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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Nature free at once and rid of her haughty lords is seen to do all things spontaneously of herself without the meddling of the gods.
Lucretius
September 30, 2007
The neurobiology of intelligence Where do people get the idea that intelligence has a biological basis? Oh yeah, from those geneticists, whose research has shown that intelligence levels can be inherited. One fairly new development for researching intelligence is through...
Posted by Lua Yar at 11:54 PM • 21 Comments •
Category: Organisms
Chris Clarke callously infected me with a meme. I'm supposed to answer these five questions. An interesting animal I hadAn interesting animal I ateAn interesting animal in the MuseumAn interesting thing I did with or to an animalAn interesting animal...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:28 PM • 49 Comments •
Category: Molecular Biology
It's been quite busy last week. Despite the Neurobiology class didn't meet that week, my other classes kept my hands full. I blame it on two exams and a paper due during the week of Homecoming. Since I don't have...
Posted by Mark_Antimony at 4:25 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
My sermon-skit was too clever by half and the point seems to have been missed by some — so maybe you'd prefer the simpler clarity of Revere's Sunday Sermonette or the straight-ahead, full-throttle atheism of the latest Carnival of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:44 AM • 28 Comments •
Category: Communicating science
Now Matt Nisbet weighs in, and Mike Haubrich gives an amazing summary of not just what I said, but what I meant to say. One thing I referred to I called the "science education extinction vortex", and referred to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:46 AM • 27 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
THE SCENE: A circular room cut deep into stone; magma pits bubble left and right, all is lit by roaring torches that cast dark, flickering shadows. In the center, the Cephalopod Throne. THE CAST: PZ Myers broods on his...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:00 AM • 86 Comments •
September 29, 2007
Category: Entertainment
I forgot to tell you all the most important gossip I heard at the Bell last night. I had a scant few minutes to talk to Jim Kakalios, who has gone all Hollywood on us, doing consulting work for the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:57 PM • 34 Comments •
Category: Creationism
My crank mail can be categorized into several categories. There are the short, barely literate splutterings of abuse; the weird rants and threats; the reiteration of long-dead creationist talking points (yeah, I get email where the writer thinks he's trumped...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:00 PM • 113 Comments •
Category: Communicating science
Chris Mooney has his summary post up, in which he predictably and incorrectly declares victory for the forces of empty rhetoric, and Greg Laden correctly declares victory for the puppies and small children, which, of course, was our side....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:00 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Communicating science
If you've been curious to know more about Carl Zimmer, he's having a conversation with John Horgan on Bloggingheads.tv....
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:28 AM • 2 Comments •
