August 31, 2010
Category: Pointless polls
Here's a silly poll from Eric Hovind, and we know from experience how it will go: if he doesn't like the results, he'll jigger everything around until he gets what he wants. Make him dance anyway. How do we know...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:08 PM • 279 Comments •
Category: Politics
Prime Minister Harper has come up with a bizarre goal: he thinks so highly of the US's Fox News that he wants to create a similar propaganda organ up North. Incredible — isn't Canada supposed to learn from our terrible...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:52 PM • 77 Comments •
Category: Open Thread
Yeesh, you've dragged me onto the internet to update the nagging thread again, despite the work piled up around me and the ickiness I'm feeling from all these new meds I'm soaking in. Now back to recuperating and writing. (Current...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 1:30 PM • 677 Comments •
Category: Gadgets
I'd never heard of knol before, but apparently it was Google's attempt at creating a competitor to Wikipedia. Wikipedia has its flaws, but wow, it was revealing to see the alternative: knol is awful. It was brought to my attention...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 1:26 PM • 79 Comments •
Category: History
A reader, Sam, sent some fascinating excerpts from a court decision in 1824, Updegraph v. Commonwealth. It was a small case that prompted the judge to write a seventeen page furious rant, and reading it will make you realize what...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:33 AM • 90 Comments •
August 30, 2010
Category: Religion
Oh, my. Tony Blair seems to have declared war against us. "We face an aggressive secular attack from without. We face the threat of extremism from within." Arguing that there was "no hope" from atheists who scorn God, he said...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 6:09 PM • 203 Comments •
Category: Humor
Quick, accelerate the campaign of world conquest before anyone else catches on. The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cAqua ThreatDown - Oyster Sluts, Japanese Hackers & Israeli Regulators<a>www.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full Episodes2010 ElectionFox News At least Colbert confesses to having...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 3:08 PM • 36 Comments •
Category: Religion
Oh, no. Atheists are the arrogant ones, so how can this Irish Catholic write such pretentious nonsense? Religion unleashes a boundless curiosity in us that elsewhere is afraid to reveal itself for fear of appearing naive. Yeah, tell that to...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 2:55 PM • 512 Comments •
Category: Organisms
Microhyla nepenthicola...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:55 PM • 37 Comments •
Category: Science philosophy
When I critized Mary Midgley the other day for her sloppy critique of Nicholas Humphrey, I also pointed out that Humphrey had apparently indulged in some unfortunate hyperbole himself, saying "So successful has it been that many scientists would now...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:39 AM • 65 Comments •