Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier — so long as I'm the dictator.
George W. Bush, Dec. 19, 2000
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September 30, 2007
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The neurobiology of intelligence Where do people get the idea that intelligence has a biological basis? Oh yeah, from those geneticists, whose research has shown that intelligence levels can be inherited. One fairly new development for researching intelligence is through...
Posted by Lua Yar at 11:54 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
Chris Clarke callously infected me with a meme. I'm supposed to answer these five questions. An interesting animal I hadAn interesting animal I ateAn interesting animal in the MuseumAn interesting thing I did with or to an animalAn interesting animal...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:28 PM • 49 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Molecular Biology
It's been quite busy last week. Despite the Neurobiology class didn't meet that week, my other classes kept my hands full. I blame it on two exams and a paper due during the week of Homecoming. Since I don't have...
Posted by Mark_Antimony at 4:25 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
My sermon-skit was too clever by half and the point seems to have been missed by some — so maybe you'd prefer the simpler clarity of Revere's Sunday Sermonette or the straight-ahead, full-throttle atheism of the latest Carnival of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:44 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communicating science
Now Matt Nisbet weighs in, and Mike Haubrich gives an amazing summary of not just what I said, but what I meant to say. One thing I referred to I called the "science education extinction vortex", and referred to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:46 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness • Humor
THE SCENE: A circular room cut deep into stone; magma pits bubble left and right, all is lit by roaring torches that cast dark, flickering shadows. In the center, the Cephalopod Throne. THE CAST: PZ Myers broods on his...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:00 AM • 86 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 29, 2007
Category: Entertainment
I forgot to tell you all the most important gossip I heard at the Bell last night. I had a scant few minutes to talk to Jim Kakalios, who has gone all Hollywood on us, doing consulting work for the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:57 PM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
My crank mail can be categorized into several categories. There are the short, barely literate splutterings of abuse; the weird rants and threats; the reiteration of long-dead creationist talking points (yeah, I get email where the writer thinks he's trumped...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:00 PM • 113 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communicating science
Chris Mooney has his summary post up, in which he predictably and incorrectly declares victory for the forces of empty rhetoric, and Greg Laden correctly declares victory for the puppies and small children, which, of course, was our side....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:00 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communicating science
If you've been curious to know more about Carl Zimmer, he's having a conversation with John Horgan on Bloggingheads.tv....
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:28 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Communicating science
As expected, the Laden/Myers tag team utterly crushed the Nisbet/Mooney team. The decision was unanimous. Only a few crazy people might have found the framers at all persuasive. (It helps, too, that Nisbet/Mooney are on a plane flying away and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:46 AM • 51 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 28, 2007
Category: Communicating science • Local
All right, homies, I hope some of you are planning to show for the big rumble at the Bell Museum tonight. I've arrived, and I'm flexing and stretching on the home turf, getting ready … in other words, I'm hanging...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:48 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Andrew Brown is so kind: he calls me one of America's most notorious atheists in an opinion piece on the wretched Archbishop Chimoio. He also makes an interesting game theoretic argument that, in purely pragmatic terms, the Catholic Church in...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:02 PM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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As one of my fellow classmates has already described in part, we have proposed to study the effects of sleep deprivation and alcohol on zebrafish. We have a good idea of how to execute experimentation on this topic. The meaning...
Posted by Blue_Expo at 12:24 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Oh, to be young again and brave: I'm impressed with these high school students who protested the American loyalty oath to a god: About 50 Boulder High School students walked out of class Thursday to protest the daily reading of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:26 AM • 99 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Helicocranchia sp. Figure from The Deep(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Claire Nouvian....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:15 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
