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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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What the hell are you getting so upset about? I thought that you didn't believe in God?" "I don't," she sobbed, bursting into tears, "but the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.
[Joseph Heller]
Category: Ethics
Have you ever walked around an 19th century (or earlier) graveyard? It gives you a depressing snapshot of the old reality: so many young women dead in childbirth, so many children reaped by diseases. We've been fortunate, we residents of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:28 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Medicine
It must be tough running a charity. You've got a cause you care deeply about, and you're constantly juggling the game of having to spend money (in administration, advertising, staff) to raise money (for the cause!), and worse, of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:10 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
The miseducation committee of the Indiana legislature recently approved a bill to allow the teaching of creationism in the schools, and now the Indianapolis newspaper approves, with the usual tepid and illegitimate arguments. Much would depend on how teachers handle...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:32 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Indiana is preparing to promote creationism in their science classrooms. A legislative committee has advanced a bill that endorses creationism and "alternative theories" to the vote of the full senate. So it's not a law yet, but it's advancing down...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:13 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communicating science
Along with SOPA and PIPA, our government is contemplating another acronym with deplorable consequences for the free dissemination of information: RWA, the Research Works Act. This is a bill to, it says, "ensure the continued publication and integrity of peer-reviewed...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:45 PM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
First we had Steven Pinker writing about The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, with the thesis that we're getting more peaceful over time. Now John Horgan has declared the potential for The End of War...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:33 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communicating science
I have really been looking forward to seeing David Attenborough's latest, Frozen Planet, here in the US. I've seen brief snippets of the show on youtube, and like all of these big BBC nature productions, I'm sure it's stunning. And...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:36 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academics
Minnesota tuition rates have also been skyrocketing. My salary has been creeping upward at single digit percentage rates — low single digits, and we also had a freeze for a few years — and also, we haven't been hiring swarms...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:49 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
I've heard of the Scoville scale, which measures the potency of spicy peppers. Those boring green bell peppers get a 0; habaneros get a score of 350,000. The stuff those UC Davis police officers so casually hosed into the faces...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:39 PM • 49 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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 • 0 TrackBacks
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