Last exam of the semester given.
Last pile of exams to be graded glaring at me balefully.
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Last exam of the semester given.
Last pile of exams to be graded glaring at me balefully.
Pamela Geller and Geert Wilders are awful, terrible, no good people.
Gamergaters are harassers and scum bags, no doubt about it.
But there is no justification for committing, or threatening to commit, violence against them.
I am so sorry. But my CFI-LA talk is now online.
Were you all following the big fight yesterday? No, not the overhyped, overpaid sight of two rather repellent grown men pounding each other, but the one between Sam Harris and Noam Chomsky. I wouldn’t be surprised if you missed it, or tuned out after the first couple of blows, because they were grossly mismatched, and it was kind of a rout.
Here’s a round-by-round summary.
We’re going to find out. Red Dwarf is coming back, with the original cast.
Does anyone else remember that comic book? It was about the far future, 4000 AD, at a time when humanoid robots are ubiquitous, and they go bad, very bad. Magnus was a human with amazing martial arts abilities, who’d run around in every issue destroying the robots with his bare hands. That was pretty much the theme of the entire comic book: page after page of Magnus demolishing robots. He’d often rip their heads off, and then you’d get a panel with the standard sound effect of a robot getting decapitated: “SQUEEEEE!”
If you’ve ever wondered where that word came from, I think that’s it.
It would be a great comic book to turn into a movie, except that it’s already been done. It’s called The Avengers: Age of Ultron.
That paper with a grossly sexist review? We now know the journal: it was PLOS ONE. And they are on it.
In my previous post about Paul Nelson’s weirdly ignorant view of nematode evolution, Kevin Anthoney made a prescient comment:
Remember that Nelson’s got this bizarre linear view of evolution which starts with a single cell creature, which evolves into a creature with a few cells, which evolves into one with a few more cells, and so on until you reach the 1031 cells in the nematode today. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Nelson thought that the creature at the 150 cell stage in this process had to be like a modern nematode at the 150 cell stage of development.
The Discovery Institute has responded. I got as far as the massive projection in the following paragraph before giving up.
