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Friday Cephalopod: Sparkle magic!
Posted by PZ Myers on April 18, 2014 Here’s something else oppressing Ken Ham
Posted by PZ Myers on April 15, 2014 He hates Tiktaalik. He hates it so much he even has a hard time spelling its name correctly. Tikaalik is again being popularized through the new PBS series "Your Inner Fish.” it’s really a desperate con job on the part of evolutionists who can’t defend their evolutionary fictional story. He actually surprises me a little…
Science conspires to make me feel really old now
Posted by PZ Myers on April 15, 2014 Virginia Hughes tells us about techniques to look inside the zebrafish brain. The gang at HHMI are using two photon imaging and clever image analysis to get very clear, sharp images of fluorescent neurons. Oy, that’s pretty. This old codger did some of that stuff, many years ago, but you know what we had to…
Mary’s Monday Metazoan MISANDRY
Posted by PZ Myers on April 14, 2014 That photo is from a lovely new documentary, with this trailer. However, I have to call attention to one troubling fact. “All these lemurs have one thing in common – from the little one to the very largest one – they all have female dominance. The females are the leaders. The females are the ones…
So go crawl into a dark Faraday cage and wait for civilization to collapse
Posted by PZ Myers on April 12, 2014 Salon sometimes, and with increasing frequency lately, publishes some genuinely pernicious crap. I notice they’ve been experimenting with click-baity titles and more lists (I am growing to hate lists on the internet), there is more and more gullible religious pandering, and some days I think they’re experience huffpo envy — ‘if only we were a…
Friday Cephalopod: Octopuses can be superheroes, too
Posted by PZ Myers on April 11, 2014 No! Not the list of stumpers again!
Posted by PZ Myers on April 9, 2014 There’s a common tactic used by creationists, and I’ve encountered it over and over again. It’s a form of the Gish Gallop: present the wicked evolutionist with a long list of assertions, questions, and non sequiturs, and if they answer with “I don’t know” to any of them, declare victory. It’s easy. We say “I…
Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Sad pangolin
Posted by PZ Myers on April 7, 2014 Say goodbye to another mammal being sacrificed on the altar of ‘traditional medicine’ — pangolin scales are consumed as medicine, their blood is used in tonics, their embryos are swallowed as aphrodisiacs, and they’re just generally eaten up. They’re also incredibly fragile, and cannot be farmed; they’re all caught in the wild and they usually…
Friday Cephalopod: "I shall battle & defeat this strangely phallic invader of my realm!"
Posted by PZ Myers on April 4, 2014 Mary’s Monday Metazoan: Why won’t you play with us?
Posted by PZ Myers on April 1, 2014