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Friday Cephalopod: Self portrait
Posted by PZ Myers on December 7, 2012 It’s the last day of classes, after a very long and agonizing semester, and this guy looks how I feel: stressed, with gnashy tentacles and a livid complexion. I feel for any students who come to my office with questions about the final — I’m straining to be nice and helpful, but what I really…
αEP: Shut up and sing!
Posted by PZ Myers on December 5, 2012 This is one of a series of posts I’m working on over the next few days to criticize evolutionary psychology. More will be coming under the label αEP! Recently, Bob Costas, a sports announcer, spoke out about gun control. In reply, the right wing has been in a frenzy of denunciations — he should just…
Botanical Wednesday: Dracaena
Posted by PZ Myers on December 5, 2012 With a name like the villain in a fantasy novel, you knew it had to be twisted. (via Ongzi’s Secret Garden)
Friday Cephalopod: Leopards? Piffle.
Posted by PZ Myers on November 30, 2012 (via Flickr)
Botanical Wednesday: Those are cool Christmas tree decorations
Posted by PZ Myers on November 29, 2012 (via NatGeo)
Friday Cephalopod: Truckin’
Posted by PZ Myers on November 23, 2012 I’m just making my way through this weekend, taking care of business. (via Wired)
Aaargh! Physicists! Again!
Posted by PZ Myers on November 20, 2012 A while back, two physicists, Paul Davies and Charles Lineweaver, announced their explanation for cancer with a novel theory, which is theirs, that cancers are atavisms recapitulating in a Haeckelian reverse double backflip their premetazoan ancestry. They seemed very proud of their idea. I was aghast, as you might guess. They even claimed that human…
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: X-ray ray
Posted by PZ Myers on November 19, 2012 (via NatGeo)
The science of antediluvian plushies
Posted by PZ Myers on November 18, 2012 One creationist claim that’s commonly laughed at is this idea that 8 people could build a great big boat, big enough to hold all the ‘kinds’ of animals, and that those same 8 people were an adequate work force to maintain all those beasts for a year in a confined space on a storm-tossed ark.…
Friday Cephalopod: Giddyup, my great pink steed!
Posted by PZ Myers on November 16, 2012 WHO IS YOUR MASTER NOOOOOOW? (via the Monterey Bay Aquarium