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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
…and this is a pharyngula stage embryo.
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March 31, 2010
Category: Politics
This is classic wingnuttia. The Tea-partiers are complaining bitterly that Democrats are making unfounded accusations of racism. "These people could be anybody. I wouldn't put it past the Democrats to plant somebody there," Mr. Robertson said. "They're trying to label...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:52 PM • 75 Comments •
Category: Religion
He thinks I missed his important distinction. Christianity flees power as Jesus did; Christianism seeks it above everything else. And there is nothing more powerful than killing others, except for torturing them. Hence my distinction, which I make from no...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 2:45 PM • 162 Comments •
Category: Evolution
This is a nicely done lecture on design flaws in our anatomy and physiology, to refute claims of intelligent design. Part 2 Part 3 I know exactly how creationists will reply, though, since I've heard it often enough. She's making...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:41 AM • 735 Comments •
Category: Personal
I'd hate to think that someone at Syracuse University might be driving to RIT tomorrow to hear my lecture, since I've been invited by The Atheists, Agnostics and Freethinkers Alliance to speak at Syracuse next week, on 8 April....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:13 AM • 36 Comments •
Category: Politics
That recent episode in which hackers broke into computers at East Anglia University and extracted private email from climate researchers was the subject of much triumphal rejoicing by the climate change deniers. The UK set a parliamentary Science and Technology...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:57 AM • 99 Comments •
Category: Organisms
Coryanthes speciosa (via Custom Life Science Images)...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:06 AM • 16 Comments •
Category: Humor
Now that the LHC is online, The Editors have catalogued three ways it will destroy the world, using the Airwolf scale of awesomeness crossed by a goofiness scale. It looks like being sucked into a black hole is one of...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:15 AM • 32 Comments •
March 30, 2010
Category: Creationism
Good news: the Large Hadron Collider is operational, and has fired two particles together with a force of 7 trillion electron volts…and it's only the beginning, since they're going to ramp up the power gradually. It's too bad Michio...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:43 PM • 409 Comments •
Category: Religion
This is nice. Andrew Sullivan has a suggestion to exempt those wanna-be terrorists, the Hutarees, from the fold of the faithful. Surely we can all assent to the notion that a Christian militia of the type now accused of planning...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 3:48 PM • 191 Comments •
Category: Science
This is quite possibly the most awesome biology photo ever taken. It is two blind-folded crayfish battling each other in clouds of fluorescent green urine. It's a good thing it's just a picture, because if it were a video,...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 2:08 PM • 50 Comments •