[Content Warning: Cat Pictures] I got some photos from Commentariat(tm) member Celeste H, providing empirical proof that at least some…
From: Stderr
This is one picture from the Saturn-V that I forgot to post. It's worth it in its own right, in…
From: Stderr
Daniel Craig is handing over the James Bond baton to Lashana Lynch. In news that will surely come as a…
From: Mano Singham
This contains spoilers for Avengers: Whatever Whatever and Spider Man: Far From Shabby. So I found out while watching the…
From: Great American Satan
I went to this movie last night. I've never heard such vocal unanimity from the Morris people as we left…
From: Pharyngula
In the realm of games, it is widely acknowledged that different people enjoy different aspects of games, and for different…
From: A Trivial Knot
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From: Pharyngula
It's Fairy Tale Saturday and this week we have a very special book that comes to us from our very own…
From: Affinity
Lately, I've been listening to the 1865 podcast. [1865] I'm finding it interesting, illuminating, and well-produced. It's history as a…
From: Stderr
I've been having a new problem with my handles, which I finally figured out. This is pretty straightforward: my tools…
From: Stderr
NASA's done a good job producing a sort of "space disneyland" - probably for the usual reasons: it's necessary to…
From: Stderr
https://youtu.be/Uab5_6SYayA
From: The Atheist Experience
Incredible. DJ Grothe -- you remember Grothe, right? If not, ask Carrie Poppy, or Stephanie Zvan, or Jason Thibeault, or…
From: Pharyngula
I police my social media fairly heavily, since I really don't want to waste time on major bozos. This one…
From: Pharyngula
Coons biases are showing nakedly in this essay in which he says Democrats need to talk about their faith, using…
From: Pharyngula
https://youtu.be/BSjFnM1-QnA
From: The Atheist Experience
Not that it will cost his reputation in the skeptic community anything -- he is the master of falling upwards.…
From: Pharyngula
... And fire up the "Streisand Effect." A Canadian cartoonist was fired for a cartoon of Donald Trump. I love…
From: Stderr
https://youtu.be/Hptu_M4tSBI
From: The Atheist Experience
I haven't done one of these in a while -- it's a dispiriting time to be an atheist -- but…
From: Pharyngula
You knew it was coming, because it always does. A man rapes a child, and rather than focusing on the…
From: Pharyngula
According to Steven Pinker, at least. I guess he's never looked at Reddit or YouTube or any online community that…
From: Pharyngula
Finally. Pinker has a letter posted on another blog in which he strongly repudiates Jeffrey Epstein. I'm glad to see…
From: Pharyngula
You just knew that Jeffrey Epstein had to have had this conversation over and over again. “He hates every story…
From: Pharyngula
It is a sad commentary on the state of the justice system and the presidency in the US today that…
From: Mano Singham
Yet here I am, thinking it might be fun to watch a women's soccer match. I'm not even talking about…
From: Pharyngula
cn: anti-gay slurs and harassment My husband and I have been together since 2011. And it used to be that…
From: A Trivial Knot
The case of Jeffrey Epstein is notorious because the serious charges against him of sex trafficking of underage girls was…
From: Mano Singham
I guess there's a market for this: One of the biggest pornography companies in the world has launched a webseries…
From: Pharyngula
I have a love/hate relationship with The Atlantic. They get good writers and print some excellent long-form essays…and then they…
From: Pharyngula
What started as the Bolingbrook IT Department testing the “most powerful AI ever employed by a Chicagoland suburb” nearly ended…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I cannot really do justice to the incredible game that was just played. England won in the end after a…
From: Mano Singham
It's this puking, pooping toy. https://twitter.com/_BMW_750LI/status/1149846519333437440 Ugh. Revolting. What kind of twisted, foolish person would want one of those? Oh,…
From: Pharyngula
In the semi-final game against Australia, English batter Jason Roy let loose with a fiery tirade against the umpires when,…
From: Mano Singham
I'm supposed to appear on this show, titled "What's peeving PZ", on Sunday at 3. I'm not sure what to…
From: Pharyngula
Magician Franz Harary demonstrates a fun illusion. As usual, I have no idea how it was done. I am assuming…
From: Mano Singham
I wrote last month about studies that show that rich people do tend to behave like jerks, supporting a prejudice…
From: Mano Singham
Summer, and my sabbatical, are slipping away at a terrifying pace. [caption id="attachment_54986" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Lio[/caption] The thing is, the…
From: Pharyngula
In the second semi-final game played today, England beat Australia. It does not really count as an upset since there…
From: Mano Singham
In an upset win in a rain-interrupted game, New Zealand beat favorites India in a thrilling first semi-final game in…
From: Mano Singham
My attention was caught by this news item from Akela Lacey about how the state of South Carolina is seeking…
From: Mano Singham
A priest in Brazil declared that fat women don't get to go to heaven, so this woman made the best…
From: Pharyngula
This was the ruling from an appeals court that was handed down on Monday. Brevard County in Florida had passed…
From: Mano Singham
Coons biases are showing nakedly in this essay in which he says Democrats need to talk about their faith, using…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_39234" align="alignnone" width="483"] Abbie Farwell Brown. The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts. Illustrated by Fanny Cory. Boston, Houghton…
From: Affinity
Via reader and commenter Golgafrinchan Captain, I watched this amusing video narrated by 'Reverend Carl Sagan' about why biblical revelation…
From: Mano Singham
From Peter Cook and Dudley Moore in 1971. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
In the west, Hinduism and Buddhism are seen as peaceful, contemplative religions that preach peace, tolerance, and harmony, and advocate…
From: Mano Singham
We have two answers to the question: Why are there ten commandments when just one would have sufficed? Bizarro offers…
From: Mano Singham
We are a nation of dreamers: the grass is always greener, the air is cleaner, and some other neighborhood has…
From: Odgraphix
Yesterday, I showed you that clutch of spider eggs I'd accidentally removed from their silken egg sac. This morning I…
From: Pharyngula
Back when I was a cocky grad student, I wrote a paper that was, in some ways, critical of the…
From: Fierce Roller
This is one picture from the Saturn-V that I forgot to post. It's worth it in its own right, in…
From: Stderr
I'm still working at this macrophotography game, and have discovered that dragonflies are the best practice subjects. They're colorful and…
From: Pharyngula
Beautiful. We're currently cultivating 3 spider egg cases in the lab, with several more imminent, we think. This morning, I…
From: Pharyngula
...but they dug it back up! The backstory here is that I wrote a post a couple of years ago…
From: Fierce Roller
In an earlier post I showed what I thought was an impressive video only to be informed by commenters that…
From: Mano Singham
Today I've been prowling around, acting suspicious around my house, still trying to work out this macrophotography thing. I just…
From: Pharyngula
Mary is almost as into the spider thing as I am, but while I'm specializing in dirty dark cobwebby garages,…
From: Pharyngula
Finally, our colony is producing again! Lyanna has made an egg case, and she's tending to it in a maternal…
From: Pharyngula
Donald Trump has been on a racist Twitter tear over the last few days, attacking four progressive congresswomen of color,…
From: Mano Singham
I think his own words definitively answer that question. This is not the first time Trump has gone on a…
From: Pharyngula
What do you think of a man who threw flares at ICE vehicles and buildings? An armed man was fatally…
From: Pharyngula
There's this thing that's been in the news lately. It's actually quite an interesting bit of awful, and exactly the…
From: Pervert Justice
It could be worse. I've noticed that all the centrists shut up for a week after the fascists murder someone…
From: Pharyngula
A couple of white teenagers got a long, long profile in the Washington Post, which is part of the problem.…
From: Pharyngula
After blathering on for a few days that, by golly, he was going to get the citizenship question on the…
From: Mano Singham
The system in the USA has led to deep systemic flaws in all kinds of important institutions. One of the…
From: Pharyngula
I know, it's early in the morning, my fellow Americans, and you're still working on your coffee and cornflakes, but…
From: Pharyngula
It is a sad commentary on the state of the justice system and the presidency in the US today that…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_55062" align="alignright" width="150"] Demonstrators shout slogans and hold placards during a protest at the Amazon fulfillment center in Shakopee,…
From: Pharyngula
Donald Trump has been on a racist Twitter tear over the last few days, attacking four progressive congresswomen of color,…
From: Mano Singham
The most damning thing about antifa is that we have photographic evidence of them mixing up lots of milkshakes --…
From: Pharyngula
Thailand is unique among the nations of South East Asia in that it avoided being conquered by the European powers…
From: Mano Singham
As I had hoped, many more news outlets have started digging into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's financial background. In…
From: Mano Singham
What do you think of a man who threw flares at ICE vehicles and buildings? An armed man was fatally…
From: Pharyngula
This contains spoilers for Avengers: Whatever Whatever and Spider Man: Far From Shabby. So I found out while watching the…
From: Great American Satan
The idea of Medicare for All has been steadily increasing in popularity, so much so that pretty much all the…
From: Mano Singham
A group of Republican lawmakers went to an immigrant detention facility in Texas. Donald Trump had sent them there, supposedly…
From: Mano Singham
Another leaked memo from the departing UK ambassador to the US Kim Darroch says that Donald Trump withdrew from the…
From: Mano Singham