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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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February 28, 2009
Category: Entertainment
Long timers here may recall that I mentioned this cool video by Nina Paley called Sita Sings the Blues several years ago. At that time, all that was available were some short but very pretty clips. Good news! Sita...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:48 PM • 177 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Sunday morning at 9am, tune in to Atheist Talk radio to listen to Massimo Pigliucci. This should be very good — Massimo is an evolutionary biologist and an atheist, and is also full of interesting ideas....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:12 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Who knew that all you had to do is change the definition of "atheist"? Put on your sunglasses and visit this site—the color scheme is classic fluorescent kook—and you will discover that atheists are people who deny the divinity of...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 6:35 PM • 893 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Tap, tap. Can you hear me? You sure? I heard that International Authorities were going to disappear me. If you hadn't heard that, you missed one of the most hilarious comment threads ever. After we made light of a...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 1:51 PM • 364 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Media
The blogs have talked about Bobby Jindal's credentials as an exorcist for some time, and now, finally, after Jindal's comical performance on national TV the other night, the mainstream media is taking notice. His dalliance with exorcism gets a...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:23 AM • 169 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
February 27, 2009
Category: Kooks
I got a package in the mail today! It was from the Catholic League! It included a personal, signed note from Bill Donohue! It also said "SWAK" and all the 'i's were dotted with hearts! (Oh, OK, I made up...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 2:35 PM • 190 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
An analysis of the consumption of internet pornography found that there are only small differences between states, but that there are some patterns. The patterns will not surprise anyone. The biggest consumer, Utah, averaged 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 1:37 PM • 592 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Speaking of incessant, grating whines…here's another Minnesota pest, Michele Bachmann. She spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (by invitation…how deranged have the Republicans become, anyway?) and offered this jewel of logic: I just wondered that if our founders thought...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 1:16 PM • 118 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
All you Minnesotans should know by now that Richard Dawkins will be speaking at UMTC, in Northrup Auditorium, at 7pm on Wednesday, 4 March…next week! If you haven't got your tickets yet, you can join Minnesota Atheists and get one...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:58 PM • 68 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
I had to read it just for the title alone: "Harmonic Convergence in the Love Songs of the Dengue Vector Mosquito". It's got romance, it's got harmony, it's got singing, and best of all, it has that delicious dramatic tension...
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