They say that you should never judge a book by its cover but I admit there are some film titles…
From: Mano Singham
The US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has warned that excessive use of social media by young people carries serious health…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_4572" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Turtle, designer unknown[/caption] You know, I posted a sketch of this same model, but I don't…
From: A Trivial Knot
Is humor a sign of intelligence? Hahahahah, that was funny.
From: Stderr
I’ve been watching a lot of TV lately – which isn’t really like me – but I seem to be…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
What I realized is that I was making those chisels for a beginner, who was going to be working at…
From: Stderr
I was looking forward to a mellow, relaxed Fall term, when the office of human resources sent me this memo:…
From: Pharyngula
Casual Geographic, as the name implies, takes a sort of everyman approach to teaching us about the world. This dive…
From: Oceanoxia
Sometimes, I just have too many nearly-completed projects and experiments. These are experimental blades I made by taking a chunk…
From: Stderr
I've never watched Downton Abbey. I did see Gosford Park, which is a sort of predecessor, but for all I…
From: Oceanoxia
Wonkette has a new article up about a trans person who was banned from giving a lecture on the history…
From: Pervert Justice
If you're curious about who would sign up for a Neuralink implant, as I am, you will discover that the…
From: Pharyngula
Is humor a sign of intelligence? Hahahahah, that was funny.
From: Stderr
And it's not anti-religious. Useful to know.
From: Pharyngula
I bet you never thought you'd see me writing that, did you? Ham has always insisted on a rigidly applied…
From: Pharyngula
This book looks so bad, I want to read it: Evolution is Wrong, by Erich von Däniken. I saw some…
From: Pharyngula
A chiropractor who also has a master's degree in immunology is in trouble because she posted an op-ed that favored…
From: Pharyngula
Kandiss Taylor ran for governor of Georgia on the slogan, Jesus, Guns, and Babies, which is the perfect Republican mantra.…
From: Pharyngula
She's a doctor, she must know all the inner secrets! Except…she's not a real doctor. She's a chiropractor. I don't…
From: Pharyngula
Has anybody read The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton? It's about a man who gets a brain implant to correct…
From: Pharyngula
Back when I was in college, California passed Proposition 8, which notoriously banned same-sex marriage, after it had been briefly…
From: A Trivial Knot
Wonkette has a new article up about a trans person who was banned from giving a lecture on the history…
From: Pervert Justice
A jury found that serial sex abuser Donald Trump (SSAT) guilty of sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll decades ago and…
From: Mano Singham
The president of that nation has signed into law tough new measures aimed against the LGBTQ community. Uganda's President Yoweri…
From: Mano Singham
He's fallen far now, and seems to think that thrashing about in the muck will raise him up, rather than…
From: Pharyngula
Lawrence Krauss, of all people, defended Geoff Marcy on the pages of Quillette last week. Well, that's a sentence that…
From: Pharyngula
A couple of days ago, I ran across a pro-life (as in, anti-abortion) meme on Facebook: For those of you…
From: Geeky Humanist
cn: This review makes no attempt to avoid spoilers Bros is a 2022 gay romcom described as the first movie…
From: A Trivial Knot
Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute of Sexology) in 1919, in Berlin, Germany. Its purpose was to…
From: Intransitive
The idea for this post started with my daughter coming home from the neighbor’s house and telling us that the…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I took this little survey in the Washington Post that takes into account your income, number of dependents, and region…
From: Pharyngula
They say that you should never judge a book by its cover but I admit there are some film titles…
From: Mano Singham
We finished putting up the greenhouse and started to fill it: [caption id="attachment_49626" align="aligncenter" width="450"] ©Giliell, all rights reserved[/caption] [caption…
From: Affinity
My daughter is the best thing that’s ever happened to me. When she entered the world seven years ago she…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
A MacOS port of No Man's Sky dropped this past week. Let's try it out! This will be a short…
From: Pharyngula
This is the second three-piece set from the second overabladeance that I have finished. It is what you might call…
From: Affinity
Now, I suppose the question is "what is a typical number of questions it would take a human to get…
From: Stderr
We're in summer research training mode. Mary & I took one of our students to see Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse…
From: Pharyngula
They forgot the part where, when the experiment works, it unleashes an unspeakable horror that will destroy our way of…
From: Pharyngula
In the second overabladeance were three tree-knives sets, two of which are finished now. The first one is from jatoba and…
From: Affinity
Lawrence Krauss, of all people, defended Geoff Marcy on the pages of Quillette last week. Well, that's a sentence that…
From: Pharyngula
After their attempt to stuff the ten commandments into classrooms failed, the Texas legislature rebounds and succeeds in stuffing chaplains…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_70206" align="alignright" width="150"] Look at that stupid gomer.[/caption] Texas tried to pass a blatantly unconstitutional ten commandments law. Texas…
From: Pharyngula
You knew this would set ol' Bill's non-existent hair on fire: the Los Angeles Dodgers invited a drag group, the…
From: Pharyngula
On 2 June, we get a new docuseries on the Duggars, Bill Gothard, and the IBLP cult. It's going to…
From: Pharyngula
I have been aware of the Satanic Temple as largely a group that seeks to dethrone religion's dominance in US…
From: Mano Singham
See that guy draped with ammo for his gun? That's Bryan Slaton, a Republican slimeball from Texas, who committed an…
From: Pharyngula
I work for an arts program in a mental health organization, and since I sometimes work with kids, I am…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Japan is instituting some new guidelines for recognizing religious abuse. It would be nice to see something like this in…
From: Pharyngula
Let’s pretend for a minute that I wasn’t a skeptical person – that I didn’t ask a million questions. Maybe…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
You know this podish-sortacast that Freethoughtblogs runs? At the end of the last one, we were talking about new topics,…
From: Pharyngula
This video does what it says on the box. Casual Geographic is here it entertain and inform, and in my…
From: Oceanoxia
Apple unveiled a shiny new gadget today: Apple Vision Pro. This looks really good! I want one. But as the…
From: Pharyngula
AI has been much in the news recently. The initial splash was with ChatGPT and its potential to enable students…
From: Mano Singham
Look at that thing. It's beautiful. That's Ingenuity, the drone that was sent to Mars on the Perseverance mission. It…
From: Pharyngula
A Texas A&M professor flunked all of his students because ChatGPT told him to. Dr. Jared Mumm, a campus rodeo…
From: Pharyngula
Tomorrow is a day of action for those working to stop Cop City, in Atlanta, Georgia. For any who need…
From: Oceanoxia
Last night, a bat got into my office and was flying around in circles. It got tired eventually and landed,…
From: Pharyngula
Many years ago, I suggested to my parents that they might want to have plans in case of future wildfires.…
From: Oceanoxia
Now, I suppose the question is "what is a typical number of questions it would take a human to get…
From: Stderr
Wonkette has a new article up about a trans person who was banned from giving a lecture on the history…
From: Pervert Justice
Tomorrow is a day of action for those working to stop Cop City, in Atlanta, Georgia. For any who need…
From: Oceanoxia
A republican judge appointed by Cheetolini (the same one that first put a stay on the Tennessee "law" which criminalize…
From: Intransitive
The US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has warned that excessive use of social media by young people carries serious health…
From: Mano Singham
I do not like the Democratic Party. As an institution, they are corrupt and disingenuous servitors of the upper class,…
From: Oceanoxia
I recently read the memoir Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass (c. 1817-1895),…
From: Mano Singham
Another youtube channel I watch regularly is Not Just Bikes by Jason Slaughter, a Canadian from Fake London (Ontario) who…
From: Intransitive
As the title says, May 31st is World No Tobacco Day, a day to advocate the end of tobacco usage. …
From: Intransitive
On Friday, US district judge Amit Mehta handed down two more sentences to Oath Keepers for their role in the…
From: Mano Singham
The internet is a mixed bag. While it has been an exceptional vehicle for increased communication and information access, it…
From: Mano Singham
Wonkette has a new article up about a trans person who was banned from giving a lecture on the history…
From: Pervert Justice
AI has been much in the news recently. The initial splash was with ChatGPT and its potential to enable students…
From: Mano Singham
Tomorrow is a day of action for those working to stop Cop City, in Atlanta, Georgia. For any who need…
From: Oceanoxia
Ryan Busse, a former vice president of sales for a major gun manufacturer, explains how the gun industry went off…
From: Mano Singham
A month ago, I wrote about my astonishment that as many as seven horses that had had to be euthanized…
From: Mano Singham
Many years ago, I suggested to my parents that they might want to have plans in case of future wildfires.…
From: Oceanoxia
A jury found that serial sex abuser Donald Trump (SSAT) guilty of sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll decades ago and…
From: Mano Singham
The deal to raise the debt ceiling has passed both houses of congress with bipartisan support and will be signed…
From: Mano Singham
The NY Post claims -- consider the source, and be skeptical -- that Tom Morello is being canceled by his…
From: Pharyngula
How about some optimistic news? These right-wing idiots have become caricatures of themselves, fulminating over the most absurd and trivial…
From: Pharyngula