When you're a blogger, you wind up collecting ideas and sitting them on a shelf, "use this one if you…
From: Stderr
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…
From: Pharyngula
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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From: Mano Singham
Cartoonist Ted Rall has a theory about why people seem to vote against things that might benefit them. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
"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
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
[caption id="attachment_56185" align="alignright" width="134"] Matt Lubchansky[/caption] Oh, boy, this will set some asses on fire. Dr Subrena Smith argues that…
From: Pharyngula
The latest confession comes from a lackey of Alex Jones, a guy named Josh Owens. Now that Jones' empire of…
From: Pharyngula
I get lots of emails offering "guest articles" for blogs. By which they mean that they'll pay me to post…
From: Stderr
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
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
Another item I wrote on facebook, from last December: Billy Tipton was born Dorothy Lucille Tipton on December 29, 1914,…
From: Intransitive
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
There are a few good things going on right now -- they're all extra work, but it's the kind of…
From: Pharyngula
I'm afraid this one doesn't quite hit the mark for me. [caption id="attachment_57048" align="aligncenter" width="600"] PhD Comics[/caption] This close to…
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An interesting idea: what if using social media didn't leave you buck-naked and exposed? What would “internet realists” want from…
From: Pharyngula
Marc Lépine entered a classroom at l'École polytechnique on December 6, 1989. Despite Lépine being visibly armed, male students followed…
From: Intransitive
It's time for Bingo!
From: Pharyngula
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
Aren't you reassured that Rick Perry is writing up one-page rationalizations comparing Trump to Old Testament kings? That he, and…
From: Pharyngula
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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Coincidences abound. A couple of weeks I was talking about Jonathan Miller and the next day I learned that he…
From: Mano Singham
Mary and I went on a spider safari. In our house. It started out fine; we didn't find much in…
From: Pharyngula
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
I said I was going to do it, and I'm going to. I'll start shortly. One thing I should mention…
From: Pharyngula
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
I planned to start mating spiders today, and got my first disappointment: I waited too long, I think, because several…
From: Pharyngula
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
(Pearls Before Swine) {AD}
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
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
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
He made the following remarks at a fundraiser last evening. US President Donald Trump told a pro-Israel conference Saturday night…
From: Mano Singham
Amazon, like many greedy big corporations, often loudly announce that they are planning to open a new facility somewhere with…
From: Mano Singham
CIVICUS describes itself as a global alliance of civil society organisations and activists dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil…
From: Intransitive
Back on June 30th during the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, there was an incident at the Stonewall bar,…
From: Intransitive
War sucks. It's also bad when the warriors are discarded afterwards.
From: Pharyngula