (via Ark in Space)