I said I'd review William Brinkman's new book - Revenge of the Phantom Press - before it comes out and…
From: Life's a Gas
[caption id="attachment_5597" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Practical Bookmark, designed by me[/caption] Here's a really old design of mine, back in 2013. I…
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Alcohol is the most widely used legal drug. Its use has been sanctioned by long-standing use and efforts to ban…
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My game, Moon Garden Optimizer has finally released on Steam! If you follow my blog, you may be aware that…
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The Probability Broach, chapter 14 Win's investigation of the people trying to kill him has hit one dead end after…
From: Daylight Atheism
"Because CASS is founded on the belief that critical thinking is for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, gender—” Juanita…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state…
From: Mano Singham
i didn't stumble out of bed to the alarm at six fifty in the morning today. my husband goes to…
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I don't even know if this sidebar joke will work until it posts, like, will the punctuation all display as…
From: Life's a Gas
I said I'd review William Brinkman's new book - Revenge of the Phantom Press - before it comes out and…
From: Life's a Gas
"Because CASS is founded on the belief that critical thinking is for everyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation, gender—” Juanita…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
It's cold across much of the country. There's snow and ice on the ground. IT'S A CONSPIRACY! At least, some…
From: Pharyngula
Daniel Phelps, who tracks attendance at Ken Ham's cheesy roadside attractions in Kentucky, tells me that they're in decline. According…
From: Pharyngula
My whole life I have felt there is a fascinating line between Nietzsche and Hume. Wow, that is profound, Marcus:…
From: Stderr
IMPORTANT CHANGE: the article was not written by Marc Siegel, but by someone named Michael Guillén. I was fooled by…
From: Pharyngula
There is a huckster named Skyler Chan who is raising money from the tech bros in Silicon Valley to build…
From: Pharyngula
I remember this old battered paperback that was passed around my father's family -- I think it was my uncle…
From: Pharyngula
I used to think the BBC was a pretty good network, too. I'm still right about Robin, but I'm proven…
From: Pharyngula
Too on-the-nose? I don't think so. Lysenko was put in charge of Soviet agriculture after declaring that Mendelian genetics was…
From: Pharyngula
What the internet and the latest forms of AI have revealed is that many people harbor the ugliest of impulses.…
From: Mano Singham
I recently discovered I'm missing an important piece of gaming history on my bookshelves. Once upon a time, Palladium Books…
From: Life's a Gas
I am becoming increasingly concerned whenever I see the word 'influencer' associated with someone on the internet. It is a…
From: Mano Singham
I have a new column this week on OnlySky about the effect of abortion bans. They don't decrease abortion -…
From: Daylight Atheism
Heated Rivalry is an M/M hockey romance TV series based on the book of the same name. It's some sort…
From: A Trivial Knot
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the prospect of marriage going extinct, whether it can…
From: Daylight Atheism
I'm not in favor of assassinations; I'm especially not fond of sloppy wet work. Fortunately I'm not in that business,…
From: Stderr
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
I will periodically repost my comments policy for those who recently started visiting this site. As long time readers know,…
From: Mano Singham
A couple more letters emerge out of the files, these all involve John Brockman. Brockman was the king of scientific…
From: Pharyngula
I just had a flashback to my worst academic experience ever. I think it was a combination of my recent…
From: Pharyngula
The Algorithm threw this video at me and I had to watch it. Now you shall watch it too. It's…
From: Pharyngula
As a man who was born a Chad (I keep telling myself), I am immune to the "looksmaxxing" trend, but…
From: Pharyngula
The weather is still cold, but the frost is no longer so severe that seeding potatoes cannot be shipped. Thus,…
From: Affinity
I had fun today drawing this little map. As per convention, north is on top. [caption id="attachment_50744" align="aligncenter" width="1114"] ©…
From: Affinity
So, we have our not-so-small plot of land, we have the house and all the storage buildings, and now let's…
From: Affinity
Today is the 21st anniversary of the beginning of my blogging. I originally started doing so on this day in…
From: Mano Singham
It would almost be worth it to have golden spiders hanging from my nose, but I think this kind of…
From: Pharyngula
I had no idea what Cities Church was like. This is the church in St Paul were protesters disrupted a…
From: Pharyngula
It's about time. Jesus was running a camp for the homeless in Alabama -- which sounds exactly like what the…
From: Pharyngula
The University of Oklahoma has made an announcement about the Samantha Fulnecky affair. It's the wrong one. [caption id="attachment_78226" align="aligncenter"…
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…
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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
Roger, a male Latrodectus mactans, is still coexisting contentedly with his partner. I'm still disappointed that the female of the…
From: Pharyngula
Alcohol is the most widely used legal drug. Its use has been sanctioned by long-standing use and efforts to ban…
From: Mano Singham
I just had a flashback to my worst academic experience ever. I think it was a combination of my recent…
From: Pharyngula
Conservatives hate science. This is why they slashed budgets to science agencies, and put lunatic ideologues in charge of the…
From: Pharyngula
Sometimes it pays off. [caption id="attachment_78486" align="aligncenter" width="500"] xkcd[/caption] Although…evolution isn't driven by intent. Just be.
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My first visit to Lake O'Hara, seventeen years ago, was not well timed. On the afternoon of the first day,…
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[Note: Given the controversial nature of this topic and the subtlety of the arguments involved that might require multiple exchanges…
From: Mano Singham
The existence and availability of LLMs brings out the weirdest shit in some people. I personally believe it's worth it,…
From: Life's a Gas
But I reject it. [caption id="attachment_78452" align="aligncenter" width="441"] SMBC[/caption] It's a silly argument. All science is built on observation and…
From: Pharyngula
The New York Times had an article that has set off alarms in higher education circles in the US that,…
From: Mano Singham
Shaun is doing a fundraiser, a livestream, for the Women's Foundation of Minnesota. He's playing Elden Ring and bashing monsters…
From: Pharyngula
And I regret it. Bet you didn't know that Scandinavian-Americans are "over-empathetic" and that we're a hotbed of "left-wing radicalism,"…
From: Pharyngula
The strong nationwide reaction to the assault on communities and the murder of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by the…
From: Mano Singham
At a time when we are flooded with vile rhetoric from all over, especially on social media, it becomes difficult…
From: Mano Singham
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state…
From: Mano Singham
My state is impressing the world with its communal cooperation and altruism. It turns out we're just responding in a…
From: Pharyngula
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Thomas Chatterton Williams has written up another piece sucking up to the powers-that-be, blaming the "super-woke" for the fact that…
From: Pharyngula
at the walmart just now, wearing a jacket that said "44" on the back. sportball fan? no. diagonal bars were…
From: Life's a Gas
As others have pointed out, one of the key differences between the first Trump administration and the current iteration is…
From: Mano Singham
The strong nationwide reaction to the assault on communities and the murder of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by the…
From: Mano Singham
More Epstein files have been released, and I'm sorry, I can't bear to read any more about them. They confirm…
From: Pharyngula
Alcohol is the most widely used legal drug. Its use has been sanctioned by long-standing use and efforts to ban…
From: Mano Singham
Businesses are made to fuck you to pieces and feed the meat to their next victim, so yeah, wouldn't it…
From: Life's a Gas
At a time when we are flooded with vile rhetoric from all over, especially on social media, it becomes difficult…
From: Mano Singham
Conservatives hate science. This is why they slashed budgets to science agencies, and put lunatic ideologues in charge of the…
From: Pharyngula
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state…
From: Mano Singham
An ugly old white man (I can say it, I'm one of them) took a seat in the front row…
From: Pharyngula
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The invaluable news source Drop Site has obtained video that clearly shows Alex Pretti being murdered by a CBP agent…
From: Mano Singham