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If, like me, you have been left a little confused by the explosion in studies of human migration based on inheritance of the Y chromosome, be prepared to be sorted out. The Bradshaw Foundation has a wonderful animated map that shows the various migration routes, their timing, and what was happening on the global weather [...]

Over on Pharyngula, PZ Myers still has no time for the coinage “bright”. And I’ve got to say, I’m still with him on this one. I think it is a daft term, for all the reasons brought up in the interminable comments to his post. I am an atheist. I may be a bright atheist [...]

Indietits is quite simply the best thing about logging on to my computer every morning. OK, so I don’t get some of the more obscure musical references — which are a bit yoof for me — but the guy is completely on the money. Also totally cool is Sadie Ryan over at Blogsford, with a [...]

Pharyngula has unearthed a nice little creationist rip-off, this time by The Other Side. Lying, stealing, and misrepresentation are common creationist values, I guess—Allah must endorse theft. They have no intellectual merit that they can contribute, so they have to resort to pilfering from evolutionists. Although, maybe we can justify it by comparing it to [...]

More, indeed more than you might possibly want, on the delights of asparagus. Those who adore asparagus, it turns out, tend to be “dramatic, theatrical people who like to be the centre of attention,” says Hirsch. They’re also “lively, enthusiastic, flirtatious, provocative and seductive,” with a penchant for “flights of romantic fantasy.” Thanks Luigi.

We’re not in the same game, I know, but in the über-game that is the modern blog, Neddie has just wiped the floor with not just me but everyone else as well. Go read Urban Legends for a Post-Social-Network-Analysis Age, but not with a beverage in your mouth.

Just go and read Neil Shubin’s essay over on John Brockman’s Edge site. The take-home message of this essay is a simple one: The transition of animals from water to land in the Devonian period, 370 million years ago, was profoundly important in one sense and entirely trivial in another. It had a major impact [...]

… and considerably better written than the original. P.Z. Myers may (or may not) be the author of a fun and games spoof on a certain best-selling book hated by the Catholic Church. Technorati Tags: evolution, fun

Of course, I should have been working, not reading an article on why people procrastinate.