Remember when Harrison Ford was playing an action thriller man, who got annoyed with the president and was all like,…
From: Life's a Gas
The Probability Broach, chapter 2 Win is interviewing Jenny Noble, state director of the Colorado Propertarian Party, about her murdered…
From: Daylight Atheism
Dreamed I got a security job at an airport. Walking a patrol, I saw a guy with his head ground…
From: Life's a Gas
I just watched the four-part TV series Adolescence that has created quite a media splash. The show tells the story…
From: Mano Singham
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From: Mano Singham
Last November in novel-writing month, I had intended to write a Thriller™ in the Dan Brown-Tom Clancy-John Grisham mold, and…
From: Life's a Gas
Gather round, it's anecdote time. Unpacking is a critically acclaimed indie game from 2021 that asks the player to unpack…
From: A Trivial Knot
The story about Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa has thrown up new complications. A private healthcare clinic in New Mexico…
From: Mano Singham
I once had a weird relationship with the alternative weekly magazines in Seattle. I read them front to back every…
From: Life's a Gas
The Probability Broach, chapter 2 The second chapter of TPB begins with a vignette: ATLANTA (FNS) - Over 100 heavily…
From: Daylight Atheism
Every few weeks, I get a fresh comment on an old video I made a about a year ago about…
From: Pharyngula
Here's a provocative idea from Gregory Paul: the churches are dying. One might think that the religion in its vast…
From: Pharyngula
Martyn Iles lost his status as Ken Ham's successor at Answers in Genesis (there's a story there, I'm sure, but…
From: Pharyngula
Apparently I need to go back to bed and shut down all social media, because this is the dreck I'm…
From: Pharyngula
'Deciphering the Gospels’, by R. G. Price, argues the case for Jesus mythicism, which is the view that Jesus never…
From: Geeky Humanist
[caption id="attachment_62764" align="alignright" width="150"] Would you buy a cancer cure from this man?[/caption] It's been a while since I mentioned…
From: Pharyngula
Well, this is interesting. Answers in Genesis has had a bit of a shake-up. You may recall that Ken Ham…
From: Pharyngula
‘Deciphering the Gospels’, by R. G. Price, argues the case for Jesus mythicism, which is the view that Jesus never…
From: Geeky Humanist
Bryan Johnson -- you know, the Bryan Johnson who wants to achieve eternal youth by turning himself into a plasticine…
From: Pharyngula
Every week there are noteworthy people who pass away, but sometimes their deaths hit a little harder. This week we…
From: Pro-Science
You heard about all the businesses capitulating to the fresh fashy vibes of the new ameriKKKa? Tossing diversity initiatives, LGBTetc…
From: Life's a Gas
I just watched the four-part TV series Adolescence that has created quite a media splash. The show tells the story…
From: Mano Singham
I once had a weird relationship with the alternative weekly magazines in Seattle. I read them front to back every…
From: Life's a Gas
What Even is Gender? is an academic philosophy book written by B. R. George and R. A. Briggs, freely accessible…
From: A Trivial Knot
Texas Republican congressman Keith Self is chair of a a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee and during a hearing, he turned…
From: Mano Singham
It's a simple point. [caption id="attachment_75817" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Someone on TikTok pointed out there are more kids in Texas with…
From: Pharyngula
Be there!
From: Pharyngula
Good news from Montana: the legislature was flooded with anti-trans laws, but they've all been defeated. They failed because a…
From: Pharyngula
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California who also has aspirations to the presidency, has destroyed any chance he has of…
From: Pharyngula
A new study finds that the 'quality' of a man's sperm correlates with their longevity. Sperm may be the canaries…
From: Mano Singham
Not us. We have to welcome spring with something more … elaborate. Not visible: the three guys with shovels and…
From: Pharyngula
Things you don't like to come home to: a backhoe parked on the grass and an 8 foot deep trench…
From: Pharyngula
AI spills the beans. An alternative to humanity is being developed from mouse stock. You should feel guilty if you…
From: Pharyngula
This is how I start my morning? Make sure you've got a clear path to the toilet before you click…
From: Pharyngula
Remember Justin Eichorn? The Minnesota Republican who was caught in a sting trying pick up 16 year old girls? This…
From: Pharyngula
For those who care, I've switched my Mastodon server. I'm now @pzmyers@freethought.online. HJ Hornbeck set this up for us a…
From: Pharyngula
I can't remember where and when I wrote about it; I think it was here - but since I forget,…
From: Stderr
Here in lovely, thawing Minnesota, our Republican representatives tried to outlaw opposition to Trump's policies, on the grounds that anyone…
From: Pharyngula
You may not be interested, but I passed my physical exam. Blood pressure is perfect, cholesterol levels are so low…
From: Pharyngula
Today is the day for my annual physical exam, and I'm about to get my veins tapped and my body…
From: Pharyngula
You heard about all the businesses capitulating to the fresh fashy vibes of the new ameriKKKa? Tossing diversity initiatives, LGBTetc…
From: Life's a Gas
Should I call them suras? My emerging personal religion has disparate influences, which could be read as holy texts, and…
From: Life's a Gas
Shortly after we moved into our condo, my husband found a little plastic figurine of St. Joseph buried in our…
From: Life's a Gas
From: Pharyngula
We were always in favor of separation of church and state -- I still am -- and I never cared…
From: Pharyngula
I got the usual email from American Atheists, and Melina Cohen brought up an interesting contrast. First, on Monday, there…
From: Pharyngula
Ben Shapiro chose to go after Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde. Unfortunately, he chose to do so by making up facts…
From: Pharyngula
A legislator in Mississippi has filed a bill in the state legislature titled “Contraception Begins at Erection Act". As written…
From: Mano Singham
I'm bewildered. I'm an anti-theist, so it makes me uncomfortable when I see a priest acting charitably and kindly and…
From: Pharyngula
Kurt Gödel (1906-1978) was a powerful logician whose contributions to logic, mathematics, and philosophy were immense. He was deeply interested…
From: Mano Singham
The latest global rankings on university research by the journal Nature has been released and China has vaulted into the…
From: Mano Singham
Swallows is the same. This one looks like barn swallows but with no orange on bottom - just white beneath,…
From: Life's a Gas
Swallows is the same. I would have been very justified in only doing one life list entry for all of…
From: Life's a Gas
Male tarantulas, when they reach sexual maturity, are focused on wandering away to find sex, to the point where they…
From: Pharyngula
Blue is the lab mascot, a Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens, and after their last molt, they've acquired the dark blue and blue-green…
From: Pharyngula
Yet another species with intercontinental distribution, depending on how you define species, barn swallows are the easiest swallows to meet. …
From: Life's a Gas
I know fuck-all about diamond doves. Is that even what they're actually called, where they're from? I just remember seeing…
From: Life's a Gas
The story about Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa has thrown up new complications. A private healthcare clinic in New Mexico…
From: Mano Singham
I've seen this game of Telephone played out in my cell biology class, but to a greater degree. [caption id="attachment_75915"…
From: Pharyngula
Day one: Day two: And now, day three: I don't think it's gotten any more complex, but is it changing?
From: Pharyngula
You are walking along a public street in daylight when suddenly you are surrounded by people dressed in black with…
From: Mano Singham
In the US, owning one's own home has always been portrayed as the ultimate dream and people strive to do…
From: Mano Singham
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about human suffering, and how it isn't a cosmic necessity,…
From: Daylight Atheism
I just watched the four-part TV series Adolescence that has created quite a media splash. The show tells the story…
From: Mano Singham
This little meme was posted by Will Stancil. I'm wondering if I'm just too online, because I got the joke…
From: Pharyngula
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former director of global public policy at Meta’s precursor, Facebook, has written a best-seller Careless People that…
From: Mano Singham
Jasmine Mooney is a Canadian who got caught in the nightmare that is run by ICE (US Immigration and Customs…
From: Mano Singham
What do the following people have in common: Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Sam Bankman-Fried, George Santos, Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro,…
From: Mano Singham
One of my favorite albums ever is Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger. Musically, quite excellent. Some of the B sides are fairly B…
From: Life's a Gas
The US seems to be following the path of authoritarian countries around the world in steadily abrogating the rights of…
From: Mano Singham
Remember when Harrison Ford was playing an action thriller man, who got annoyed with the president and was all like,…
From: Life's a Gas
The latest global rankings on university research by the journal Nature has been released and China has vaulted into the…
From: Mano Singham
Only two months into Trump's reign, and three prominent Yale professors depart for a Canadian university. These professors started planning…
From: Pharyngula
Israel has started bombing Gaza again and there are horrifying reports that their snipers are deliberately targeting children. On August…
From: Mano Singham
You are walking along a public street in daylight when suddenly you are surrounded by people dressed in black with…
From: Mano Singham
Way, way back in time, when the atheist schism was running hot, Freethoughtblogs and Skepchick were accused of being like…
From: Pharyngula
Trump has ordered the release of a whole trove, over 80,000 pages, of formerly classified CIA and FBI documents purportedly…
From: Mano Singham
We now have excerpts from that Signal chat, where a reporter was accidentally included as they discussed bombing the Houthis…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_75969" align="alignright" width="150"] I think this clown's head might roll pretty good[/caption] Canada, Greenland, Mexico, and Panama are even…
From: Pharyngula
NASA's budget is getting slashed. NASA is terminating $420 million in contracts the agency says are redundant or “misaligned” with…
From: Pharyngula