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From: Oceanoxia
In a recent post, I tried to explain what NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) were. This is another of crazes that arise…
From: Mano Singham
As you may recall, I did a short post this past November about bigotry, which included a video about the…
From: Oceanoxia
I have to admit that hearing Trump supporters say the most clueless things seems to never get old. I am…
From: Mano Singham
Comedian Ricky Gervais seems to have gone off the rails in a big way. After his breakthrough series The Office…
From: Mano Singham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHlum0YlCMw Before getting to the main point, I just wanted to vent for a moment. When I was looking through…
From: Oceanoxia
Creating things for the future, or to give people pleasure, is an optimistic act. I finally got that big hunk…
From: Stderr
In a 2011 episode of Colbert's former show The Colbert Report, they sang acapella the Bill Withers song. The lyrics…
From: Mano Singham
I gotta post something to bump my last post, since it has a song in my head that I'd rather…
From: Great American Satan
I just love how this simple, factual message is stitched onto such bright yellow fabric. It has the feel of…
From: Death to Squirrels
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From: Oceanoxia
Congratulations to OnlySky for getting out from under the pious thumbs of Patheos, and finally joining the rest of us…
From: Pharyngula
This ended up with a lot more technical stuff than I would have liked, so I have decided to divide…
From: Jonathan's Musings
Of course he's peddling more conspiracy theories. These new COVID variants that require booster shots are apparently the product of…
From: Pharyngula
I was suspicious at the first paragraph -- who is out hugging strangers nowadays? -- but the whole second paragraph…
From: Pharyngula
There has been many megabytes of pixels spilled, writing about the US exit from Afghanistan. The tragedy, if there is…
From: Stderr
One of the most influential books in my life has been Robert Paul Wolff's In Defense of Anarchism [stderr] [wc].…
From: Stderr
Good work, design team! After 52 years of fruitful ministry, the Institute for Creation Research is renewing its commitment to…
From: Pharyngula
Hovind responded to my challenge, which was to leave me out of his rigged debates and just go read a…
From: Pharyngula
‘Deciphering the Gospels’, by R. G. Price, argues the case for Jesus mythicism, which is the view that Jesus never…
From: Geeky Humanist
As you may recall, I did a short post this past November about bigotry, which included a video about the…
From: Oceanoxia
Comedian Ricky Gervais seems to have gone off the rails in a big way. After his breakthrough series The Office…
From: Mano Singham
When he went off to college, Joseph Whedon "traded his basic name for a more interesting one" and started calling…
From: Pharyngula
Remember the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, that field station where the boys ran wild and made life miserable for women…
From: Pharyngula
Branko Marcetic writes that while the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell did not blow the lid off the whole sordid Epstein…
From: Mano Singham
Normally I pay zero attention to any awards shows. If an artist or their work was good, they usually get…
From: Intransitive
When you're not grounded by evidence, speculation can take you to some very wild places.The Frontline COVID Critical Care Alliance,…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
One of the reasons why I write science fiction, is that it's a way for me to think about what…
From: Oceanoxia
One of the consequences of having a great deal of math and physics education, is that whenever I learn about…
From: A Trivial Knot
As part of the legal proceeding involving Virginia Giuffre's charge that Prince Andrew was one of Jeffrey Epstein's friends that…
From: Mano Singham
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From: Oceanoxia
On my to-do list for today is: Organize all the supplies for the fly lab. Record a video summary of…
From: Pharyngula
We've lost an epic heldentenor -- Marvin Lee Aday, better known as Meat Loaf, has died. He was such a…
From: Pharyngula
Kent Hovind featured me on his wack-an-athest segment last night on YouTube. It was the same ol'. As usual, he…
From: Pharyngula
This survey doesn't surprise me in the least. Earlier this fall, a McMaster University research team published the findings of…
From: Pharyngula
It wasn't much of a surprise that I emerged from the lab and the Earth was still here. Maybe a…
From: Pharyngula
I wanted to buy some food-safe wood glue because, with the overabundance of jatoba, I want to try to make…
From: Affinity
Sweet dreams. https://twitter.com/NewTRNewsAgency/status/1483410278582784002 I didn't have any such dreams -- I could barely sleep last night. Today classes resume, and…
From: Pharyngula
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the…
From: Stderr
The final part of kestrel's viral art project. Enjoy. Hepatitis B Virus can actually be prevented with a vaccine: [caption…
From: Affinity
The sexual abuse of minors is an extremely ugly thing that rightly arouses great anger among people. This is likely…
From: Mano Singham
Oh boy, Answers in Genesis has published their assessment of the James Webb Space Telescope. They've already decided that it'll…
From: Pharyngula
It's been one revolution around the sun since Trump and part of the Republican Party enacted the coup attempt they'd…
From: Oceanoxia
I keep expecting no more of these stories. Maybe the increasing number of them is a good sign for the…
From: Intransitive
We atheists really can't take credit for it -- years of shaking our fists at the churches and patiently explaining…
From: Pharyngula
The indefatigable South African fighter for human rights died today at the age of 90. His achievements are well known…
From: Mano Singham
I cannot express my feelings about Christmas better than this cartoon. (Calamities of Nature) {AD}
From: Mano Singham
CBSN looks at the growing split within the evangelical movement between those who take extreme ideological stances and those who…
From: Mano Singham
Some people who do not want to get the vaccine but are required to do so because of their work…
From: Mano Singham
Content Warning: Cannibalism, Christmas When I was a kid I wondered how an infant full of holes survived, and why…
From: Stderr
Hooray for me! I got step #4 of my to-do list, and also step #3. Tomorrow I'll go back and…
From: Pharyngula
I'm not good at parties. Get a whole bunch of people chattering away at once, and I'm overwhelmed and retreat…
From: Pharyngula
Unless you have some kind of medical condition that makes the risk of vaccination greater than the risk of getting…
From: Mano Singham
(Previous posts in this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part…
From: Mano Singham
I learned about this because it was mentioned on the Unintended Consequences podcast. This thing makes me feel duped, dirty,…
From: Stderr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHlum0YlCMw Before getting to the main point, I just wanted to vent for a moment. When I was looking through…
From: Oceanoxia
After being kicked out of Australia for not meeting that country's requirements for entry, tennis player Novak Djokovic now faces…
From: Mano Singham
There is a giant space rock hurtling towards Earth! It is predicted to miss, and usually I'd trust the math…
From: Pharyngula
(Previous posts in this series: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part…
From: Mano Singham
I'm putting together a larger post on this, and I wanted to take a little time with it, so here's…
From: Oceanoxia
It is not racist, It is not ableist, yet I still think that it should not be used as an…
From: Affinity
Well, this is awkward. Once again personal biases have throttled me for years. Razib Khan was a colleague on ScienceBlogs.…
From: Pharyngula
As you may recall, I did a short post this past November about bigotry, which included a video about the…
From: Oceanoxia
Good news, everyone! Jordan Peterson has resigned from the University of Toronto. I recently resigned from my position as full…
From: Pharyngula
Apparently the agriculture post is going to take me another day - sorry about that! For any readers outside the…
From: Oceanoxia
Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, a federal holiday. As longtime readers may recall, it…
From: Death to Squirrels
Today, the Republicans who oppose voting rights for black Americans are all piously praising and quoting Martin Luther King Jr.…
From: Pharyngula
Happy Martin Luther King Day! Or, more accurately, Racism-Is-Over-Because-We-Named-It-After-A-Black-Man Day! Here in the Great White North, our big state newspaper…
From: Pharyngula
The sexual abuse of minors is an extremely ugly thing that rightly arouses great anger among people. This is likely…
From: Mano Singham
The healthcare "system" of the United States is so deeply, unforgivably fucked up that it's hard to put into words.…
From: Oceanoxia
This is the first time I learned about the Burn Pits problem. During the live recorded meeting, which ran close…
From: Pharyngula
How's the defunding going? It appears that the police unions have figured out that all they have to do, when…
From: Stderr
As you may recall, I did a short post this past November about bigotry, which included a video about the…
From: Oceanoxia
For a long time, it has been clear that Donald Trump and his family and associates were going to try…
From: Mano Singham
Today I learned that Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx corresponded…and that Lincoln was sympathetic to many of Marx's ideas (that…
From: Pharyngula
Here's a chilling statistic. But there are important questions that are attracting little attention: Why does America not have enough…
From: Pharyngula
The right of a woman to an abortion did not depend on the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade.…
From: Stderr
I am endlessly frustrated by the fact that there are so many things that we could be doing about climate change, and…
From: Oceanoxia
I have to admit that hearing Trump supporters say the most clueless things seems to never get old. I am…
From: Mano Singham
I'm a little envious that, in the UK, you have an opposition that's willing to stand up and tell Boris…
From: Pharyngula