15 thoughts on “Happy new year”

  1. I notice that there is one letter difference between Morpheus (re: “morphine” – sleep, and Orpheus (re: “orphan” – a voice crying in the wilderness”?

    I note that some group of conspiracy theorists is predicting catastrophe in 2012; anyone predicting anything beyond then (other than the galaxies Andromeda and Milky Way colliding several billion years from now)?

  4. Here’s to a less strident and more accommodating Jerry in 2011 ….. nah, fat chance … strident Jerry is way too cool!! …

  5. Emmdless forms most beaaautiufel.

    Frohe Neu Jahre
    Feliz Nueve A%ntilde;o
    Ha[[u meww yuear/\\

    Fuicl tjo9 leugpard;

  6. I’m thinking about getting a Binford 3000 Internet Forum Flame Thrower and stenciling on the side “Accommodate this!”

    Meanwhile, I’ll be playing StarCraft II until I’m all Zerged out.

  8. Thank you, Dr Coyne, for having this wonderful and fascinating blog, and for bringing this virtual community together.
    Happy new year. Here is to boots and kittens.

  9. A Happy New Year! to you as well. I was sleeping when the new year came in. Never could see the point of staying up late just to see another day arrive — or a year, a decade, a century or a millennium! Have a good one — and congratulations on your election as the head honcho of the Society for the Study of Evolution!

  11. Happy New Year to everybody. Thanks for all the insights and kittehs over the past year Jerry, look forward to more of the same this year.

  12. I wish happy mew year among other felis-citations!

    [If anyone wants to get angry at the religious instead, there is press release about research on anger at “God”:

    The notion of being angry with God goes back to ancient days. Such personal struggles are not new, but Case Western Reserve University psychologist Julie Exline began looking at “anger at God” in a new way. […]

    She and her colleagues report their results in the article, “Anger toward God: Social-Cognitive Predictors, Prevalence, and Links with Adjustment to Bereavement and Cancer” in the new issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. […]

    According to Exline’s findings, Protestants, African Americans, and older people tend to report less anger at God; people who do not believe in God may still harbor anger; and anger toward God is most distressing when it is frequent, intense, or chronic.

    Overcoming anger at God, she says, may require some of the same steps needed to resolve other anger issues.

    “People may benefit from reflecting more closely on the situation and how they see God’s role in it,” Exline suggests. “For example, they may become less angry if they decide that God was not actually responsible for the upsetting event, or if they can see how God has brought some meaning or benefit from a painful situation.” […]

    [My bold.]

    A researcher suggesting anger management involving an invisible skydaddy? Say it isn’t so! … oh, drat.]

    1. Anger at god. Well I suppose if you believe such a being exists then it sure as hell has a lot to answer for! I don’t know if I’d be angry at it though, I’d be sure it was evil through and through and should be opposed by anyone with any claim to decency, but there’s no point being angry with a scorpion for being a scorpion.

      I might be angry with the people telling lies about it being beneficient when it so obviously isn’t. I’d be angry at having been lied to for so long by people who should have had my best interests at heart, but not at god.

  14. One of my best finds in 2010: WEIT!
    Thank you very much for keeping this place going, hr. Coyne. And thanks to all commenters for not being too irritated at foreign non-scientists like moi.
    HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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