This past February we covered a proposed bill in South Dakota that would’ve prevented transgender students from using bathrooms and…
From: Bi Any Means
This documentary film shows public beheadings, floggings, mindless violence on women and clamp down on any one showing mildest dissent…
From: Nastik Deliberations
Ted and Rafael Cruz: Like Frightening Father, Like Scary Son. [caption id="attachment_395" align="alignnone" width="750"] Extremist antigay preacher Rafael Cruz groomed…
From: Affinity
A brief round up of the amazingly stupid and awful... [caption id="attachment_389" align="alignnone" width="800"] Rally to keep the Confederate flag…
From: Affinity
[caption id="attachment_342" align="alignnone" width="750"] State Sen. Mike Crane is calling on his fellow lawmakers to meet for a special session…
From: Affinity
[caption id="attachment_337" align="alignnone" width="750"] Governor Pat McCrory[/caption] North Carolina has faced intense pressure to repeal House Bill 2 from major…
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It is the fundamental right of a woman and the government should protect it. Lofty words from a court in…
From: Nastik Deliberations
The call for calling a spade a spade is slowly becoming a clamour. I’m encouraged to write this post by…
From: Anjuli Pandavar
Penis flaps When a baby boy comes out of the mother, emerging forth all slimy and hairy, ready to poop…
[caption id="attachment_277" align="alignnone" width="750"] Rev. Chris Donald calls for the Senate to defeat HB 1523 on March 23.[/caption] Mississippi is…
From: Affinity
Stephen Hsu thinks super intelligent humans are coming. He thinks this because he's very impressed with genetic engineering (he's a…
From: Pharyngula
Mostly, the killer whales native to Puget Sound are salmon eaters. But there are also transient orca who cruise through…
From: Pharyngula
I just told you about my brief history with the gaming community. I drifted away from it into something else,…
From: Pharyngula
I work in a lab which is filled with people with a Neuroscience and/or Molecular Biology background. I, however, arrived…
From: Thoughts of Crys
[caption id="attachment_1222" align="alignnone" width="1280"] Dictyostelium discoideum. Photographed by Usman Bashir (Queller/Strassmann Lab, Washington University in St. Louis). CC-BY-SA-4.0 License. Image…
From: Fierce Roller
Watch State Sen. John Milkovich make his case for creationism before the Louisiana legislature. He's a Democrat. I'm so embarrassed.…
From: Pharyngula
Almost. I would love to have an all-electric car, and the new Tesla Model 3 has been announced. It looks…
From: Pharyngula
The Squid Scientists take a photo of their baby animals, and unwittingly reveal what they're actually doing. Look behind the…
From: Pharyngula
My bride is 33 years old. Since she was 14, she has been having heart palpitations, here and there. Over the…
An Indian company has decided to tackle the problem of disposable cutlery, which is just one of the many things…
From: Thoughts of Crys
A non-Muslim who approaches the Qur’an is, by definition, free of the baggage with which a Muslim does the same.…
From: Anjuli Pandavar
A brief round up of the amazingly stupid and awful... [caption id="attachment_389" align="alignnone" width="800"] Rally to keep the Confederate flag…
From: Affinity
[caption id="attachment_380" align="alignnone" width="620"] Naeila El Shatir considers her cat Sherry to be part of the family. (CBC)[/caption] Thanks to…
From: Affinity
It takes E-85, has 15 seats for car-pooling, is white, requiring less AC usage in the hot summer months, and…
It's not often you see a prison program which works, but every now and then, someone gets it right. Prison…
From: Affinity
I've just been pointed towards David Brooks's http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/opinion/the-sexual-politics-of-2016.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share and Franklin Foer's http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/03/donald_trump_has_one_core_philosophy_misogyny.html Reading them gave me the weirdest sense of…
From: Anjuli Pandavar
[caption id="attachment_337" align="alignnone" width="750"] Governor Pat McCrory[/caption] North Carolina has faced intense pressure to repeal House Bill 2 from major…
From: Affinity
April is sexual assault and victim blaming awareness month. The #RedMyLips campaign is meant to raise awareness of the blatant…
A lot of people have been less than pleased with Rowling's Magic in North America, many of them Indigenous…
From: Affinity
Thanks, Dave Futrelle! Now I'm sleepy and nauseated! It seems that Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannopoulous (and an army of…
From: Pharyngula
indahs: dive, travel & photography | cities – cultures – ocean – marine life. Intransitive. Haiku Out of Africa…
From: Affinity
I came across this video on facebook and it made me squee https://www.facebook.com/335102703245555/videos/1093267017429116/?fref=nf I can't help loving every bit…
From: Thoughts of Crys
So hi! First of all: there is a Mythology Monday that's going to go up today, but I am also…
From: The Hispanic Atheist
Note: This is also an old post, but a follow-up to the patriotic mentality I've written before about one aspect…
From: Thoughts of Crys
April Is National Poetry Month In this, now, its twentieth year And cuttlefish types who have fun with their ink…
From: The Digital Cuttlefish
After yesterday's powerpuffing bonanza, a colleague of mine tells me (not without a touch of scorn) "oh, you mean like…
From: Thoughts of Crys
This week, my complicated dish of choice is a complete invention. It all started with last week's Easter Edition, which…
From: Thoughts of Crys
The West Indies beat England in the final of the World T20 tournament played in India in a manner that…
From: Mano Singham
Although wasp like in appearance, this is a thick-headed fly, Physocephala tibialis. Thanks, Tethys! This is a good opportunity to…
From: Affinity
Wonderful news from India. We are gifting the world a cure for cancer. I am bursting with "Indian Hindu "…
From: Nastik Deliberations
This should about wrap up TodayChristian's list of "unanswerable" questions, because we can do two questions in one post. Here's…
From: Alethian Worldview
A non-Muslim who approaches the Qur’an is, by definition, free of the baggage with which a Muslim does the same.…
From: Anjuli Pandavar
First of all: Who are the Pemon? The Pemon are a group of Indigenous Americans who live in Brazil, Venezuela,…
From: The Hispanic Atheist
TodayChristian's Question #8, on the list of "unanswerable" questions, is a three-fer. 8. What about miracles? What all the people who…
From: Alethian Worldview
Guest post by The Beast from Seattle [caption id="attachment_191" align="aligncenter" width="460"] The life of an Atheist (from Visconti's the Stranger)[/caption]…
From: Great American Satan
spiritual but not religious
Just think. You're sitting at home (or possibly sleeping in), playing video games or surfin' the web (or possibly taking…
From: Pharyngula
TodayChristian's 7th "unanswerable" question is probably supposed to be a real poser. 7. Where did the universe come from? This one's…
From: Alethian Worldview
They are not trustworthy news sites. They throw in satire and outright lies mingled with straight news, so that it…
From: Pharyngula
I've just been pointed towards David Brooks's http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/opinion/the-sexual-politics-of-2016.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share and Franklin Foer's http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/03/donald_trump_has_one_core_philosophy_misogyny.html Reading them gave me the weirdest sense of…
From: Anjuli Pandavar
If that's what it takes to get people to think critically Verify what you read before repeating it. Always a…
From: Thoughts of Crys
This past February we covered a proposed bill in South Dakota that would’ve prevented transgender students from using bathrooms and…
From: Bi Any Means
=AtG= Hello lovelies, Shiv here again. I hope you all had a lovely week, what with April Fool’s and something…
From: New Frontier
i log into the tumblr i oppress the cis --officialcisally It's International Down With Cis Day, suggested by tumblr user…
From: Great American Satan
I was a gamer 40 years ago (I wouldn't call myself one now, unless "plays games occasionally" is definitive of…
From: Pharyngula
This is from Amy Davis Roth at Skepchick: (note... this is an update about Kesha, who was ("allegedly") raped by…
The bananas were rotting in the fruit basket. The kids used to eat them like candy, especially when I was…
I've just been pointed towards David Brooks's http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/opinion/the-sexual-politics-of-2016.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share and Franklin Foer's http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/03/donald_trump_has_one_core_philosophy_misogyny.html Reading them gave me the weirdest sense of…
From: Anjuli Pandavar
April is sexual assault and victim blaming awareness month. The #RedMyLips campaign is meant to raise awareness of the blatant…
It seems the patriarchal Indian society is not yet ready to allow women to worship Lord Shani by entering the…
From: Nastik Deliberations
It is the fundamental right of a woman and the government should protect it. Lofty words from a court in…
From: Nastik Deliberations
indahs: dive, travel & photography | cities – cultures – ocean – marine life. Intransitive. Haiku Out of Africa…
From: Affinity
Who among us hasn't heard the (supposed) truism: "you can't fit a square peg into a round hole!" Of course…
From: Death to Squirrels
"Four Little Kittens", a Little Golden Book by Kathleen N. Daly, should be enjoyed for the colorful and soft illustrations…
From: Kittywhumpus
On his show Last Week Tonight, John Oliver says that the current system of financing congressional elections has resulted in…
From: Mano Singham
This was originally posted on The Asexual Agenda last week, and is thus written explicitly for ace audiences. If you…
From: A Trivial Knot
The bananas were rotting in the fruit basket. The kids used to eat them like candy, especially when I was…
It takes E-85, has 15 seats for car-pooling, is white, requiring less AC usage in the hot summer months, and…
April Is National Poetry Month In this, now, its twentieth year And cuttlefish types who have fun with their ink…
From: The Digital Cuttlefish
spiritual but not religious
Just think. You're sitting at home (or possibly sleeping in), playing video games or surfin' the web (or possibly taking…
From: Pharyngula
Wonderful news from India. We are gifting the world a cure for cancer. I am bursting with "Indian Hindu "…
From: Nastik Deliberations
On his show Last Week Tonight, John Oliver says that the current system of financing congressional elections has resulted in…
From: Mano Singham
The US Supreme Court issued an important unanimous 8-0 ruling today in a case involving voting rights. States are required…
From: Mano Singham
Ted and Rafael Cruz: Like Frightening Father, Like Scary Son. [caption id="attachment_395" align="alignnone" width="750"] Extremist antigay preacher Rafael Cruz groomed…
From: Affinity
News reports are emerging of the massive leak of documents (2.6 terabytes in size) from the Panamanian law firm Mossack…
From: Mano Singham
It's too much. The sheer volume of the Panama Papers may make its message indigestible -- 2.6 terabytes of data?…
From: Pharyngula
Jud McMillin has resigned from his position as a Republican representative in the Indiana legislature. I know this bothers you…
From: Pharyngula
I don't believe it. After all of the scandals, the forced resignation, the criminal convictions, the refusal of a presidential…
From: Thoughts of Crys
The increasing support for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement has caused great concern with the Israeli government and they…
From: Mano Singham
We know that vaccines save millions of lives, and that there is not a shred of evidence that they cause…
From: Thoughts of Crys
“If I don’t get what I wish for— If the changes aren’t profound— Then I’m voting for The Donald And…
From: The Digital Cuttlefish