The Probability Broach, chapter 10 Our heroes fought off a gang of thugs that attacked them in the night, and…
From: Daylight Atheism
Still at it... - SPOOKTOBER DAY 12 - WESTERN OPTIONAL CHALLENGE: PARANOIA TITLE: THE ANGEL OF GOD Premise: Feuding rascals…
From: Life's a Gas
To take a break from the heavy-duty stuff about quantum mechanics, here is a clip of The Ventures playing the…
From: Mano Singham
https://youtu.be/P1UfJfvxHmQ It's been a bit since I posted anything here, three and a half years, in fact. I've already explained…
From: Fierce Roller
Imagine how odd it would look if all the heavenly bodies we see are more or less round-ish, and only…
From: Stderr
Back in August, I discussed a long New Yorker article that looked at the world of wealthy anti-aging activists, also…
From: Mano Singham
Had a dream I got away with murder. It wasn't fun or cool, just nerve-wracking and subsequently exhausting. I was…
From: Life's a Gas
Back in 2022, I made a dagger blade, when I was out at Dragonfly Forge in Oregon. I posted about…
From: Stderr
I am holding to my vow to only do the covers after I compose the ideas, in an effort to…
From: Life's a Gas
The Probability Broach, chapter 10 When he arrived in this alternate universe, Win Bear was shot and almost died. Lucky…
From: Daylight Atheism
Imagine how odd it would look if all the heavenly bodies we see are more or less round-ish, and only…
From: Stderr
It's said that the world is made of stories. But, if that were true, why is translating a personal experience…
From: A Trivial Knot
Back in 2022, I made a dagger blade, when I was out at Dragonfly Forge in Oregon. I posted about…
From: Stderr
Avi Loeb is playing games with his peculiar interpretation of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. He keeps suggesting that this interesting, carbon-rich,…
From: Pharyngula
He proudly claims that he saved a life. His account: A few minutes later, as the service was starting, Pastor…
From: Pharyngula
Dan Stern Cardinale offered an opportunity to creationists: come to his channel and present their affirmative evidence for their theory…
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
Remember when Megyn Kelly was deeply offended at the suggestion that Santa Claus wasn't white? It's an imaginary figure, yet…
From: Pharyngula
It won't be because Charlie Kirk zealots showed up at my door and wreaked their misplaced vengeance on me --…
From: Pharyngula
I'm so old, I remember when the Rapture was supposed to happen in 2011: This prophetic pratfall was the legacy…
From: Daylight Atheism
I suspect most of my readers are not manly, masculine "he-men," according to this declaration by Edward K. Strong. [caption…
From: Pharyngula
Professional sports in the US is dominated by male teams whose players get the big contracts and media focus and…
From: Mano Singham
They've founded a new organization, Beyond X and Y. As the copy on their web page says: We’re a trans-led…
From: Pharyngula
Damn, this review hurts for a couple of reasons, but it really shouldn't. When people say stupid, hateful, hypocritical things,…
From: Pharyngula
I must say that I have been surprised by the reactions to the killing of Charlie Kirk. I had of…
From: Mano Singham
Wait, no, that's not true -- the Republicans are gunning for everyone who is tolerant of other people's sexual orientation.…
From: Pharyngula
It's another anatomical atrocity from the bowels of the internet. Be amazed at the magnitude of the physical differences between…
From: Pharyngula
So much of the nonsense about the gender binary is projection, and imposition of cultural biases on top of biology.…
From: Pharyngula
I had a dream that started with people talking about a young lady who just had an abortion. There was…
From: Life's a Gas
Quakers are just one step removed from humanists, but with an even greater commitment to social justice. I like that,…
From: Pharyngula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FkIpMAmsqs My breathing is impaired, shallow. I can assume there's some amount of fluid in my lungs causing this, or…
From: Life's a Gas
Have you ever sat down to watch a movie and realized, within 5 minutes, that it was going to suck,…
From: Pharyngula
To take a break from the heavy-duty stuff about quantum mechanics, here is a clip of The Ventures playing the…
From: Mano Singham
I think this comic strip gets it right: we live in the Age of the Dumbass. After the golden age,…
From: Pharyngula
Well. Now we have another cause of autism. Thanks, RFK jr! There's two studies that show children who are circumcised…
From: Pharyngula
Imagine how odd it would look if all the heavenly bodies we see are more or less round-ish, and only…
From: Stderr
Back in 2022, I made a dagger blade, when I was out at Dragonfly Forge in Oregon. I posted about…
From: Stderr
It's time for rollerblades!
From: Pharyngula
My video game, Moon Garden Optimizer, just released a demo on Steam. If you've already tried previous versions, it's not…
From: A Trivial Knot
Jordan Peterson has been hospitalized with pneumonia and sepsis, which shouldn't surprise anyone. The psychologist, author, and bottomless fountain of…
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
I just learned that Jimmy Swaggart died earlier this month. He was a terrible human being, a televangelist, an occupation…
From: Pharyngula
As I emphasized in my posts during the past week, the Scopes trial did not resolve any of the major…
From: Mano Singham
(See Part 1 and Part 2. Also I am going to suspend the limit of three comments per post for…
From: Mano Singham
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the hope of genetic therapy to cure a particularly…
From: Daylight Atheism
(See Part 1 here. Also I am going to suspend the limit of three comments per post for this series…
From: Mano Singham
When I get back into the classroom in January, one thing I'm looking forward to is the ability to generate…
From: Pharyngula
My link to a video of a discussion between physicist Bernard Carr and Robert Lawrence Kuhn generated a request for…
From: Mano Singham
I'm used to seeing spectacularly pretty Australasian jumping spiders, and this one, the genus Simaetha, isn't exactly dazzling. [caption id="attachment_77699"…
From: Pharyngula
Back in August, I discussed a long New Yorker article that looked at the world of wealthy anti-aging activists, also…
From: Mano Singham
In previous government shutdowns, federal employees were furloughed and not paid during it but when the shutdown ended, they were…
From: Mano Singham
I like this discussion because it does not try to hide the fact that the interplay of the observer and…
From: Mano Singham
…one should spend some time with one's spiders. I know it is numerically the 10th month, but it should be…
From: Pharyngula
You'd think they'd learn. The Young Republicans had a signal chat where they thought everything was confidential among themselves, so…
From: Pharyngula
In previous government shutdowns, federal employees were furloughed and not paid during it but when the shutdown ended, they were…
From: Mano Singham
I hadn't listened to this report on his history yet. Yeesh. He is and always been deeply racist -- we're…
From: Pharyngula
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the trend of falling birth rates and what, if…
From: Daylight Atheism
The Guardian sent a reporter and camera crew to cover what is happening in Chicago as ICE sends its thugs…
From: Mano Singham
Professional sports in the US is dominated by male teams whose players get the big contracts and media focus and…
From: Mano Singham
Damn, this review hurts for a couple of reasons, but it really shouldn't. When people say stupid, hateful, hypocritical things,…
From: Pharyngula
That people should be able to request medical assistance in dying peacefully if they face a long and painful death…
From: Mano Singham
Europe's richest man is whining about a proposed wealth tax for France. But of course, he is not complaining that…
From: Mano Singham
I guess we aren't done with Charlie Kirk. The talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel, made a few entirely accurate remarks…
From: Pharyngula
Ryan Walters, the superintendent of education who was trying to force Christianity on students -- introducing PragerU trash into the…
From: Pharyngula
Greta Thunberg has been released from Israeli captivity, and she talks about her capture. What's surprising is just how childishly…
From: Pharyngula
I'm back! We went to Madison, Wisconsin for our granddaughter's 7th birthday, and also for brats (vegetarian style) and cheese…
From: Pharyngula
In what some are calling a dangerous escalation in Chicagoland, ICE agents clashed with weredog packs over the weekend. Sources…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Relations between China and the US have been tense ever since Trump started his mercurial behavior with tariffs, raising and…
From: Mano Singham
In previous government shutdowns, federal employees were furloughed and not paid during it but when the shutdown ended, they were…
From: Mano Singham
It's my granddaughter's birthday this weekend, so yesterday we spent 7 hours traveling all across Minnesota and Wisconsin, and boy…
From: Pharyngula
This year's Nobel peace prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado and Trump will be mad that…
From: Mano Singham
Elle Cordova does a rendition of a Halloween classic.
From: Pharyngula
Trump is a gangster. Now he's committing extortion against American universities. President Donald Trump’s war on academia continued this week…
From: Pharyngula