Darren Naish is zoologist famous, and I follow his Tetrapod Zoology blog from time to time. There he's talked about…
From: Life's a Gas
Hey remember J-horror? Japanese horror movies? Who cares at this point, right? There was a long-haired lady ghost, maybe a…
From: Life's a Gas
There are things I wouldn't know if it wasn't for my husband. I was broadly aware of Franz Kafka and…
From: Life's a Gas
The Probability Broach, chapter 6 In the previous chapter of TPB, Win Bear stumbled into a parallel universe, discovered he…
From: Daylight Atheism
We've all heard the names of various renaissance artists before, right? Not being Italian, it's easy to miss that some…
From: Life's a Gas
In real life, it seems like organized crime and the FBI were nearly as bad as each other, by turns. …
From: Life's a Gas
Personally, I feel that brands should hire me - to destroy their brands. Why? It's great branding! I know, I…
From: Stderr
I found this interesting short clip of the versatile physician, writer, director, documentarian, comedian, and public intellectual Jonathan Miller, who…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_2144" align="alignright" width="350"] Revenge of the Phantom Press[/caption] I'm still on FtB, but this month I'm going to be…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Had a dream that nuclear czar was a job title that existed for each nuclear weapon, of which there were…
From: Life's a Gas
[caption id="attachment_66324" align="alignright" width="146"] Portrait of a pseudoscientist[/caption] One of the landmark legal decisions in the history of American science…
From: Pharyngula
This is absurd. Here's a video where a bunch of ICR wackaloons get interviewed. Next you're going to tell me…
From: Pharyngula
My husband and I were discussing some issue he has relating to other people intellectually and he arrived at an…
From: Life's a Gas
I was just served Pascal's Wager in my email. Anyone who deploys that ill-formed nonsense is a fool in my…
From: Pharyngula
Had some people doubting my assertion that the gnu atheists significantly contributed to the rise of fascism. My life is…
From: Life's a Gas
I wanna kill Jesus. You know, I'd love to be a nicer person to all the good people of the…
From: Life's a Gas
A thought follows from my recent bothsiderism post. There have been a lot of situations like this in recent years,…
From: Life's a Gas
‘Deciphering the Gospels’, by R. G. Price, argues the case for Jesus mythicism, which is the view that Jesus never…
From: Geeky Humanist
The gnu-flavored atheist movement was founded in part by people who favored military adventurism against muslim-majority countries, chiefly Christopher Hitchens. …
From: Life's a Gas
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the trend toward a more secular world - which,…
From: Daylight Atheism
I have been watching, with some horror, the spiraling descent of facebook and instagram, etc. The whole situation reminds me…
From: Stderr
I've toyed with the idea that one of the major values of social justice is basically empiricism. Social justice contains…
From: A Trivial Knot
I walked to the Morris Pride celebration at Eastside Park this afternoon, wearing my Biology is Bigger than Binaries t-shirt.…
From: Pharyngula
Coming out isn’t what it used to be. Literally, “coming out” has a rich history of different meanings. Originally it…
From: A Trivial Knot
We're having a Pride celebration here in little ol' Morris, Minnesota this afternoon, 2-5pm at Eastside Park. I might stroll…
From: Pharyngula
The transphobes are experiencing the contradictions inherent in their ideas. In England, which has become Transphobe Central, they set up…
From: Pharyngula
Had a dream, felt like the raw setup and environment were recurring, but the feeling of remembering can be fake,…
From: Life's a Gas
In a basketball game between two professional teams in the WNBA, the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky, Caitlin Clark…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_76402" align="alignright" width="150"] Pete Hegseth says transgender people "lack warrior ethos, are liars, lack integrity, are not humble, are…
From: Pharyngula
Hey, what's the deal with the gay antics out here? Lookit that guy up on the stage, kissin' the other…
From: Life's a Gas
I said I was burned out on superhero movies and wasn't going to watch them anymore. But then I saw…
From: Pharyngula
I got an invitation to collaborate (that is, host advertising)! With Red Bull! Hi there! This springs from the team…
From: Pharyngula
I've long wondered how any woman can bear to stay with the selfish scum of the right. There's no accounting…
From: Pharyngula
The pumpkins started to grow and appear to be accelerating now. [caption id="attachment_50451" align="aligncenter" width="800"] © Charly, all rights reserved.…
From: Affinity
We had visitors this weekend! My son Connlann and his wife Ji, escorted our grandson Knut on the long drive…
From: Pharyngula
This month, the Ace Journal Club discussed birth order effects--often cited as evidence of the biological origins of sexual orientation. …
From: A Trivial Knot
You wouldn't think so, and it would be really tough to recruit people into the profession, but this game looks…
From: Pharyngula
It's not just this aching knee that's making me feel dismal, it's the dearth of spiders. I limp around the…
From: Pharyngula
I mentioned the raspberry growth behind my garden already, there is even a picture in one of the older posts.…
From: Affinity
My prize is a lateral meniscus tear. I talked to the doctor today, and she didn't express any urgency. I…
From: Pharyngula
As I emphasized in my posts during the past week, the Scopes trial did not resolve any of the major…
From: Mano Singham
As discussed in the last three posts, as a purely legal matter, the Scopes trial was inconsequential, setting no legal…
From: Mano Singham
As I discussed in my two previous posts, in strictly legal terms, the 1925 Scopes trial had little impact. But…
From: Mano Singham
As I said in my previous post, the Scopes defense team wanted their client to be found guilty of violating…
From: Mano Singham
This week I will review some aspects of the famous 1925 Scopes trial that lasted from July 10 through Tuesday,…
From: Mano Singham
I found this interesting short clip of the versatile physician, writer, director, documentarian, comedian, and public intellectual Jonathan Miller, who…
From: Mano Singham
They have seized on the fact that the New York mayoral Democratic primary winner Zohran Mamdani is a Muslim to…
From: Mano Singham
One of the problems of dealing with distant wars is force protection, the other is logistics. As Napoleon famously said,…
From: Stderr
There are many axioms that people adopt as desirable guidelines to live by, such as the Golden Rule or Kant's…
From: Mano Singham
I was looking up monsters and some chain led to motifs from Middle Eastern art, which led to an article…
From: Life's a Gas
Here's some news to give you the heebie-jeebies. There is a vulnerability in trains where someone can remotely lock the…
From: Pharyngula
It's clear that the Internet has been poisoned by capitalism and AI. Cory Doctorow is unhappy with Google. Google's a…
From: Pharyngula
I thought I struggled with two small children over the weekend, but I just cracked a container in the lab…
From: Pharyngula
Creating accurate time pieces has been a long-standing goal. Some of the earliest devices, such as the sun dial, suffered…
From: Mano Singham
Indian aviation authorities have released the preliminary report on the Air India flight 171 crash that occurred just minutes after…
From: Mano Singham
My granddaughter, Iliana, went spidering this morning and found this beauty. She's a natural!
From: Pharyngula
I caught these two fooling around on the milkweed, naturally. I also collected 3 Parasteatoda egg sacs nearby, so it's…
From: Pharyngula
Oh. It's an experiment. [caption id="attachment_76923" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Tom the Dancing Bug[/caption] Man, I wish we were in the control…
From: Pharyngula
In my state of limited mobility, the best I can do is roam around my yard looking for spiders. I'm…
From: Pharyngula
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the new AI mode called "deep research", and whether…
From: Daylight Atheism
The weekend of my forty-ninth birthday, my brother brought his young daughters to visit. They have very high energy and…
From: Life's a Gas
One of the noteworthy features of the 2024 election was the deep inroads that Trump made into the traditionally Democratic…
From: Mano Singham
The Intercept has a long article, supported by horrifying video evidence, detailing case after case of armed, often masked and…
From: Mano Singham
Elon Musk has a pet chatbot called Grok. He recently gave it some personal attention and updated it. [caption id="attachment_76894"…
From: Pharyngula
You're a baby, then you're a kid, then you're a teenager. My kid years were mostly in Seattle, especially toward…
From: Life's a Gas
Back in 1961, the ground-breaking British sketch comedy revue Beyond the Fringe featuring Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and…
From: Mano Singham
Congress has passed Trump's budget bill and, to no one's surprise, it is an appalling piece of legislation that is…
From: Mano Singham
It is common to hear Americans describe the countries of central and south America as fraught with gang violence compared…
From: Mano Singham
There have been a vast number of news stories and videos of masked plain clothes ICE agents going around in…
From: Mano Singham
The win by Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayoralty Democratic primary has provided a much needed boost to the…
From: Mano Singham
As I emphasized in my posts during the past week, the Scopes trial did not resolve any of the major…
From: Mano Singham
As discussed in the last three posts, as a purely legal matter, the Scopes trial was inconsequential, setting no legal…
From: Mano Singham
As I discussed in my two previous posts, in strictly legal terms, the 1925 Scopes trial had little impact. But…
From: Mano Singham
In the comments, we got a mild objection to the term "Alligator Auschwitz", which is fair, except that it reminded…
From: Pharyngula
As I said in my previous post, the Scopes defense team wanted their client to be found guilty of violating…
From: Mano Singham
This week I will review some aspects of the famous 1925 Scopes trial that lasted from July 10 through Tuesday,…
From: Mano Singham
Had some people doubting my assertion that the gnu atheists significantly contributed to the rise of fascism. My life is…
From: Life's a Gas
The magnitude of the approval of immigration surprises me a bit. Almost 80% of Americans think immigration is a good…
From: Pharyngula
One of the noteworthy features of the 2024 election was the deep inroads that Trump made into the traditionally Democratic…
From: Mano Singham
I'm a fairly skeptical guy. I never bought into those claims that Epstein didn't kill himself -- hey, he was…
From: Pharyngula