Anthony Grayling, who does a really interesting review column in the Barnes and Noble Review, entitled "A Thinking Read", has a piece on Jerry Coyne's book Why Evolution is True. This saves me having to read it and review it for you myself.
The column title is a pun on Blaise Pascal's statement that "Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed". A pun which I wish I had come up with.
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I'll get back to substantive posting in a bit, but as the semester wraps up, I wanted to ask for your help. Over the years, punning has become a more and more integral part of our lab meetings. It's reached the point, in fact, that our P.I.
After my call for puns, I got some really bad ones, but I think I may have found the worst pun ever, and its a science pun too (via
Toxoplasma must be one of the most mind-boggling (oh! sweet pun!) parasite. Maggie Wittlin has a fascinating report about this parasite at Seed Magazine.
In a recent post, before we officially had Tropical Storm Beryl, I wrote that I could "hardly Beryl the suspense." Alas, this pun turns on "Beryl" being pronounced like "barrel." But now comes NHC forecaster Stacy Stewart
I'm sure one day you will.
The standard phrase is "You will, John, you will."
Also, Your Royal Highness is like a stream of bat's piss.