Some trivial trivia about Czech beer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNmWkQRhjXY The juvenile joke about feminism aside, it is indeed true that one of…
From: Affinity
Given where I'm trying to go with my career at this point, I've had to build up (what I hope…
From: Impossible Me
The wind has begun to howl, and promises to rise. The temperatures are frigidly bitter. The first snowflakes are falling,…
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People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald’s hash brown if it’s all they’ve got. – Patton Oswalt I'm…
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In an excellent analysis, she reminds us to ignore the trivial fights that CNN and the other media love to…
From: Mano Singham
He describes how before, during, and after the debate CNN completely abandoned any pretense of objectivity and neutrality and single-mindedly…
From: Mano Singham
There's something about the internet mindset - the anonymity (or, I should say, "apparent anonymity") on both sides, that brings…
From: Stderr
I have expressed many times my distaste for the British royal family, or for royalty anywhere in the world for…
From: Mano Singham
Well, that's according to a voluntary survey, anyway. I turn 53 next month and I'm still dancing until all hours…
From: Intransitive
Photographer Ryoto Kajita photographs methane bubbles making patterns in frozen lakes. There is more at The Guardian: [guard] I'm not…
From: Stderr
Oh lord. This looks awful. It's Matt Dillahunty in a debate with some evangelical clown named Glen Scrivener, where he…
From: Pharyngula
Oh boy. Ars Technica got to see the first episodes of Gwyneth Paltrow's series. Do you think they liked it?…
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From [youtube]@3:46 The right, at this point, is simply suicidal. It's not a question of going too far. The right…
From: Stderr
Rebecca Watson tears into Gwyneth Paltrow. She sounds mad. She should be. This is a fucking disgrace.
From: Pharyngula
'Deciphering the Gospels', by R. G. Price*, argues the case for Jesus mythicism (i.e. the position that Jesus never existed.)…
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Okay, so this is a quick note for those folks who aren't completely turned off by pedantry and appreciate thinking…
From: Pervert Justice
Gwyneth Paltrow would have you believe that her vagina smells like this: With a funny, gorgeous, sexy, and beautifully unexpected…
From: Pharyngula
My daughter is working towards a Ph.D. in computational linguistics (I think…when she talks about her research I only understand…
From: Pharyngula
How humans perceive the world is subject to interpretation. The stories we tell ourselves about the events we experienced or…
From: Andreas Avester
How do people find information? When it comes to safe sex, people are pretty much self-taught. Some had abstinence-only sex…
From: Andreas Avester
I recommended that short story by Isabel Fell, “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” to you all because I…
From: Pharyngula
Ayanna Pressley has just released a video through The Root about losing her hair over the last 6 months as…
From: Pervert Justice
Content Warning: Explicit Talk of Sexual Harassment. I'm six foot tall, 250 pounds, AMAB, masc-looking with a big white beard…
From: Great American Satan
This has been crossposted to The Asexual Agenda. "Subversivism", according to Julia Serano, is the practice of extolling certain gender…
From: A Trivial Knot
I had been wondering about what would happen to the Equal Rights Amendment ever since Democrats took control of both…
From: Mano Singham
There's something about the internet mindset - the anonymity (or, I should say, "apparent anonymity") on both sides, that brings…
From: Stderr
Well, today the Virginia legislature ratified the ERA, making it the 38th state to have done so. This does not…
From: Pervert Justice
Empathy is at the core of justice. Without an ability to place oneself in another's situation, it would be hard…
From: Pervert Justice
Why should a person who isn’t a sadist even want to make decisions about what will happen with other people?…
From: Andreas Avester
Tell me if this sounds familiar. MIT students confronted Seth Lloyd about his affiliation with Jeffrey Epstein, and he made…
From: Pharyngula
This is not supposed to be possible. How do you redirect grant funds to strip clubs? The former chair of…
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From: Great American Satan
Once again we have an utterly absurd fuss ginned up by Republicans over the fact that speaker of the House…
From: Mano Singham
In case you missed it, PZ Myers launched a FTB Discord server. As part of that, several blogs started dedicated…
From: A Trivial Knot
I keep looking outside and thinking, "It's not too bad yet, I can probably make it to the lab and…
From: Pharyngula
Anyone who has worked at a large organization, especially if they have been in charge of a department or section,…
From: Mano Singham
It's -22°C out there, and I decided to take a brisk walk to the grocery store to stock up on…
From: Pharyngula
Today was my first real workday since the beginning of the year - today was the first day I did…
From: Affinity
It's indescribably beautiful! It was a stunning prize notification to arrive in my email this morning. There's even a press…
From: Pharyngula
While grocery shopping, I always compare prices between similar products and read the labels. Especially the fine print. The smaller…
From: Andreas Avester
One good, one bad. "Confessionals" are allegedly absolutes and absolution - You can say anything inside and be "forgiven", but…
From: Intransitive
It has always been absurd that the followers of a faith that believes in an all-powerful deity would think that…
From: Mano Singham
And they must be propitiated. They are ubiquitous in human cultures across time and space because they actually exist. As…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
At the height of the battles over the efforts of intelligent design creationists (IDC) to have their ideas taught as…
From: Mano Singham
Of the major religions, Buddhism carries with it the least amount of supernatural baggage (though not entirely devoid of it)…
From: Mano Singham
The sixth annual meeting of this group that features "a day of free presentations on science, skepticism and critical thinking"…
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Christian Conservative Liberty Loving Republican
Am I the only person who remembers the movie Nothing But Trouble, with Dan Akroyd as Judge Alvin Valkenheiser, the…
From: Pharyngula
In watching an earlier Democratic debate, I mentioned how surprised I was to see an ad featuring Ron Reagan, former…
From: Mano Singham
When members of the Jewish community are attacked because they are Jewish, one immediately thinks that the attacker will be…
From: Mano Singham
Can we give Texas back to Mexico soon? Is it too early to politicize this?
From: Stderr
I'm back! I survived my trek to the lab! It wasn't as bad as I made it sound -- the…
From: Pharyngula
Anyone who has worked at a large organization, especially if they have been in charge of a department or section,…
From: Mano Singham
From [youtube]@3:46 The right, at this point, is simply suicidal. It's not a question of going too far. The right…
From: Stderr
This is straight from the ALGAE-L listserv, but I thought it might be of interest: PhD studentship: The ecology and…
From: Fierce Roller
You've missed the spiders, haven't you? I was away for a week, and only today had time to spend a…
From: Pharyngula
Another of Mary's bizarre arachnids showed up in the tree outside my office window today. I don't get it. It…
From: Pharyngula
I've been complaining for years, as have others. The defenders of evolutionary psychology just carry on, doing more and more…
From: Pharyngula
While she's away, I'm expected to take care of my wife's animals, but so far I'm finding them mystifying. I…
From: Pharyngula
Jackson Wheat has a new video answering Creation Ministries International's claims that multicellularity is a problem for evolution. CMI's strategy…
From: Fierce Roller
Growing up in the tropics where it was always hot during the day and there were very few buildings that…
From: Mano Singham
Ayanna Pressley has just released a video through The Root about losing her hair over the last 6 months as…
From: Pervert Justice
From [youtube]@3:46 The right, at this point, is simply suicidal. It's not a question of going too far. The right…
From: Stderr
I had been wondering about what would happen to the Equal Rights Amendment ever since Democrats took control of both…
From: Mano Singham
I am impressed with this detailed dissection of the recent collapse of the Romance Writers of America. Not only does…
From: Pharyngula
I guess the cost of influence went up. It's not enough anymore to just offer free candy from your beat-up…
From: Pharyngula
Well, today the Virginia legislature ratified the ERA, making it the 38th state to have done so. This does not…
From: Pervert Justice
Empathy is at the core of justice. Without an ability to place oneself in another's situation, it would be hard…
From: Pervert Justice
Why should a person who isn’t a sadist even want to make decisions about what will happen with other people?…
From: Andreas Avester
I'm working on a couple pieces relating to this, but I wanted to post this video, because it makes some…
From: Oceanoxia
Okay, so this is a quick note for those folks who aren't completely turned off by pedantry and appreciate thinking…
From: Pervert Justice
I tried to collect in one place all the adjectives that describe Donald Trump's qualities and so far have come…
From: Mano Singham
In Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes [wc] he writes at one point that what the US needed was an intelligence…
From: Stderr
Ayanna Pressley has just released a video through The Root about losing her hair over the last 6 months as…
From: Pervert Justice
Once again we have an utterly absurd fuss ginned up by Republicans over the fact that speaker of the House…
From: Mano Singham
I don't read Chait enough to diagnose why I don't care for him -- his vaguely liberal views always make…
From: Pharyngula
From [youtube]@3:46 The right, at this point, is simply suicidal. It's not a question of going too far. The right…
From: Stderr
In an excellent analysis, she reminds us to ignore the trivial fights that CNN and the other media love to…
From: Mano Singham
I had been wondering about what would happen to the Equal Rights Amendment ever since Democrats took control of both…
From: Mano Singham
He describes how before, during, and after the debate CNN completely abandoned any pretense of objectivity and neutrality and single-mindedly…
From: Mano Singham
This cartoon by Ted Rall describes the process by which the unthinkable slowly becomes the reality. [caption id="attachment_56842" align="aligncenter" width="758"]…
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