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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
…and this is a pharyngula stage embryo.
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It's another podcast, this time with Mother Jones magazine. I just finished cleaning up something like 400 spam comments made here, so it's with grim resignation that I notice the podcast already has a spam comment on it. Is there...
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Since Jerry Coyne will never ever let me forget my modeling session with Ruse, I'll counter it a little with a photo of the sensible people from the University of Northern Iowa. Theresa Spradling, Peter Berendzen, Steve O'Kane, Marek Sliwinski,...
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When I gave my talk at Minot, ND a few weeks ago, one of the things the Northwest Art Center (which hosted the talk) did was to have the audience evaluate me. This could be useful, I thought, but they...
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Don't faint. I met some people at this meeting. What did you think, I'd strip half-naked, paint myself blue, and start swinging a broadsword?...
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Jerry Coyne has put up a few photos from the conference, including one of me hunched over my teeny-tiny note-taking laptop doing the exciting live-blogging thing. It doesn't look as glamorous as it actually is....
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Yes. Yes we are. (Photo by August Berkshire; if you squint, you might notice Ron Numbers caught in the background between me and Neil Shubin, too.)...
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When I picked up my mail this afternoon, I was surprised to find several large boxes waiting for me. I was surprised when I opened them, both by the nature of their contents and by the fact that there was...
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I'm on the cover of this month's Humanist magazine, and they're running the text of my humanist of the year acceptance speech. So, if I wave this around, will it get me to the front of the line at...
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Barbara Bradley Hagerty felt obligated to go find some rambunctious New Atheist for her series on religion on NPR, and guess who she scavenged up? Yeah, me. Just got off the phone. You'll have to listen for it sometime on...
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What with all my flitting about, I got a few questions about whether I was ever planning to do any talks here in Minnesota. Yes! Yes, I am! On Monday, 16 November, I'm going to be doing a debate. I...
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