Now on ScienceBlogs: The future of human evolution
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
…and this is a pharyngula stage embryo.
• a longer profile of yours truly
• my calendar
• Nature Network
• RichardDawkins Network
• facebook
• MySpace
• Twitter
• Atheist Nexus
• the Pharyngula chat room
(#pharyngula on irc.synirc.net)
• Quick link to the latest endless thread
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
Bill Watterson
Category: Organisms
About 2½ years ago, I highlighted the environmental threats to the Australian lungfish, in particular the planned construction of a dam that would destroy their habitat. To my surprise, Australian environmentalists won this battle! The proposed $1.8 billion Traveston Dam...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:17 PM • 116 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Environment
There is a gigantic pile of plastic garbage accumulating in the Pacific. It's concentrate by currents into one floating mass of bottle caps and detergent bottles and nylon debris, all slowly breaking apart into broken bits of polymer bobbing in...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:18 PM • 105 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academics
Hooray for us! We got a nice plug in the Minneapolis Star Tribune for my campus's conservation efforts, and for the opportunities to major in environmental studies here. Come on, students and parents of students, trust me, this is a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:22 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
We just have to make the practice of sky burial popular! Maybe this photo set of a Tibetan funeral will help. (WARNING! Those photos show a large flock of vultures stripping a human body of flesh, with the assistance of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:31 PM • 318 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
The Pope has become an environmentalist, and he has figured out who is causing all our ecological difficulties: the atheists.Is it not true that inconsiderate use of creation begins where God is marginalized or also where his existence is denied?...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:35 AM • 125 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cephalopods
Tips for flourishing after a mass extinction. Ceratites nodosus (MCZ-7232) (A), from the Triassic of Germany, was similar to the ceratitid ammonoid species that thrived in the water column in the Early Triassic (1), while bottom-dwelling species languished. Key...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:03 PM • 68 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Environment
That crank pseudoscience site, Watt's Up With That, got thoroughly reamed out with the video below (just the fact that the chief crackpot, Anthony Watts, would show up on Glenn Beck's show is indictment enough, though). Watt was not too...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:29 PM • 126 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Environment
My most memorable encounter with the anti-animal research cadres was several years ago, when I was a graduate student, and the Animal Liberation Front snuck into our building one night and vandalized one of my colleague's labs; they destroyed...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:20 AM • 114 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Environment
The bluefin tuna is being grossly overfished, and is on its way to extinction. The reason? Fishermen can sell a single bluefin for $173,000. At first thought, you might feel like blaming the greedy fishermen (and I think there is...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:16 AM • 285 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Media
Carl Zimmer discovers that George Will is still lying about global warming. Also, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead....
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:18 PM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Greg Laden's Blog 11.24.2009
The World's Fair 11.24.2009
Effect Measure 11.24.2009
Starts With a Bang 11.23.2009
ERV 11.23.2009
