Paul Z. Myers, an associate professor of science and math at the University of Minnesota at Morris, is something of an accidental blogger: He only started after setting up a Web site for students enrolled in one of his courses.
“When the class ended, it was just sitting there,” he says of his blog, now called Pharyngula. “I started typing and haven’t stopped for three years now.” Mr. Myers’s site is now the most visited science blog on the Web—and its creator was profiled this week by Minnesota Public Radio.
How does a blog on developmental biology become such a big hit? Injecting a bit of politics into the proceedings doesn’t hurt: Mr. Myers, who bills himself on the blog as a “godless liberal,” mixes strongly worded attacks on creationism and intelligent design in with other “random biological ejaculations.” —Brock Read
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