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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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We cannot take a step towards constructing an idea of God without the ascription of human attributes.
Herbert Spencer, Illustrations of Universal Progress (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1870), p. 442.
June 30, 2010
Category: Entertainment
He's tweaked the noses of those 'New Atheists', for sure! One of Gee's roles is as the editor of the Futures science fiction section in Nature, and he's proud to have published a story by Shelly Li, which actually is...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:45 PM • 99 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
Linum flavum...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:11 PM • 46 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Unless they're imprecatory, and from the other side. Christopher Hitchens has made an announcement. I have been advised by my physician that I must undergo a course of chemotherapy on my esophagus. This advice seems persuasive to me. I regret...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:57 PM • 135 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Development
Important clarification: CAH is a real and serious disease. There are no objections to pediatricians treating the physiological disorders in utero. However, lesbianism, traditionally masculine career choices, and disinterest in having children are not diseases…and the problem in this work...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:02 PM • 306 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Local
At first, it was a distressing slithery whisper, like a krait loosed in the room; then a sensation, an itch, as if an assassin were trickling arsenic into my ear; and then apparently the assassin decided to get sadistic and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:11 PM • 165 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
You've all been wondering, I'm sure, what a vampire penis looks like. We don't have a picture of one, since Twilight is still the domain of yearningly sexless (we hope!) tweens who are infatuated with the idea of love and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:39 AM • 95 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
Who remembers Robert Ardrey? I must shamefully confess that I was a fan back in the 1970s, when the 'killer ape' hypothesis was in the air. This was the idea that one of the things that made humans different and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:31 AM • 63 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Open Thread
The thread is dead, long live the thread! Now party on, dudes. (Current totals: 10,514 entries with 1,038,711 comments.)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:05 AM • 757 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Ah, the funny cartoon yesterday rankled the libertarian contingent again. I'll explain a few things that will get them fired up even more. Get over yourselves. Mocking libertarians does not bring me a swarm of traffic -- you're like a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:22 AM • 255 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 29, 2010
Category: Politics
You knew it was too good to be true. Julia Gillard has just announced that she is against gay marriage. The honeymoon is over, no more plaudits. At least we still have Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir to admire. And because it's Gillard,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:34 PM • 132 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
