When you're a blogger, you wind up collecting ideas and sitting them on a shelf, "use this one if you…
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Just in time for holiday shopping, Chytridoodles has a whole line of gear illustrated with a Chlamydomonas print: t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, cell…
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Although it is missing the giant cleaner emerging out of the alley to gulp down the corpse & virus. Our…
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I'm a big fan of cooperative computer games, but I'm not inclined to join guilds (aside from the Fuel Rats,…
From: Stderr
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Cartoonist Ted Rall has a theory about why people seem to vote against things that might benefit them. {AD}
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"Le Mans 1955" is a beautiful and horrifying short animated film by Quentin Baillieux, depicting the worst disaster in motor…
From: Intransitive
From Avalus, In Dörrenbach (in the palatinate) there was this house. I find it amusing. [caption id="attachment_41377" align="alignnone" width="900"] ©Avalus,…
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A saya nomi is a Japanese-style chisel for making scabbards. The basic shape is a curved chisel that can be…
From: Stderr
I am a certified old guy. Just for the fun of it, I sometimes show my children how in touch…
From: Mano Singham
With a vengeance, even. https://twitter.com/NightmareFuelNF/status/1204087581706608640 It should never have gone away. Oh, wait. This guy is just responding to this…
From: Pharyngula
Something curious that I've noticed is that, as various atheist organizations implode in scandal and chaos, the percentage of "nones"…
From: Pharyngula
This is one of those Trump real estate deals: The Japanese Government buys an island and lets the US Navy…
From: Stderr
I think I've been on this rollercoaster before: David Silverman Suspended Pending Investigation Into Touching Incident. Silverman was accused by…
From: Pharyngula
I really detest the whole business of trying to categorize whole generations as one thing or another. Population cohorts are…
From: Pharyngula
I imagine the police would find a way to use astrology to simplify investigations. "The victim was murdered on the…
From: Pharyngula
Essence of Thought has a new video out about next year's Anti-Theism International Convention. EOT's video is titled "A Decade…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I got an email from an old-school atheist activist. They asked a hard question. Or is it? The AA magazine…
From: Pharyngula
What happened at this conference in the name of entertainment is outrageous, demeaning and reeks of blind white privilege. Unfortunately,…
From: YEMMYnisting
There's been a lot of very smart essays on the reasons evolutionary psychology is pseudoscience. It's still happening because EP…
From: Great American Satan
This was announced by Miriam-Webster today. Merriam-Webster has named "they" its word of the year. The US dictionary also recently…
From: Mano Singham
India's corrupt and incompetent government and prime minister trying to enact new laws that do the polar opposite of what…
From: Intransitive
Merck (*) and the HIV initiative Prevention Access Campaign did a study on how well informed Millennials and GenZs are…
From: Intransitive
Response to Peter Wehner’s New York Times article, Christian Doomsayers Have Lost It https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/opinion/sunday/trump-christian-conservatives.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage This is a refreshing bit of…
From: Odgraphix
I've written in Pharyngula comments before about something called the Pseudocommando shooter type. These are the folks who get big…
From: Pervert Justice
“One-sided dichotomy” is a term I would like to coin to describe a common situation in public discourse. My first…
From: A Trivial Knot
Over on Pharyngula, PZ has a post up unequivocally supporting trans* persons equality with any other human where rights are…
From: Pervert Justice
Yeah, well, it's Quillette. Steve Jacobs Asked Thousands of Biologists When Life Begins. The Answer Wasn’t Popular. He doesn't understand…
From: Pharyngula
There's a lot in this video about hypocrisy in the secular community that I can relate to. It's a good…
From: Pharyngula
Alternatively, I wonder if some male writers have never met a woman. I misplaced my passport, and that is the…
From: Pharyngula
They all quickly agree that it's too damn cold to be outside. If only humans could come to a sensible…
From: Mano Singham
Look upon this document and moan. It took me a moment to interpret this thing. OK, Silverman is suing American…
From: Pharyngula
Plugs Freethoughtblogs has re-opened applications for new bloggers! Join us! Applications have technically been open all along, but we had…
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Content creators and viewers are both up in arms as much as they're in a panic, and for good reason. …
From: Intransitive
The upside: we got a sunbow today. The downside: jeez but it's cold.
From: Pharyngula
By Reporter X An impromptu mixed martial arts match between Bolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar and Vice-President Joe Biden ended in…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I've been accused in various places (not here) of hyperbole and overreaching in my comments about smoking. Or been threatened…
From: Intransitive
The solution to yesterday's puzzle was deduced by some in the comments. I was not able to solve the puzzle…
From: Mano Singham
I've already covered some of this material, as has EoT, so you might be wondering why I'm repeating myself months…
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I came across this nice little puzzle that I got from the Quora website from someone named Alejandro Jenkins who…
From: Mano Singham
India's corrupt and incompetent government and prime minister trying to enact new laws that do the polar opposite of what…
From: Intransitive
A Methodist church in California has set up an outdoor nativity scene for Christmas that has the potential to make…
From: Mano Singham
He made the following remarks at a fundraiser last evening. US President Donald Trump told a pro-Israel conference Saturday night…
From: Mano Singham
Response to Peter Wehner’s New York Times article, Christian Doomsayers Have Lost It https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/opinion/sunday/trump-christian-conservatives.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage This is a refreshing bit of…
From: Odgraphix
I see what you did there. A new center at Liberty University is opening to combat the idea that, among…
From: Pharyngula
The UK's Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has leveled charges against the Labour party that it has a serious problem of…
From: Mano Singham
Some of you may recall the big Chick-fil-A controversy that emerged some years ago. The owners of this fast-food franchise…
From: Mano Singham
Here's an amusing video about what happens when we stop caring about giving a fact-based education to kids. Laugh away.…
From: Pharyngula
When it comes to placing restrictions on abortion, Ohio has the dubious honor of proposing the wildest ideas to the…
From: Mano Singham
The multi-talented Miller died yesterday at the age of 85. His obituary describes the wide range of activities that he…
From: Mano Singham
It's the Youtube Walkout! The 10th through 13th we're supposed to avoid watching youtube videos. They've dropped some fucking egregious…
From: Great American Satan
Which is why we found her lurking under our dining room table, where it's cozy and warm. Do you know…
From: Pharyngula
At the beginning of the term, I was constantly repeating the mantra, "your data is your data" to the students…
From: Pharyngula
You know, you have to love the look of joy on their faces when they open a surprise box. I…
From: Pharyngula
Beautiful, isn't it? It's an arctic lake, with methane boiling up out of the thawing permafrost. It's so scenic and…
From: Pharyngula
Have you heard of Nicolas Bourbaki? I hadn't but David Gunderman writes that "he made fundamental contributions to important mathematical…
From: Mano Singham
I have not been advertising this aspect of my research, but I have been striving towards developing a Perfectly Spherical…
From: Pharyngula
George Church is a smart and interesting guy, and now he's been featured on 60 Minutes. It's a strange interview,…
From: Pharyngula
Although it is missing the giant cleaner emerging out of the alley to gulp down the corpse & virus. Our…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_57087" align="alignright" width="148"] AleksandarN[/caption] My latest aggravation with the company: I upgraded to their newest version of the OS,…
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Lee Fang of The Intercept writes that US health industry lobbyists are just waiting for a Conservative victory on Thursday…
From: Mano Singham
A Methodist church in California has set up an outdoor nativity scene for Christmas that has the potential to make…
From: Mano Singham
Much Like ICE, the people in the U.S. Border Patrol are scum. From the child jailers, to logistics-preoccupied administrators, fuck…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
Is it an outbreak of measles in the DR Congo, or a pandemic? DR Congo measles: Nearly 5,000 dead in…
From: Intransitive
As we all know, the Imperial Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941. It was only a few…
From: Intransitive
Amazon, like many greedy big corporations, often loudly announce that they are planning to open a new facility somewhere with…
From: Mano Singham
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From: Mano Singham
In 2000, there were 28.2 million cases of measles and 535,600 deaths. Thanks to massive efforts and vaccines, those numbers…
From: Mano Singham
What happened at this conference in the name of entertainment is outrageous, demeaning and reeks of blind white privilege. Unfortunately,…
From: YEMMYnisting
More and more I'm wanting the left to engage in rhetorical judo. There are so many times when watching clips…
From: Pervert Justice
It's the Youtube Walkout! The 10th through 13th we're supposed to avoid watching youtube videos. They've dropped some fucking egregious…
From: Great American Satan
Verogen is a company that sells DNA sequences to police states...I mean police agencies for the purpose of "catching criminals". …
From: Intransitive
Lee Fang of The Intercept writes that US health industry lobbyists are just waiting for a Conservative victory on Thursday…
From: Mano Singham
The Washington Post has obtained, under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, an internal report produced by an obscure government…
From: Mano Singham
This is one of those Trump real estate deals: The Japanese Government buys an island and lets the US Navy…
From: Stderr
A Methodist church in California has set up an outdoor nativity scene for Christmas that has the potential to make…
From: Mano Singham
The US invasion of Afghanistan was unwinnable from the start, and everyone in power in Washington knew it, not just…
From: Intransitive
Much Like ICE, the people in the U.S. Border Patrol are scum. From the child jailers, to logistics-preoccupied administrators, fuck…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
One of the features of the rise of Jeremy Corbyn in the UK and Bernie Sanders in the US is…
From: Mano Singham
By Reporter X An impromptu mixed martial arts match between Bolingbrook Mayor Roger Claar and Vice-President Joe Biden ended in…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler