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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Category: Weirdness
I don't think I'd trust this Latvian money-lender to stay in business for long — he's giving small loans and asking for your soul as the only collateral. He doesn't employ collection agents, using only fear and superstition to get...
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Category: Weirdness
While I was off at the Lindau Nobel meeting, hanging out with mere Nobel prize winners and scientists and enthusiastic graduate students, I seem to have missed my chance to hang out with fairies and angels. About 250 people came...
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Category: Weirdness
Once upon a time, people like Thomas Jefferson would take scissors to their bibles to produce a customized versions that better represented their beliefs. It is now the 21st century; all you need is an internet connection and a...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 4:59 PM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Our respectability among juvenile fans of Harry Potter may have just gone up a notch: Daniel Radcliffe has cheerfully declared himself to be an atheist. I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism,...
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Category: Weirdness
Awesome. Note, however, that it reiterates that odd theme of one-eyed squid that we see all over the place. (via Michael Barton)...
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Category: Weirdness
What a crazy idea for a game show: a Turkish program is looking for 10 atheists to compete for the chance to be converted. What next, a show with healthy contestants competing for the chance to be infected with a...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:45 AM • 90 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
Because it would end embarrassing mistakes like this one. A group of teenagers misunderstood a woman's screams during sex and, thinking they were stopping an assault, beat a 25-year-old man in her bedroom, police said. Multiple tragedies here: not only...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 5:09 PM • 71 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
Everyone is sending me this video of a strange pulsing blob found in a North Carolina sewer inspection. It is officially creepy and disgusting, and someone from the SciFi channel is racing to make creature feature about it right now,...
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Category: Humor
Wouldn't it be fun to rap on your neighbors' doors and hand out this tract?...
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Category: Weirdness
Whirled Nut Daily has announced that the Ark of the Covenant has been discovered and is going to be unveiled in Rome! I urge any of my Italian readers to close your eyes and don't look, because we all know...
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