In the movie Hard Boiled (辣手神探/Lashou Shentan/Hot-handed God of Cops), there's a big warehouse fight scene that just keeps going…
From: Life's a Gas
This article looks at why so many people enjoy seeing even horrific violence on screen, most extremely in what are…
From: Mano Singham
The Probability Broach, chapter 11 Ed and Win are going to see a client in Laporte's Old Town district. Win…
From: Daylight Atheism
I’ve been really busy this month, so I'm feeling some casual blogging. Question: why don’t origami books take a page…
From: A Trivial Knot
The insufferably pompous, arrogant, and sexist former president of Harvard University has been forced to withdraw from many of his…
From: Mano Singham
I was gonna save this video for Thanks4nothing, but I ran out of content before that, and the sidebar is…
From: Life's a Gas
The brain is the most complex part of the human body. While there is much that we have learned about…
From: Mano Singham
I have not written much about the Epstein files and the recently released trove of emails between Jeffrey Epstein and…
From: Mano Singham
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about an article in The New Yorker by humorist Patricia Marx who ventured…
From: Mano Singham
The Probability Broach, chapter 11 After several tedious days of convalescence punctuated by assassination attempts, Win Bear is back on…
From: Daylight Atheism
Daniel Phelps has been tracking attendance at Ken Ham's roadside attraction for many years, and as you might expect, it's…
From: Pharyngula
PragerU has been flooding my in-box with trash lately. No, I don't give a good fucking goddamn about Dennis Prager's…
From: Pharyngula
In the Bible, Jesus commands his followers to feed the hungry, shelter refugees, and comfort the afflicted. Whether they obey…
From: Daylight Atheism
Where are fossil fuels most useful? Here's a hint: it's one of the dumbest reasons you could possibly think of.…
From: Stderr
There's nothing new. It's a big space rock passing through empty space, not even coming close to us or interacting…
From: Pharyngula
I'm sure you've all been waiting to hear what Kim Kardashian has been up to. Apparently, she has landed a…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_77867" align="alignright" width="115"] Heinmot Tooyalaket[/caption] He was a smart guy and gave the only good argument against education I've…
From: Pharyngula
The latest xkcd makes the point that science changes over time, and that the early days of space flight preceded…
From: Pharyngula
Here's an update to a story that's been brewing for almost twenty years. In 2006 and then in 2010, I…
From: Daylight Atheism
When something is both outside of your education and, at least on some level, outside of your interest, it will…
From: Life's a Gas
Wait, what? There's a Riley Gaines Center? Meanwhile, the Leadership Institute, a nearly 50-year-old nonprofit that trains conservative activists, launched…
From: Pharyngula
Incels and misogynists seem to have missed out on a lot of genetics, so they freely make it up as…
From: Pharyngula
Rebecca Watson. The context: it's because Lawrence Krauss was getting clobbered by Watson over his abuses, and he wrote to…
From: Pharyngula
The insufferably pompous, arrogant, and sexist former president of Harvard University has been forced to withdraw from many of his…
From: Mano Singham
I have not written much about the Epstein files and the recently released trove of emails between Jeffrey Epstein and…
From: Mano Singham
It's as if America wasn't the paradise the Right tries to tell us. A Gallup poll shows that a lot…
From: Pharyngula
They have new policies for their university. Courses at Texas A&M University System schools that “advocate race or gender ideology…
From: Pharyngula
The Democrats have been releasing damning emails from the Epstein files, which is a good start. There's nothing too surprising…
From: Pharyngula
Various conservatives are celebrating the publication of a new issue of the Journal of Controversial Ideas, or Peter Singer's slush…
From: Pharyngula
Donald Trump has another reason to invade us: this state stands for trans rights. Today, the Minnesota Supreme Court issued…
From: Pharyngula
Quick, here's a link to Epstein's email. Are you in it? I checked, and I'm not. I'm simultaneously relieved and…
From: Pharyngula
Every year, just before Thanksgiving, the city of Morris puts on a Parade of Lights, always in the dark and…
From: Pharyngula
This is the very last harvest of the season. I just about managed to do it the very day before…
From: Affinity
Jill Lepore is a professor of history at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. In…
From: Mano Singham
I have a long list of places I'd like to visit, but am aware I'll probably never get the opportunity:…
From: Pharyngula
I was sorta disconnected yesterday. My router was down for most of the morning, but mainly, my wife had one…
From: Pharyngula
I'm later than usual with this link roundup. Not apologizing, just observing. Last month, on The Asexual Agenda, I published…
From: A Trivial Knot
am i losin' it or did the sidebar get shorter again? ... i'm really not sure. i'm a bit overworked…
From: Life's a Gas
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about an article in The New Yorker by humorist Patricia Marx who ventured…
From: Mano Singham
Lots of red and green shimmering in the sky tonight. This was a handheld shot, ISO 6400, f4, 1 sec…
From: Pharyngula
In these days of relentlessly depressing news, a good comedy comes as a welcome relief and this is such a…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_77735" align="alignright" width="130"] Dumbass[/caption] I don't think she should graduate from college until she passes a basic English literacy…
From: Pharyngula
A reader sent me a comment about how Catholics tell stories that they claim are in the Bible that aren't,…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_77649" align="alignright" width="150"] Chopping it all down[/caption] I had a nightmarish realization last night -- that American education was…
From: Pharyngula
We all know of and despise Ryan Walters, the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Oklahoma. He's a Christo-Fascist of the…
From: Pharyngula
As regular readers know, I play the card game bridge and recently I happened to look at some aspects of…
From: Mano Singham
Joseph Ladapo is the surgeon general for the state of Florida and is a vaccine skeptic who recently announced plans…
From: Mano Singham
I've been pretty blithe in my attempts to make people feel less doomy, and PZ did call me out on…
From: Life's a Gas
I was in the parking lot of home despot, when I saw this sign at a distance. Initially I thought…
From: Life's a Gas
To me the answer is 'no' but the title of this post was suggested by this essay by Philip Goff,…
From: Mano Singham
What if you and I see different colors? Like when I see red, it’s the same as when you see…
From: A Trivial Knot
This article looks at why so many people enjoy seeing even horrific violence on screen, most extremely in what are…
From: Mano Singham
People are discovering that AI, especially Grok, is not a trustworthy source of information. They're not impartial, objective reporters of…
From: Pharyngula
I was about to fix some dinner tonight, when I noticed this resting quietly in my frying pan. They may…
From: Pharyngula
Seriously, I'd love to visit the high Arctic. Utqiaġvik (formerly called Barrow) is the northernmost point of the United States,…
From: Pharyngula
The brain is the most complex part of the human body. While there is much that we have learned about…
From: Mano Singham
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about an article in The New Yorker by humorist Patricia Marx who ventured…
From: Mano Singham
You've probably already seen the video of the stupid Russian AIbot falling flat on its face in its debut, but…
From: Pharyngula
Remember those shiny white birds from the neighborhood of 320th ave and I-5 in Federal Way WA, that have vexed…
From: Life's a Gas
I learned recently that in elevators in the US built after the early nineteen nineties, the door-close buttons do not…
From: Mano Singham
Elon Musk declared that Wikipedia was "woke," and started his own online encyclopedia titled "Grokipedia". He was probably tempted to…
From: Pharyngula
Where are fossil fuels most useful? Here's a hint: it's one of the dumbest reasons you could possibly think of.…
From: Stderr
They have new policies for their university. Courses at Texas A&M University System schools that “advocate race or gender ideology…
From: Pharyngula
It is often interesting when, after a trial that garnered a lot of attention, the jurors talk about what went…
From: Mano Singham
I occasionally look in on our local racist cult -- but not very often, because dear god, they are boring.…
From: Pharyngula
I know that many of the readers of this blog also read PZ's Pharyngula so this post may be a…
From: Mano Singham
A professor in Indiana has been removed from her class after a student complained. A lecturer in the Indiana University…
From: Pharyngula
I had not known much about Zohran Mamdani's family who were not in the forefront of his successful campaign for…
From: Mano Singham
We are used to politicians and government officials having sign language interpreters alongside when they deliver important messages so that…
From: Mano Singham
Juan Cole makes an interesting point in light of Mamdani campaigning partly in Arabic. Because so many Arabic speakers have…
From: Pharyngula
I came cross this news item that said that Democrats have a glimmer of optimism about their chances to win…
From: Mano Singham
Jill Lepore is a professor of history at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. In…
From: Mano Singham
The insufferably pompous, arrogant, and sexist former president of Harvard University has been forced to withdraw from many of his…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_77989" align="alignright" width="150"] They even dress the part of criminal thugs[/caption] The police just busted a sex trafficking ring…
From: Pharyngula
Twenty years ago, Larry Summers gave his infamous speech in which he declared that the shortage of women in science…
From: Pharyngula
After fighting tooth and nail to prevent the so-called Epstein files from being released, last night Trump reversed course and…
From: Mano Singham
Where are fossil fuels most useful? Here's a hint: it's one of the dumbest reasons you could possibly think of.…
From: Stderr
I have not written much about the Epstein files and the recently released trove of emails between Jeffrey Epstein and…
From: Mano Singham
I remember, over 20 years ago, there were furious online debates where some of the worst people in the world…
From: Pharyngula
This should have been posted on Truth Social rather than Bluesky. [caption id="attachment_77961" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Ruben Bolling[/caption]
From: Pharyngula