I've been calling these posts " Journal Clubs" in honor of the kind of small-group discussion of the literature that formed the backbone of my scientific education (past and present). One of my main goals in this blog is to help non-scientists (Christian readers in particular) understand science and God's world, by reviewing and explaining recently-published scientific research. Now we'll see whether this expansion into a new niche will result in an adaptive radiation or a mass extinction. Steve Martin at An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution I'd like to infect ERV, but she's already been kissed, and she's a busy grad student, so I'm going to target Christians for infection. I think this is a blow to my viability, but we'll let God PZ decide. I'm leaving this one in, but I've never seen this fine piece of cinematic art, or any other B-movie in the horror genre, and I've already used up my two mutations. The best B-movie in 1980's horror films is: "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe The best scary story in romantic short stories is:
The best scary movie in sociopolitical dystopias is: My grandparent is The Anterior Commissure My great-grandparent is A Blog Around the Clock My great-great-grandparent is Flying Trilobite My great-great-great-grandparent is Metamagician and the Hellfire Club. Going to be a function of both the interest your well-honed questions generate and the number of successful attempts at reproducing them. Remember, though, your success as a Darwinian replicator is going to be measured by the propagation of your variants, which is Please do include a link back to the blog you got them from, to simplify tracing the ancestry, and include these instructions.įinally, pass it along to any number of your fellow bloggers. Then answer your possibly mutant set of questions. * You must have at least one question in your set, or you've gone extinct, and you must be able to answer it yourself, or you're not viable. * You can add a completely new question of your choice to the end of the list, as long as it is still in the form "The best in is.". For instance, you could change "The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is." to "The best time travel novel in Westerns is.", or "The best time travel movie in SF/Fantasy is.", or "The best romance novel in SF/Fantasy is.". * You can mutate either the genre, medium, or subgenre of any one question. Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two of these operations: There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, "The best in is.". The meme started over at Pharyngula, where you can read about its origins. I know he wants to be a transitional fossil, but I doubt he wants to be an evolutionary dead-end, so I'll help him out just this once. Brian over at Laelaps tagged me maybe he's annoyed about my suggestion to his profs that they assign him more homework, or maybe he's indignant at my mention of the RU Screw. About a week and a half ago, I was infected with an evolving blog meme, and I think the only way to get better is to pass it on.