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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
[Nietzsche]
May 31, 2008
Category: Weirdness
It's amazing how powerfully predictive that little law is. I mentioned some similar activity a while back, but it's still going on: kooks praying for lower gas prices. For the past several weeks, Twyman has assembled a group at a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:20 AM • 189 Comments •
Is it biological or physical? It's a little unfair, you ought to be able to just click "physics" for everything and get a perfect score, but I managed to get 12 out of 12 by the simple strategy of calling...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:10 AM • 81 Comments •
Category: Personal
Well, almost. My flight is delayed a bit, so I'm stuck in the San Francisco airport for a few hours. I will get there, though, and I will nap the whole way. It's been a long couple of days....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:58 AM • 39 Comments •
May 30, 2008
Category: Weblogs
Thanks to T. Ryan Gregory, I have just discovered Todd Oakley's new blog, Evolutionary Novelties. It's only a few months old and only has a few entries, but go on, encourage him to write more....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:09 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Science
… is now available online. It's a brief introduction to some interesting observations about the pufferfish genome....
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:11 PM • 26 Comments •
Category: Science
Alex Palazzo is talking about open questions in cell biology — in this case, control of organelle shape. Any of us who have poked around in cells know that it is not an amorphous blob of goo, but has characteristic,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:55 PM • 49 Comments •
Category: Personal
This is my last day in Berkeley, and the last day of the IEDG meeting, and I'm giving the very last talk of the meeting…which means, unfortunately, that the time I've been able to give to local readers has been...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:34 PM • 43 Comments •
Category: Pointless polls
Recall the car dealership ad that suggested that non-Christians sit down and shut up? A poll by a television station asks, Does the Kieffe and Sons Ford ad make you want to buy a car from the dealership? The only...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:37 AM • 94 Comments •
Category: Cephalopods
Nautilus pompilius From the Aquarium of the Pacific....
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:09 AM • 27 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Jerry Coyne recently gave a talk at Rockefeller University, which is now available on video. It's a good talk, making points familiar to most readers here about the absurdity of creationism/intelligent design, with clean examples to rebut their major arguments....
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:49 AM • 216 Comments •
