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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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…it seems that it would take less than half a million years to evolve a good camera eye … It's no wonder 'the' eye has evolved at least 40 times independently around the animal kingdom … It is a geological blink.
Richard Dawkins
July 31, 2008
Category: Godlessness
I must confess to a cruel game with this post. I saw this poster and thought, "What? But most of these people weren't atheists!" Surely someone could do a far better job with this idea than that, and everyone...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:46 PM • 511 Comments •
Category: Humor
The gang at Bakersfield that ran one of the polls we contributed to has noticed, and they feel violated. Mildly. And with a little good humor. I guess we'll have to do it again sometime!...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:22 PM • 90 Comments •
Category: Books
I published a review in Nature this week, of Ken Miller's Only a Theory(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), and boy, was that a tough one. The catch was that I want the book to do well, and I definitely think it has a place...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:08 PM • 147 Comments •
Category: Science
Ontogenetic allometry in the fang in the front-fanged Causus rhombeatus (Viperidae) displaces the fang along the upper jaw. Scale bars, 1 mm. We note the change in relative size of the upper jaw subregions: i, anterior; ii, fang; iii,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:05 AM • 185 Comments •
Category: Pointless polls
Here's one way to foil a pharynguloid poll invasion: limit your poll answers to those that aren't even wrong. Try to answer the question of"When does life begin?" — your only choices are at birth, at conception, at some stage,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:50 AM • 235 Comments •
July 30, 2008
Category: Kooks
Perhaps you remember Karl — I ripped into an interview he did a while back. Well, "ripped into" is probably the wrong phrase — I pointed out several things I thought were quite good, and then tore up his...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:57 PM • 607 Comments •
Category: Administrative
No, not that kind of host. Our scheduled host for the Tangled Bank had to back out due to time constraints. If anyone wants to volunteer to host it next Wednesday, let me know and I'll forward the entries to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:34 PM • 161 Comments •
Category: Entertainment
The Michigan festival is apparently going to be showing BIll Maher's new movie, Religulous. I'd like to hear if it's any good, just to know how much I might suffer when I do go see it. And see it I...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:23 PM • 60 Comments •
Category: Organisms
I was asked to contribute to Forbes Magazine package on commuting — never mind that I live across the street from my job, and "commuting" has become a trivial, alien concept — so I had to talk about animals that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:37 PM • 50 Comments •
Category: Pointless polls
So how about this one: Should atheists be barred from public office? It's mostly going our way already, but would you believe a quarter of the votes so far say "yes"?...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:33 PM • 275 Comments •
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Starts With a Bang! 04.27.2012
Pharyngula 04.27.2012
Greg Laden's Blog 04.27.2012
