Unless you are living under a rock, you are likely to have been bombarded with stories about the final season…
From: Mano Singham
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is fighting an uphill battle, but I think she's fighting it well. She seems to be one of…
From: Oceanoxia
Well, do you remember this? [caption id="attachment_37295" align="alignnone" width="800"] ©voyager, all rights reserved[/caption] Which got turned into this: [caption id="attachment_37863"…
From: Affinity
I've been doing some web design, and it really sucks with a gouty foot. You've got to picture me hopping…
From: Stderr
The world famous cellist is noted for his genial personality and his untiring efforts to use music to promote understanding…
From: Mano Singham
The belltowers at Notre Dame are basically a medieval version of one of those barbecue charcoal-lighter cylinders. During the fire,…
From: Stderr
That's really all they've got in their big building clumsily laid out to look like a boat, anyway, just lots…
From: Pharyngula
So says faux journalist Jonathan Pie, in response to the attempts of defenders of the status quo to marginalize anyone…
From: Mano Singham
On a whim, I decided to watch the second film in the James Bond franchise From Russia With Love starring…
From: Mano Singham
At Frankfurt Airport: It was a bit expensive for a dust-catcher, but damn funny.
From: Stderr
Lets talk about easter and easter eggs and associated traditions. Most readers of this blog grew up with germanic traditions…
From: Affinity
Matthew d'Ancona has seen through the game and noticed that the excuse of "satire" is a hollow shell of a…
From: Pharyngula
I'm going to engage in some mild "whatabout"ism regarding our (my?) reaction to the fire in Paris. Dropping canisters of…
From: Stderr
I consider myself a materialist, by which I mean that I believe that I believe the physical universe, that of…
From: Fierce Roller
You can't really blame me, can you? He's so bland and forgettable, and has such goofy ideas. I was supposed…
From: Pharyngula
Don talks about some of the legislative action in Texas and what's going on behind the scenes. Lt. Gov. Dan…
From: The Atheist Experience
You can't own all the problems; sometimes the best you can do is give a small nudge and let nature…
From: Stderr
Steve Shives puts out excellent commentary, I wish I had the time and strength to watch all of his output.…
From: Affinity
I get a good chuckle over them. Like this claim that I am bitter about not being one of the…
From: Pharyngula
Tracie hosts special guest, Phil Ferguson, host of The Phil Ferguson Show, where he combines Skepticism, Atheism, Investment philosophies, Economics, Politics…
From: The Atheist Experience
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is fighting an uphill battle, but I think she's fighting it well. She seems to be one of…
From: Oceanoxia
Minnesota had its own local tragedy recently: a man walked up to a child at the Mall of America, and…
From: Pharyngula
I would have thought that child marriage was illegal in the US, but apparently not. Based on a survey, it…
From: Mano Singham
[CONTENT WARNING: Transphobia, TERFs] Alas, we hit another depressing milestone a few days ago: "A new Pentagon policy that effectively…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Speaking of the privileged professoriate, here's another example, David Yesner, an archaeologist at the University of Alaska. Yesner has been…
From: Pharyngula
That black hole image was something, wasn't it? For a few days, we all managed to forget the train wreck…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Katie Bouman was one of the primary team leaders on the project to image a black hole. She's gotten a…
From: Pharyngula
Steve Shives puts out excellent commentary, I wish I had the time and strength to watch all of his output.…
From: Affinity
Sex work has long been legal in countries like the Netherlands. But now a petition has been launched to change…
From: Mano Singham
Who was Natalie Reed? She was a writer for Skepchick in late 2011, one of the earliest writers to introduce…
From: A Trivial Knot
From the webmaster: while our staff gets ready to enjoy Passover/Easter weekend, I thought I would share this article from…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I'm in a happy place right now, because a lot of you made donations directly to me to pay off…
From: Pharyngula
I guess it is. You can ask me anything, but there's nothing in the rules that says I have to…
From: Pharyngula
The lack of posting today is due to the fact that I have not been feeling well. It is nothing…
From: Mano Singham
Gene Wolfe has died. This annoys me, though. Wolfe went on to write over 30 novels, with his best best-known…
From: Pharyngula
All those claims of a pedophile ring in the imaginary basement of a pizza place…psssht. False flag. Distraction. All that…
From: Pharyngula
Something I now feel comfortable venting about, now that my PhD is over a year behind me, is their timekeeping…
From: A Trivial Knot
There is a heartwarming story of people working on an oil rig 220 km from the coast of Thailand who…
From: Mano Singham
But I love history and craftsmanship and art. It is a great loss to humanity that Notre Dame is burning.…
From: Pharyngula
It's been a while and I've collected quite a few, so here, all at once, is a collection of mornings…
From: Affinity
Andy Ngo, always a reliable source of hypocrisy, started a Twitter thread to document all the wicked Leftists who expressed…
From: Pharyngula
There's this nifty instagram site, PreachersNSneakers, with a simple premise done well. He looks at photographs of evangelical preachers and…
From: Pharyngula
Wow. He gets around. Phillip Blair is the bozo who was preaching on a Sydney subway, but there's more! Here's…
From: Pharyngula
When I lived in Philadelphia, one of the miseries of taking the subway was the abusive street preachers who'd board…
From: Pharyngula
Signe Cohen argues that Asian countries have long had various forms of atheism and agnosticism that while not explicitly denying…
From: Mano Singham
The Nones have just passed the Catholics in numbers, at least according to one survey. And the Evangelical Protestants may…
From: Pharyngula
One of the strangest stories in the Bible, and there are so many truly strange ones in that book, is…
From: Mano Singham
Remember the Pennsylvania state legislator I wrote about who started a session with a prayer that had insertions of 'Jesus'…
From: Mano Singham
Via Frances Langum, I came across this extraordinary prayer given at the opening of a session of the Pennsylvania state…
From: Mano Singham
According to the results of the most recent General Social Survey data, the number of people who described themselves as…
From: Mano Singham
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is fighting an uphill battle, but I think she's fighting it well. She seems to be one of…
From: Oceanoxia
It is no secret that social platforms have played a major part in the spread of right-wing ideology. The social…
From: Pro-Science
Naomi Klein introduces a powerful seven-minute video daring us to imagine how the Green New Deal can take us to…
From: Mano Singham
In the course of a few hours, viewed sporadically on my phone and computer, I saw a vision of our…
From: Odgraphix
Gizmodo reports on the arrest of programmer superstar Ola Bini by the Ecuadorean government: Police in Ecuador have arrested Swedish…
From: Pro-Science
I'm eager to start surveying and collecting spiders, so I prematurely made a Berlese funnel, a kind of filter for…
From: Pharyngula
I have a friend who is a dedicated calorie counter. In order to control her weight, she carefully notes the…
From: Mano Singham
Cartoonist Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, is a climate change skeptic who repeats the well-worn anti-science tropes…
From: Mano Singham
It's kind of an irresistible target. A few things that I mention: The evolutionary psychology FAQ at UCSB (Warning: it's…
From: Pharyngula
A few days ago, scientists announced the very first real image of a black hole (as opposed to one of…
From: A Trivial Knot
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is fighting an uphill battle, but I think she's fighting it well. She seems to be one of…
From: Oceanoxia
It is no secret that social platforms have played a major part in the spread of right-wing ideology. The social…
From: Pro-Science
In Madison, Wisconsin two students confronted another in a bathroom after the regular school day had ended on April 10th.…
From: Pervert Justice
I am beyond saddened by this news story in yesterday's Toronto Star. A 9 year old girl in Calgary, a recent…
From: Affinity
I would have thought that child marriage was illegal in the US, but apparently not. Based on a survey, it…
From: Mano Singham
I have written repeatedly about the abuse of the so-called 'civil asset forfeiture' provisions in the law that many government…
From: Mano Singham
Steve Shives puts out excellent commentary, I wish I had the time and strength to watch all of his output.…
From: Affinity
Sex work has long been legal in countries like the Netherlands. But now a petition has been launched to change…
From: Mano Singham
Look, Donald Trump is an idiot. We all know that. It's not so much that he's ignorant, he is arrogantly…
From: Pervert Justice
If you want to see the sense of entitlement that rich people have, you could do no better than the…
From: Mano Singham
Apparently information about land ownership in England is shrouded in secrecy and not easy to ferret out. Now we know…
From: Mano Singham
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is fighting an uphill battle, but I think she's fighting it well. She seems to be one of…
From: Oceanoxia
Naomi Klein introduces a powerful seven-minute video daring us to imagine how the Green New Deal can take us to…
From: Mano Singham
In the course of a few hours, viewed sporadically on my phone and computer, I saw a vision of our…
From: Odgraphix
Gizmodo reports on the arrest of programmer superstar Ola Bini by the Ecuadorean government: Police in Ecuador have arrested Swedish…
From: Pro-Science
The world famous cellist is noted for his genial personality and his untiring efforts to use music to promote understanding…
From: Mano Singham
In Madison, Wisconsin two students confronted another in a bathroom after the regular school day had ended on April 10th.…
From: Pervert Justice
Bernie Sanders spoke at a town hall sponsored by Fox News. More than 2.5 million viewers watched the event, the…
From: Mano Singham
Andy Ngo, always a reliable source of hypocrisy, started a Twitter thread to document all the wicked Leftists who expressed…
From: Pharyngula
I have written repeatedly about the abuse of the so-called 'civil asset forfeiture' provisions in the law that many government…
From: Mano Singham