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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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If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
[Robert G. Ingersoll]
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Category: Kooks
Sweet jebus. Peggy Noonan is insane. Bush the Younger would breastfeed the military if he could. But the codpiece…and the cyborg appliance on his back? Breasts? Bush?? …soldiers lined up for the teat…? Aaaahh. Neurons…recoiling. Synapses…boiling, erupting, melting. Must…stagger…to hospital…...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 5:47 PM • 25 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
In a thread that will not die at the Panda's Thumb, the argument has settled into a more reasonable back-and-forth on the issue of the entanglement of atheism and science. There are a number of people, including many of the...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 1:23 PM • 151 Comments •
Category: Organisms
It's got bats, it's got clever giant albino centipedes, it's got sudden death: it's the perfect lunch hour movie for Pharynguloids....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:56 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: Politics
I suppose this is a kind of threat—an archaic and quaint threat, but I'm sure some people take it seriously—but the Catholic church has made a strong statement against embryonic stem cell research. The Vatican stepped up its fight against...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:26 AM • 31 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Josh Rosenau is being proactive and is looking for help defeating the creationists on the Kansas Board of Education. He has a list of contested seats and recommendations of science-friendly candidates—Kansans can vote, the rest of us can send donations...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:07 AM • 1 Comments •
June 28, 2006
Category: Weirdness
I mentioned that cringe-inducing hemipenectomy that some spiders do…well, Stan Schwarz had to one-up me and sent a link to an image of an example of full genital splitting (if you click that link, you're probably safe; it's a very...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:32 PM • 66 Comments •
Category: Humor
I would have taken Bérubé's Transhumanist test seriously, but when I hit the last option my brain locked up and crashed hard. It took hours to download and restore the backup. Thanks heaps, Michael!...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 4:46 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Science
Maybe half of my audience here will be familiar with this problem. You're a man, and you're hauling this massive, ummm, package around in your pants everywhere you go. Other men fear you, while the women worship you…yet at...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 1:06 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Weblogs
This is becoming a regular occurrence: someone is trying to bomb my email address again, with 5-10,000 junk emails pouring in each hour. Look, fool, this is a waste of effort: the effect is that the activity monitor on my...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:45 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Humor
He was training to scale Mt Everest!...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:37 AM • 8 Comments •