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Mary’s Monday Metazoan: The antithesis of January in Minnesota
Posted by PZ Myers on January 8, 2013 (via RENCTAS, an organization that fights wild animal trafficking in Brazil)
Let’s make Houston cancer quack Burzynski pay!
Posted by PZ Myers on January 6, 2013 We’re coming up on Burzynski’s 70th birthday — it’s a bit ironic that the man responsible for so many shattered hopes has had such a long life himself — and there is a plan to remind him of the grief he has caused. Burzynski, if you’ve forgotten, is the guy who claims to have a…
Friday Cephalopod: And the champion is…
Posted by PZ Myers on January 4, 2013 Last spring, the All England Squid Fishing Championships took place, in which hundreds of fishermen strove to catch the largest squid. Unfortunately, the weather was not conducive to good fishing, and they caught nothing. Well, except for one person who discovered this cute little guy cling to his jig. The winner! This gives me hope.…
Botanical Wednesday: It’s a hard season
Posted by PZ Myers on January 3, 2013 (via Garden Photos)
Briefing from the radioactive badlands of the American Southwest, 1954
Posted by PZ Myers on January 2, 2013 [We are fortunate to have this transcript, taken by a company stenographer, from one of the early efforts of the resistance to instruct an army company in tactics. Although we now have more sophisticated technologies to hold these invaders in check, it is instructive too see how the American military in the 1950s struggled to…
Friday Cephalopod: Home
Posted by PZ Myers on December 28, 2012 I am actually staying home for several weeks, and it feels so good and relaxing. So this is kind of a self-portrait, I think. (via)
Fishing for meaning in a dictionary of genes
Posted by PZ Myers on December 27, 2012 I’ve constricted my anus 100 times, and it isn’t helping! I’m still feeling extremely cranky about this story from the NY Times. Scientists intend to sequence Adam Lanza’s DNA. They’re looking for genetic markers for mass murder. Why? Because some scientists are stupid. Some researchers, like Dr. Arthur Beaudet, a professor at the Baylor College…
Botanical Wednesday: So that’s what a tree looks like to a fish
Posted by PZ Myers on December 26, 2012 (via NatGeo)
The Gumby Gambit
Posted by PZ Myers on December 21, 2012 Tom Bethell is a fellow traveller with the Intelligent Design creationists of the Discovery Institute; he often publishes on their website, and he’s the author of quite a few books questioning the dogma of science. He also thinks he’s a polymath: he wrote Questioning Einstein: Is Relativity Necessary?, which claims that Einstein was wrong, and…
Friday Cephalopod: NOM NOM NOM, on the soft shell
Posted by PZ Myers on December 21, 2012 See last week’s cephalopod for context. (via r/aww)