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I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.
[Mark Twain, Speech to the Red Cross, New York, Dec. 31, 1899]
February 29, 2012
Category: Organisms
This is a plant germinated from 32,000 year old tissue recovered from permafrost. I'll take their word for it, but I'd like to see some ID. (via NatGeo) (Also on FtB)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:19 PM • 14 Comments •
February 28, 2012
Category: Pointless polls
Apparently, someone decided 27 February-4 March is Acupuncture Awareness Week. I'm happy to help out. You should be aware that acupuncture is total bollocks. There. Is that enough? No, it is not. We must also crash a stupid online...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:23 AM • 47 Comments •
February 27, 2012
Category: Organisms
(via NatGeo) (Also on FtB)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:27 PM • 3 Comments •
February 24, 2012
Category: Cephalopods
It had to by flying squid today, because of this story in Nature about squid locomotor energetics. Scientists measured the velocities of flying squid in air, and noted that they can move five times faster in a less dense/viscous medium...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:11 PM • 13 Comments •
February 23, 2012
Category: Science
Both Phil Plait and Sean Carroll are tentatively reporting that they may have an explanation for the recent anomalous report of neutrinos traveling faster than light: it may have been a case of a faulty connection in a timing circuit....
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:23 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Science
I was going to talk about a cool recent paper that described the evolution of novelties by way of modifying modular gene networks, but I started scribbling it up and realized that I was constantly backtracking to explain some...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:59 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Creationism
AAAAAAAAAARGH! Someone is wrong on the internet, and I don't know whether to scream or to facepalm! (I tried doing both at once, but then it just comes out as a muffled gargle.) Please go look at this creationist...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:40 AM • 51 Comments •
February 22, 2012
Category: Organisms
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:13 PM • 10 Comments •
February 21, 2012
Category: Reproduction
This is Hazel Jones. She has two vaginas. She has a condition called Uterus Didelphys. Variations of this condition aren't uncommon, occurring once in a few thousand births. The reproductive tract develops from paired tubes that fuse prenatally, and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:56 PM • 24 Comments •
Category: Science
Last week, I gave a talk at UNLV titled "A counter-revolutionary history of evo devo", and I'm afraid I was a little bit heretical. I criticized my favorite discipline. I felt guilty the whole time, but I think it's...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:44 PM • 13 Comments •
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