Star of scienceblogs.com : Pharyngula
I do not remember how I came across science blogs nor more specifically ‘pharyngula’. Probably through a link from Richard Dawkins website.
Whatever; but http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ will easily qualify as my most favourite blog. This is one blog which I visit every time I log on to the net. Pharyngula is the blog run by PZ Myers, a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota. His blogs are a mixture of science, skepticism, rationality, concern for fellow men and more importantly laced with humour.
One of his most humorous posts relate his experience of being expelled from a screening of a creationis movie Expelled. Immediately he blogged about this from a mall too impatient to wait to get back to his hotel room. This post was so funny and it was on the top of scienceblogs maximum hits chart for quite a while. No wonder he was amused at being expelled because his guest Richard Dawkins was allowed to attend. In fact both of them had provided interviews for the movie. Hilarious to say the least. http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/expelled.php#more
Another interesting post relates the the face off between Sanal Edamaruku, president of Rationalist International from India and a Pandit Surinder Sharma, a so called Tantrik. Though it was telecast by India TV, a hindi news channel, I heard of it only through this blog. Sanal’s easy and confident manner is a treat to watch as against the serious and pompous tantrik. Watch it at http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/om_lingalingalinalinga_kilikil.php#more
PZ Myer’s fascination for Cephalopods is infectious. He comes out as a concerned decent human being, a rationalist, a skeptic and someone who is in awe of science. This could be easily seen by the avid commenters in his blog. In short I would say someone whom Carl Sagan would be proud of.
Hats off to you, PZ Myers. Awesome blog. May your tribe increase.
What on earth is ‘pharyngula’, you wonder. Well check on
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula.
.
I do not remember how I came across science blogs nor more specifically ‘pharyngula’. Probably through a link from Richard Dawkins website.
Whatever; but http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ will easily qualify as my most favourite blog. This is one blog which I visit every time I log on to the net. Pharyngula is the blog run by PZ Myers, a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota. His blogs are a mixture of science, skepticism, rationality, concern for fellow men and more importantly laced with humour.
One of his most humorous posts relate his experience of being expelled from a screening of a creationis movie Expelled. Immediately he blogged about this from a mall too impatient to wait to get back to his hotel room. This post was so funny and it was on the top of scienceblogs maximum hits chart for quite a while. No wonder he was amused at being expelled because his guest Richard Dawkins was allowed to attend. In fact both of them had provided interviews for the movie. Hilarious to say the least. http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/expelled.php#more
Another interesting post relates the the face off between Sanal Edamaruku, president of Rationalist International from India and a Pandit Surinder Sharma, a so called Tantrik. Though it was telecast by India TV, a hindi news channel, I heard of it only through this blog. Sanal’s easy and confident manner is a treat to watch as against the serious and pompous tantrik. Watch it at http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/03/om_lingalingalinalinga_kilikil.php#more
PZ Myer’s fascination for Cephalopods is infectious. He comes out as a concerned decent human being, a rationalist, a skeptic and someone who is in awe of science. This could be easily seen by the avid commenters in his blog. In short I would say someone whom Carl Sagan would be proud of.
Hats off to you, PZ Myers. Awesome blog. May your tribe increase.
What on earth is ‘pharyngula’, you wonder. Well check on
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula.
.
