Cleesing the God Gene 14 Sep 2008 If I weren’t such a reductionist mechanist, I’d probably find this very very funny. And what Cleese does to things deserves its own verb. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-M-vnmejwXo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&fs=1] Evolution Humor
Biology What is systematics and what is taxonomy? 5 Feb 201123 Jul 2023 Over the past few years there have been increasing numbers of calls for governments to properly fund systematics and taxonomy (and a number of largely molecular-focused biologists insisting they can do the requisite tasks with magic molecule detectors, so don’t fund old-school, fund new-fangled-tech). But I think that there is… Read More
Evolution A prehumous Darwin Award for Michelle Bachmann 2 May 2009 One of the things I don’t like about the Darwin Awards is that it presumes the only way to gain one is to remove yourself from the gene pool directly by dying. But that would be a Wallace Award. Darwin knew, as do we, that there are many ways one… Read More
Creationism and Intelligent Design Wilkins on screen 10 Nov 2009 Proving that I have a great face for radio, you can see the second (but not for some reason, the first) of two video interviews (vlogs) that I did for NYC Atheists recently. There’s a really good shot of my right shoulder giving a talk about one third of the… Read More
Don’t worry, John. We have now developed a pill that can help you combat reductionist mechanist syndrome. We don’t know how it works, though.
Don’t worry, John. We have now developed a pill that can help you combat reductionist mechanist syndrome. We don’t know how it works, though.
Don’t worry, John. We have now developed a pill that can help you combat reductionist mechanist syndrome. We don’t know how it works, though.
Don’t worry, John. We have now developed a pill that can help you combat reductionist mechanist syndrome. We don’t know how it works, though.
Don’t worry, John. We have now developed a pill that can help you combat reductionist mechanist syndrome. We don’t know how it works, though.
to cleesify:verb: to hold forth humorously on a subject in a pompous, pseudo-intellectual and slightly silly manner cleesification:noun: the result of cleesifying cleesified:adjective: cleesifly:adverb: origin: derived from the surname of legendary English humorist, actor, author and silly person John Cleese.
to cleesify:verb: to hold forth humorously on a subject in a pompous, pseudo-intellectual and slightly silly manner cleesification:noun: the result of cleesifying cleesified:adjective: cleesifly:adverb: origin: derived from the surname of legendary English humorist, actor, author and silly person John Cleese.
Luckily, I have the “Even though I’m a reductionist mechanist I still find jokes making fun of reductionist mechanists funny” gene. 😀
Luckily, I have the “Even though I’m a reductionist mechanist I still find jokes making fun of reductionist mechanists funny” gene. 😀
Having recently met Rob Buckman, I have a John Cleese number of 2. I think that’s worth boasting about (I mean, it’s way better than having George W. Bush number of 2, which I also have).
Having recently met Rob Buckman, I have a John Cleese number of 2. I think that’s worth boasting about (I mean, it’s way better than having George W. Bush number of 2, which I also have).
Having recently met Rob Buckman, I have a John Cleese number of 2. I think that’s worth boasting about (I mean, it’s way better than having George W. Bush number of 2, which I also have).
Having recently met Rob Buckman, I have a John Cleese number of 2. I think that’s worth boasting about (I mean, it’s way better than having George W. Bush number of 2, which I also have).