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
Your mission, should you choose to accept it... Unbelievably, nobody seems to have isolated the audio from that nature documentary…
From: Life's a Gas
I made a playlist of what I deemed the best Dead Milkmen songs, following my exhaustive review of their discography,…
From: Life's a Gas
The Probability Broach, chapter 10 By threatening a captive prisoner, Win Bear was able to extract two useful pieces of…
From: Daylight Atheism
As usually happens, the hot takes by the losers following a bad election loss like what Trump and the Republicans…
From: Mano Singham
Georges Simenon was a prolific author who wrote a large number of novels featuring the French detective Jules Maigret. There…
From: Mano Singham
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From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_5496" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Radiant Star, designed by Madhura Gupta[/caption] This weekend, I'm at PCOC, the Pacific Coast OrigamiUSA Conference. The…
From: A Trivial Knot
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
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
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
I wish people would stop running to Richard Dawkins for quotes defending regressive policies in science. He has nothing worthy…
From: Pharyngula
The book Nobody’s Girl: Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts Giuffre has just been released.…
From: Mano Singham
RFK jr went on a rant about sperm. It's a national security threat, you know! Today, the average teenager in…
From: Pharyngula
I suspect most of my readers are not manly, masculine "he-men," according to this declaration by Edward K. Strong. [caption…
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
After a long morning cleaning up after so many spiders, I had to pick up a few things from the…
From: Pharyngula
I learned recently that in elevators in the US built after the early nineteen nineties, the door-close buttons do not…
From: Mano Singham
The penultimate harvest of this year - red beets. I dug them out while my back was still aching. Funnily…
From: Affinity
Sources within ICE and the Border Patrol are accusing Antifa of unleashing a powerful snowstorm against their officers in the…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I nearly went blind stepping into that store.
From: Pharyngula
My favorite alien organism in Predator Badlands was the brachiating carnivore with trilateral symmetry. That was neat. I also like…
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
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
In case you were worried about yesterday's spider who was tangled in their molt, worry no more. They are free!
From: Pharyngula
Sometimes it's hard to count. They'll walk away from their molt and eventually it'll be a less confusing tangle.
From: Pharyngula
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about how the fossil fuel era will end - not…
From: Daylight Atheism
(See Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, and Part 6. Also I am going to suspend…
From: Mano Singham
Below the fold. I had to do spider cage cleanup today, like a good little Igor. Last week, they'd all…
From: Pharyngula
Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a Sloar that day, I…
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
As usually happens, the hot takes by the losers following a bad election loss like what Trump and the Republicans…
From: Mano Singham
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
In the latest example of insanity, congress wants to penalize scientists who dare to work with Chinese scientists. Scientists and…
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
It is often interesting when, after a trial that garnered a lot of attention, the jurors talk about what went…
From: Mano Singham
I don't. When Hitler blew his brains out in the bunker, he splattered the upholstery with blood. An American soldier…
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