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January 30, 2012
True Science for Boys
Category: History
Ah, the 19th century…when mad scientists were really mad, and not only that, they were popular at parties. In 1818, Dr Ure and Professor Jeffray obtained the freshly killed corpse of Matthew Clydesdale, only an hour from the hangman's...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:14 PM • 7 Comments •
Death to Elsevier!
Category: Academics
You already know my feelings about that exploitive science publisher, Elsevier; I'm not the only one, and there's been a long, long history of anger over their publishing model — and it's not just scientists, but scholars in other disciplines...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:37 AM • 7 Comments •
Darwin on the Palouse
Category: Conferences
Time is whipping by, I can tell — Darwin Day is next week! I'm going to have to whip up a talk for this event real soon, I think: it's Darwin on the Palouse, and I'll be talking at Washington...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:13 AM • 0 Comments •
January 29, 2012
Islamic science has come to this pitiful end
Category: Bad science
The words of the Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu 'aleihi was-sallam) have been tested scientifically, and found hilarious. In work carried out under the direction of Dr. Jamaal Haamid, students at Qassim University examined a saying by the prophet, and have...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:56 PM • 9 Comments •
January 28, 2012
In Indiana, it's not just the lawmakers who are idiots — it's the media, too!
Category: Creationism
The miseducation committee of the Indiana legislature recently approved a bill to allow the teaching of creationism in the schools, and now the Indianapolis newspaper approves, with the usual tepid and illegitimate arguments. Much would depend on how teachers handle...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:32 PM • 26 Comments •
January 27, 2012
Friday Cephalopod: Cuteness!
Category: Cephalopods
The gang at Skepticon are running a poll to design the World's Most Innocuous Atheist Billboard, and they've settled on the message — "Baby Animals Are Cute" — and they've got some choices for you to pick from. I thought...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:37 PM • 4 Comments •
The comparison to jabberwocky is inevitable
Category: Academics
Lots of people have been sending me this paper by Erik Andrulis, and most of you have done so with eyebrows raised, pointing out that it's bizarre and unbelievable; some of you wrote asking whether it was believable, at...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:35 PM • 56 Comments •
Indiana fails
Category: Creationism
Indiana is preparing to promote creationism in their science classrooms. A legislative committee has advanced a bill that endorses creationism and "alternative theories" to the vote of the full senate. So it's not a law yet, but it's advancing down...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:13 AM • 6 Comments •
January 26, 2012
Today is Shawn Otto day at UMM
Category: Academics
We're having a visit today from Shawn Lawrence Otto, a fellow who has been fighting against the un-American war on science on the web and in a book, Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America. He's speaking...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:47 AM • 3 Comments •
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