Everyone must read this article about ‘Joel's Army’ and be afraid. It's a movement by radical Dominionists to build an informal paramilitary organization (at this time, it seems to be more attitude than organization) to prepare to fight to...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:26 PM • 236 Comments •
Category: Carnivals
But egads, it's hard work keeping up with the Elizabethan chatter required of the job, all in a day's work putting down yet another pretentious eruption of elitist bastards. Most cruelly mock and rip and shred...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 5:00 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Entertainment
You can watch it here. She did as well as she could, but whoa…this is a perfect example of how Stephen Colbert will tromp all over an interview for comic effect....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 4:51 PM • 52 Comments •
Category: Personal
It's some stranger!...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 2:19 PM • 57 Comments •
Category: Science
Wow…so have you heard about this result? One goal of regenerative medicine is to instructively convert adult cells into other cell types for tissue repair and regeneration. Although isolated examples of adult cell reprogramming are known, there is no...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:50 PM • 34 Comments •
Category: Religion
Integrity Bank in Georgia decided to build their business model on Christian principles. Integrity's employees regularly prayed before meetings or in branch lobbies with customers, while the bank gave 10 percent of its net income to charities."We felt if we...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:17 AM • 67 Comments •
Category: Carnivals
Hey, there's some cool stuff out there: A new one! Carnival of Evolution #1 I and the Bird #82 Humanist Symposium #24 Carnival of the Liberals #72 The Skeptics' Circle And of course, if there's anything else you want to...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:52 AM • 50 Comments •
Category: Academics
I mentioned this before, but time is running out and the full allotment of money hasn't been used up yet. If you go to the Big Think site and watch a video about inspiring scientists, Pfizer will spend a dollar...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 4:20 PM • 24 Comments •
Category: Cephalopods
Sepioteuthis lessoniana Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 1:20 PM • 37 Comments •
Category: Politics
So McCain has picked Sarah Palin as VP. Supposedly she has some credibility as a good choice for dealing with energy issues, but near as I can tell she's of the drill-in-marginal-areas school, not someone who's going to pursue alternative...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:46 AM • 450 Comments •