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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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I'll write about the debate over Tyrannosaurs. Were they fearsome predators or disgusting scavengers?
Which side will you defend?
Oh, I believe they were fearsome predators, definitely.
How come?
They're so much cooler that way.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
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Scienceblogs.com is about to hit one of those arbitrary round-number milestones: sometime soon, someone will make the one millionth comment. Our generous Seed overlords wish to mark this event with celebrations all over the world, and are planning to...
Posted on August 29, 2008 8:52 AM • 53 Comments
I've spent my evening curled up with a wracking cough and nasty pains in places I didn't know I could hurt — I think I sprained my diaphragm — and while stumbling dumbly through the web, I belatedly found the...
Posted on August 29, 2008 1:54 AM • 73 Comments
Jennifer Oullette has put together a pop-sci book meme (and John Lynch has joined in). It's the usual thing, a long list of books and you're supposed to highlight the ones you've read, this time with the theme being that...
Posted on August 28, 2008 4:59 PM • 110 Comments
Since Tom Willis wants to slap warning labels on all scientists, one of our commenters obliged by designing one you can get on a t-shirt. It's probably not exactly what Willis intended, but it'll do....
Posted on August 26, 2008 2:53 PM • 96 Comments
Cyberguy has a nice collection of short pamphlets discussing atheism, evolution, and the scientific method, and will soon be including a lovely pdf of Planet of the Hats. It's useful to have these sorts of things in simple, single page...
Posted on August 26, 2008 11:38 AM • 39 Comments
Posted on August 26, 2008 9:00 AM • 32 Comments
It's true — the cracker incident is still dribbling on in my mailbox. The email is down in volume considerably — only a few dozen angry letters a day. I'm still getting a handful of actual letters every day,...
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Posted on August 26, 2008 1:48 AM • 364 Comments
Once upon a time, Charles Darwin crossed the equator in the Beagle, and he received the traditional hazing: We have crossed the Equator. I have undergone the disagreeable sensation operation of being shaved. About 9 oclock this morning we poor...
Posted on August 25, 2008 8:53 PM • 59 Comments
In reaction to the Freedom from Religion Foundation's billboards, FoxNews asks, "What's your reaction to the 'Imagine No Religion' billboards?". Unfortunately, you only get your choice of two poor answers: "I'm not offended…it's free speech" and "I'm offended…America needs...
Posted on August 25, 2008 1:27 PM • 102 Comments
I bet all they had to do was tell the investors what it is — an Australian musical romantic zombie comedy with giant cephalopods — and the money must have come rolling in for $QUID. I'd pay to see...
Posted on August 25, 2008 12:50 PM • 17 Comments
The first day of classes is on Wednesday. <insert long despairing wail here> I have to get ready now, so life is going to be a bit frantic for a few days. This term I'll be teaching Developmental Biology, a...
Posted on August 25, 2008 8:36 AM • 113 Comments
Steven Pirie-Shepherd discovered the next generation of chemistry professors at the aquarium in Santa Barbara. I am impressed, and will more eagerly join the next search for new chemistry faculty at my university — I have a recommendation in mind....
Posted on August 22, 2008 1:34 PM • 31 Comments
This is a great message that a few framers need to take to heart....
Posted on August 22, 2008 1:15 PM • 71 Comments
This clip is of a caller to the Atheist Experience who makes a series of assertions common among creationists. Matt Dillahunty answers her well, but at the end he doubts that the caller was for real. Sorry, guy, I've...
Posted on August 22, 2008 11:43 AM • 57 Comments
I'm still yucky icky sick and oozing slime and fluids like a mollusc, but I did go see the doctor, and she assured me that my death was not imminent but probably at some distant time years hence. I interpret...
Posted on August 21, 2008 3:08 PM • 122 Comments
