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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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July 31, 2011
Category: Feminism
We've been missing one piece of information in all the condemning and howling and insanity of the Rebeccapocalypse: the notorious talk at CFI in which Watson hatefully and viciously tore into a poor innocent student and ripped her to shreds...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:17 AM • 928 Comments •
Category: Open Thread
It's been one of those days. I gave my talk at #ssa2011, and unfortunately…my flash drive turned out to be unreadable on all of the machines there, so I had to do it without any visual aids. I ended up...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 2:15 AM • 668 Comments •
July 30, 2011
Category: Creationism
We all knew this was coming. Xiaotingia, the newly described feathered dinosaur, suggests a reevaluation of the taxonomic status of Archaeopteryx, so the creationists are stumbling all over each other to crow about the failure of science…which doesn't make any...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:40 AM • 160 Comments •
July 29, 2011
Category: Godlessness
Hedges has been totally nuts for the last few years: he's got this crazy irrational hysteria about atheists that makes him utterly unhinged whenever he writes about us. His latest is of a piece with his mania: The gravest threat...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 6:43 PM • 356 Comments •
Category: Open Thread
Kevin Smith's next movie looks terrifying: Porky's meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. (Warning: video NSFW) (Last edition of TET; Current totals: 12,832 entries with 1,454,907 comments.)...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 6:17 PM • 771 Comments •
Category: Cephalopods
Finally. Sorry, gang, I was stuck in a hotel with bad wifi this morning, then traveled all day, so finally, here you go. (via The Node, which also has awesome desktop calendars to download)...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 6:10 PM • 29 Comments •
July 28, 2011
Category: Humor
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:22 PM • 120 Comments •
Category: Media
Oh, this is beautiful. Bill Nye (the Science Guy!) is being interviewed by a Fox News talking head who asks a surprisingly dumb question: Nye is talking about a volcano found on the moon, so he asks, "Does it go...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 6:06 PM • 150 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
Who else but Christopher Hitchens? This year, Richard Dawkins himself will present AAA's Richard Dawkins Award to Christopher Hitchens, who may accept in person or in absentia as his schedule permits. Christopher Hitchens is one of the most prolific modern...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 5:56 PM • 178 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
That article I mentioned earlier about a collection of statements from atheists on why they don't believe is now available at the New Statesman. You can read all of them, not just mine!...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 3:55 PM • 23 Comments •