In episode 9 of Creativity for Skeptics, I’ll recap week three of The Artist’s Way and preview week four. Transcript…
From: Freethinking Ahead
In December, I posted about the demise of Creative Computing in December 1985. And in the item, I said I…
From: Intransitive
Stephen Colbert hopes to take advantage of the popularity of The Queen's Gambit by making his own miniseries based on…
From: Mano Singham
This is to help defray FTB's legal debts from Richard Carrier's defamation lawsuit. Details and rules are below: Note: NEW…
From: Stderr
This is to help defray FTB's legal debts from Richard Carrier's defamation lawsuit. Details and rules are below: Note: NEW…
From: Stderr
This is to help defray FTB's legal debts from Richard Carrier's defamation lawsuit. Details and rules are below: Note: NEW…
From: Stderr
One you've surely seen and some you have not. Here's the one that everyone has seen, but that surely deserves that…
From: Pervert Justice
The above photo of Bernie Sanders at the inauguration became a widely shared meme. Seth Meyers discussed it with Sanders…
From: Mano Singham
I have a few thoughts on recent happenings on the CW, like, CBS/Warner Television, not Content Warning, though usually my…
From: Great American Satan
Stephen Colbert discusses what is going on with the vaccination program as well as developments with the QAnon conspiracy and…
From: Mano Singham
I seem to be famous in the Muslim world for disagreeing with Keith Moore and Hamza Tzortzis on the validity…
From: Pharyngula
One of the things bringing me great joy right now is watching QAnon implode. None of the predictions came true!…
From: Pharyngula
What sucks is when you've lived more than 70 years, and not for one day have you known what accountability…
From: Pervert Justice
Earlier, I posted those emails from a creationist telling me that he had a "theory" that united human genomics and…
From: Pharyngula
The word philosophy literally means the love of wisdom. I understand why scientists may view philosophy with contempt because…
From: Jonathan's Musings
If you asked Jackson Pollock to do a painting representing government computer security, it would look just like every other…
From: Stderr
I get email, still, and I get tired of it all. This is what I got last night. Modern people…
From: Pharyngula
Back when I was CEO of NFR, in 1999, I broke labor laws by sending an email to all staff…
From: Stderr
In my previous episode on hypnosis, [stderr] I began by framing my views on the topic by dividing it into…
From: Stderr
Sunday morning at 6am Central I'm going to have a "This is your life, Adnan Oktar!" show, reviewing this guy's…
From: Pharyngula
In any week of the year, even during the last twelve months, you can find news story after news story…
From: Intransitive
According to homophobes, some families are better than others. In fact, they would even say that some people who consider…
From: Andreas Avester
With great mourning I must inform all of you that president Biden has disappeared about 157 million women. I am…
From: Affinity
I never got around to posting my pictures from Taipei's pride parade on October 28th. The estimated attendance was around…
From: Intransitive
Vaccines, the only light at the end of this grim tunnel called “COVID-19 pandemic.” Now that scientists have developed several…
From: Andreas Avester
Randomly meeting people from your past, people that you had some kind of big feelings about, there's a tendency to…
From: Great American Satan
For me, temptation is something to play with and pleasure is something I choose to pursue every now and then.…
From: Andreas Avester
In the last post I covered some of the more obvious problems with the world building. This one will focus…
From: Affinity
Christmas 2020 was all about self-love and selfcare for me. It was a much needed body appreciation day. With Covid19,…
From: YEMMYnisting
The ILGA (or International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association) have published their 2020 world report on rights and…
From: Intransitive
No Man's Sky again, at 7 (in about 15 minutes)!
From: Pharyngula
Like it says in the title, a new collection of amusing pics. Share and enjoy. .
From: Intransitive
Remember a few years ago when Pokemon was all the rage, everyone walking around streets with app, trying to "catch"…
From: Intransitive
A few news items: I sometimes play on Sitosis, a free public Minecraft server. It's totally vanilla, with a mature…
From: Pharyngula
My vacuum pump was delayed one more week but it should be due to arrive today afternoon. In the meantime,…
From: Affinity
A meeting between Palatine’s werecoyotes and weredogs to end recent coyote attacks against dogs ended in a brawl. The Palatine…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
The word philosophy literally means the love of wisdom. I understand why scientists may view philosophy with contempt because…
From: Jonathan's Musings
A month ago, several pilots and crew of Eva Airlines violated quarantine and potentially spread COVID-19, as some of them…
From: Intransitive
Not zombies themselves, which are still physiologically impossible, but the way characters deal with them in zombie movies. Horror movies…
From: Pharyngula
A porch thief gets caught in the act and tries to run away quickly but his car gets stuck in…
From: Mano Singham
Just yesterday, I was saying it brought me great joy to watch Q implode. Today, the joy is gone. I…
From: Pharyngula
I can tell we're going to be hearing much about young Mr Josh Hawley in the future. He's a fanatical…
From: Pharyngula
It's God. I mean, Ken Ham, who thinks he is god. Oh look. Biden has appointed a transgender woman to…
From: Pharyngula
The Monterey Skepticamp conference on January 2, 2021 where I gave a talk was enjoyable and informative, covering quite a…
From: Mano Singham
While there's a lot to be getting on with this week in the USA (and, heck, around the world, what…
From: Pervert Justice
Mikey Weinstein, of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, wrote an excellent open letter to the US Air Force Academy, pointing…
From: Stderr
[Much of this is my interpretation of the incredible work of Richard Carrier, Robert Price, and Mike Licona.] No, not another…
From: Jonathan's Musings
Grounded Ivory giggles and pink powder secrets power an endless charade. Let it all hang out between the pews. Just…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Last summer, I did some spider-hunting around Murdock, Minnesota. It's the typical slow, sleepy, small rural town (with spiders! But…
From: Pharyngula
For me, temptation is something to play with and pleasure is something I choose to pursue every now and then.…
From: Andreas Avester
Not a bright red cardinal on new-fallen snow, that's for sure.
From: Pharyngula
As a reminder, I’m open to requests to discuss any popular physics articles or videos, to append to my “I…
From: A Trivial Knot
Stephen Colbert discusses what is going on with the vaccination program as well as developments with the QAnon conspiracy and…
From: Mano Singham
500 women scientists feel the same way. ...we can’t help but notice that the recently announced nomination of presidential science…
From: Pharyngula
It must be convenient to be a spider at Halloween. To decorate, you just rummage through your closet and pull…
From: Pharyngula
This video that was sent to me by a friend shows what a powerful predator the peregrine falcon is. I…
From: Mano Singham
I don't know any economists. But, I assume that there are real economists out there that are trying to do…
From: Stderr
I'm going to put off the celebratory imbibery a bit longer today so that I can talk about development of…
From: Pharyngula
Nice. Paleontologists found a fossil Psittacosaurus with beautifully preserved scales -- they can even see signs of the pigments coloring…
From: Pharyngula
If you asked Jackson Pollock to do a painting representing government computer security, it would look just like every other…
From: Stderr
The Gulf states market themselves as glitzy tourist places filled with luxury high rise hotels and shopping malls and recreational…
From: Mano Singham
According to homophobes, some families are better than others. In fact, they would even say that some people who consider…
From: Andreas Avester
I am fascinated by cults and the people who join them. And the mother of all political cults is QAnon.…
From: Mano Singham
As I have said so many times before, the US is a one-party state. The party is a pro-war, pro-oligarchy…
From: Mano Singham
What sucks is when you've lived more than 70 years, and not for one day have you known what accountability…
From: Pervert Justice
Anaiise Diaz, former Social Justice and Legislative Assistant at the American Humanist Association, recently wrote an article for The Humanist called…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
While the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” are…
From: Death to Squirrels
People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life.…
From: Jonathan's Musings
The Dutch government has resigned en masse. What was the massive scandal that brought them all down? Prepare to be…
From: Mano Singham
Professional historian of lynching and mob violence Guy Lancaster has an article up at HistoryNewsNetwork.org that interprets the mob violence…
From: Pervert Justice
Trump campaigned in 2016 on being the only person who could 'drain the swamp' in Washington by getting rid of…
From: Mano Singham
I saw a tweet shortly after the US election results became known, about having the feeling of a background process…
From: Pro-Science
The Gulf states market themselves as glitzy tourist places filled with luxury high rise hotels and shopping malls and recreational…
From: Mano Singham
The above photo of Bernie Sanders at the inauguration became a widely shared meme. Seth Meyers discussed it with Sanders…
From: Mano Singham
There is this weird phenomenon in America of excessive admiration of Winston Churchill. We see this with the reaction to…
From: Mano Singham
If all the faculty announced that we're only going to work 10 hour days, and we don't work on weekends…
From: Pharyngula
His departure from Washington was a pretty pathetic affair. He was able to order up a 21-gun salute and a…
From: Mano Singham
Stephen Colbert discusses what is going on with the vaccination program as well as developments with the QAnon conspiracy and…
From: Mano Singham
Ted Cruz, pandering as always to the nativist base of Trumpers in the hope that they will flock to him…
From: Mano Singham
The US knows full well what I'm talking about, but I'm not referring to the US. This is about Canada,…
From: Intransitive