PZ Myers
Mythcon and the annoyingly skewed goals of the Sargoon brigades
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Here's a good review of the cost of reproduction by Grazyna Jasienska. Dawkins whould have read it before making his simplistic pronouncement.
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0615
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Transcript here:
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/10/17/the-gamete-delusion
Transcript here:
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/08/13/oh-god-no-not-this-question-again
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We didn't find very many. Still, it's good to appreciate the work our facilities management crew does for us. Thanks to Jason for leading us on a tour!
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Today, Elizabeth Frias and I set up and tested our time lapse rig, and made our first timelapse recording of a brief snippet of spider activity. Don't expect much, it's a trial run.
We just cut a slit in an egg sac that's near hatching to expose the babies, and recorded about 6 hours of twitchiness.
Gear:
Wild M3 stereoscope with a trinoc
Canon t5i
Intervalometer
Recorded at approximately 120x speed
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I have to wonder about the fate of any rotting flesh left out in the open. It's going to be a feast for these guys!
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Transcript here:
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/29/when-they-said-pathetic-posturing-little-wimp-i-thought-they-were-talking-about-me
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/05/21/oh-yuckthat-was-an-awful-paper-by-krylov-and-her-cronies
I am astonished at the fact that these people would put their names on such an astonishingly bad paper!
Abbot, D.; Bikfalvi, A.; BleskeRechek, A.L.; Bodmer, W.; Boghossian, P.; Carvalho, C.M.; Ciccolini, J.; Coyne, J.A.; Gauss, J.; Gill, P.M.W.; Jitomirskaya, S.; Jussim, L.; Krylov, A.I.; Loury, G.C.; Maroja, L.; McWhorter, J.H.; Moosavi, S.; Nayana Schwerdtle, P.; Pearl, J.; QuintanillaTornel, M.A.; Schaefer, H.F., III; Schreiner, P.R.; Schwerdtfeger, P.; Shechtman, D.; Shifman, M.; Tanzman, J.; Trout, B.L.; Warshel, A.; West, J.D. In Defense of Merit in Science. Journal of Controversial Ideas 2023, 3(1), 1; doi:10.35995/jci03010001.
Also commendably mentioned:
The Truth Project
sites.google.com/view/truthproject/about?authuser=0
An American Crisis: the Lack of Black Men in Medicine
J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (2017) 4:317–321
DOI 10.1007/s40615-017-0380-y
Advancing Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEMM Organizations
nap.nationalacademies.org/download/26803
Mark Carey's reflections on "feminist glaciology"
science.org/content/article/qa-author-feminist-glaciology-study-reflects-sudden-appearance-culture-wars
Decolonizing Science Toolkit
nature.com/collections/giaahdbacj
UMN Morris 60th Commencement - Full Ceremony (includes the full performance by the Northern Wood Singers)
youtube.com/watch?v=aw8jIVyNEfE
A great criticism of the paper:
The Fake ‘Left-Wing Attack on Science’
prospect.org/politics/2023-05-16-fake-left-wing-attack-science
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The guy babbling about his wood is named Graham Pettis -- he has a bunch of anti-evolution videos which are either a) utter nonsense like the one here, or b) rehashed YEC stuff from AiG. Don't go picking on him, he has enough problems.
Transcript here:
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/22/the-argument-from-my-piece-of-wood-hasnt-evolved-eyeballs
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freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/07/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-those-who-think-everything-is-binary-and-those-who-dont
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I already jumped on David Swift, here:
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/03/07/creationist-thinks-evo-devo-refutes-evolution
Transcript here:
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/04/01/leave-rudy-raff-alone-he-disliked-creationists-intensely
Transcript here:
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/03/25/dammit-richard
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The video I'm criticizing:
youtube.com/watch?v=2p4TpTWneWw
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I'm against it.
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The script is here:
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/12/25/i-had-to-say-what-i-think-of-jesus-mythicism
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freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/12/11/creationist-tried-to-appropriate-eric-h-davidson-hope-they-regret-it
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A few references to GRNs
EVOLUTIONARY BIOSCIENCE AS REGULATORY SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21320483
Davidson obit: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1518876112
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Kind of a transcript here:
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/10/23/who-the-heck-is-gilbert-ling
You can find all the garbage science you could want here:
gilbertling.org
pollacklab.org
mandarinwater.com/en/science/h3o2
greensmoothie.com/water/pollack
You'd be far better off picking up an introductory biology textbook, though. Or go here:
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Get one for yourself here:
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It says "sewer camera". That's not what I'm using it for. I have higher aspirations.
It works pretty well, although the cameraman needs more practice. One catch: it produces AVI files that give my Mac conniptions, producing glitchy, flashing videos. You can fix it by massaging the AVIs and converting them to MP4s right here:
express.adobe.com/tools/convert-to-mp4
I'm going to practice using it some more later, which means…more maggoty videos to come.
Two warnings:
Damn it, everyone was firing up their lawn mowers while I was trying to record this. I was eager to try it, though, so I charged ahead.
I am learning that you need a slow hand to work this camera, and I whipped it around too much. If it makes you nauseous, well, you are warned, and that's perfectly appropriate for a video looking at rotting garbage.
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It is what the title says: my compost bin is extraordinarily productive in producing maggots, which makes the spiders living in there very happy. The resolution here isn't great -- I used my el cheapo camera, since I was plunging it down in close to the writhing mass of larvae. If anyone insists, I suppose I could redo this with a reasonably good macro lens.
Everything is real time -- no time-lapse. That's how fast they move! Also, listen carefully and you can hear them eating. It sounds a bit like soggy rice krispies.
It's only a minute long, so don't worry, it ends quickly. If anyone also insists, I could record a much longer video.
No one will insist.
Shot on an iPhone using a clip-on 15x lens. #shorts
stream.org/some-honest-questions-for-atheists
Ugh, I didn't look him up ahead of time. As expected, he's a terrible human being.
rationalwiki.org/wiki/Michael_Brown
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Transcript will be posted here after it airs:
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/07/05/every-time-he-just-gets-worse-and-worse
Before anyone asks: they are 1.2mm long. Tiny.
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I know it's not my usual thing, but we did look for spiders while we were there. Not very successfully. It's a big stone barn! Not much for spider prey to live on, so it's kind of a spider desert.
There's a MNopedia article on the barn:
mnopedia.org/structure/frank-schott-barn-stevens-county
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Warning: It was triggered by a Jordan Peterson fan trying to tell me I don't understand how science works.
Transcript is here:
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/06/15/creeping-mendelism
Here's a related video on Bad Genetics:
youtube.com/watch?v=uDeNDX4geXo
Genetic Determinism in the Genetics Curriculum:
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11191-017-9900-8
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