Top 10 myths about evolution
Here’s a cool book I’d like to look into. I read about it on evolvgen at Seed Magazine’s scienceblogs.com site. The book is The Top Ten Myths about Evolution by Cameron McPherson Smith and Charles Sullivan. What I love about it is that the title sound like it’s going to debunk evolution, but it actually debunks creationism! Here’s the skinny from the official website:... »
Oh dear god, it has begun.
By “it” I refer, of course, to the annual office germ exchange that leaves coworkers cowering in their cubes, vigorously clawing at their own hands with sanitizing alcohol scrubs and popping Vitamin C tablets like antidepressants at Christmas dinner. Half the office was sick yesterday. The other half today. I woke up with Brillo pads lodged in the back of my throat, but I dragged mysel... »
Unbunching My Panties (?)
I am one of those skeptics who get their panties in a bunch about religion. But, in the infamous words of Sheryl Crow, a change might do me good. It’s hard to resist. When there is so much evidence that flatly contradicts literal “truths†of religion juxtaposed with condescension from zealots, most of whom have never studied any religion outside the one into which they happened to be born, m... »
ROCK THE VOTE!
OH my. I’m just so . . . so . . . titillated would be the word, I suppose. I previously mentioned the hot contest between PZ Myers of Pharyngula and Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy — well, it just got hotter. PZ has officially agreed that if, nay when, he loses, he will pose in the 2008 Skepdude Calendar as punishment for insulting Phil’s photo for this year. Were the impossible to h... »
