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Friday Cephalopod: Wonderporn!
Posted by PZ Myers on October 18, 2013 Oooh, those glossy thick pages. The bright colors that pop. The action shots. The extreme closeups. I admit it: I have an addiction to aquarist magazines. You’ve gotta check out CORAL: the reef & marine aquarium magazine, especially this issue, the one with the big bold feature on “WRASSES”. Turn to page 70. Oooh, baby.…
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Is yours this pretty?
Posted by PZ Myers on October 14, 2013 microRNAs and cancer
Posted by PZ Myers on October 12, 2013 I’m trying to raise money for the The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and I promised to do a few things if we reached certain goals. I said I’d write a post microRNAs and cancer if you raised $7500. And you did, so I did. I kept my clothes on this time, though, so here’s a…
Friday Cephalopod: Marquess of Queensberry Rules, Sirrah!
Posted by PZ Myers on October 11, 2013 A hopeless muddle
Posted by PZ Myers on October 8, 2013 James May, one of the presenters on Top Gear, is trying his hand at providing a little science education. I want to say…please stop. Here he is trying to answer the question, “Are humans still evolving?” In the end he says the right answer — yes they are! — but the path he takes to…
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: I think she might be sending a message
Posted by PZ Myers on October 7, 2013 I don’t know why Mary suddenly thinks highlighting a giant man-killing hornet would be appropriate… …but I’m not going to argue with her.
Stones, glass houses, etc.
Posted by PZ Myers on October 4, 2013 John Bohannon of Science magazine has developed a fake science paper generator. He wrote a little, simple program, pushes a button, and gets hundreds of phony papers, each unique with different authors and different molecules and different cancers, in a format that’s painfully familiar to anyone who has read any cancer journals recently. The goal…
The truth about lorises
Posted by PZ Myers on October 4, 2013 The latest celebrity fad is getting pet lorises. They’re adorable! They have such big eyes and a funny face! And look, they like to get tickled! Aww, so cute. I want one. At least, that seems to be the typical response in followers of pop culture. Anna Nekaris, a professor of primate conservation at Oxford…
This cat is going to be insufferable
Posted by PZ Myers on October 4, 2013 This cat is going to be insufferable You may have heard we’ve got this satanic feline padding about the house now, getting into mischief — she has discovered my collection of cephalopodiana, and her favorite toy is one of my stuffed octopuses that she wrestles and bats around the floor. It’s like she’s rubbing it…
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: What what spider butt!
Posted by PZ Myers on October 1, 2013