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There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
[Van Wyck Brooks, The Nation, 14 August 1954]
June 30, 2009
Category: Lindau
Ah, a solid science talk. It wasn't bad, except that it was very basic—maybe if I were a real journalist instead of a fake journalist I would have appreciated it more, but as it was, it was a nice...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:31 PM • 39 Comments •
Category: Politics
The Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled against him, and finally Norm Coleman has conceded the Minnesota state senate race to Al Franken. Hooray for Al, we have a new senator!...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:31 PM • 68 Comments •
Category: Religion
As mentioned previously, my interview on British Christian talk radio is now available — you can download the mp3 directly, and you can join in an online discussion, in which I am accused of "scientism"…which is rather pecuilar, given that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:50 AM • 168 Comments •
Category: Organisms
There is a cool program available in the UK only titled Inside Nature's Giants, which is meant to be taken literally — they actually record the dissection of megafauna. The first episode is about delving into the guts of an...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:26 AM • 54 Comments •
Category: Lindau
There are a few people who will now appear on the blog who will be extremely peevish about Molina's talk, because he simply clearly stated the scientific consensus. We are now living in the anthropocene, when so many people...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:16 AM • 262 Comments •
Category: Lindau
The first few talks this morning focused primarily on policy as illuminated by science; only the third talk was pure science. Chiechanover's talk was on both the history and future of drug research, which he characterized in terms of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:48 AM • 22 Comments •
Category: Creationism
It's getting to be a regular feature—every year, the NY Times must do a story on that bizarre miseducation monument, the Creation "Museum". This time around, the story isn't too awful — it focuses on the recent NAPC meeting, in...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:19 AM • 107 Comments •
Category: Lindau
It is time for the first big challenge of the week: getting my circadian rhythms straightened around. It feels like about 11:30 in the evening, my biological time, but it's actually 6:30am Lindau time. Today is actually tomorrow. My strategy...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:44 AM • 40 Comments •
June 29, 2009
Category: Personal
I really need to learn a good collection of creative German cuss words. It's been a harrowing, overlong day and a half of travel, with late flights leading to missed connections leading to long periods standing in lines with Germans,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:11 AM • 155 Comments •
June 28, 2009
Category: Creationism
They're doing it again. There's a new movie being released, The Voyage That Shook the World, that you can tell from the tagline — "One man, one voyage, one book ignited a controversy that still rages today" — is...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:31 PM • 212 Comments •
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