cn: Discussion of Holocaust media, while avoiding discussion of the Holocaust itself. Train (2009) is a board game slash art…
From: A Trivial Knot
By Reporter X CosMc’s, the first restaurant to combine Venusian inferno cuisine and chain fast food, will open in…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
To no one's surprise, there is going to be a made-for-TV film about serial fabulist and no ex-congressperson George Santos.…
From: Mano Singham
I just wanted to share a link to the Kansas City Oasis program this morning. Dr. Ray gave a really…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
no idea what to say about these, how to explain how i arrived at them. i just think, this might…
From: Great American Satan
My dude and I were making some AI images, and while I've been doing more sensible things like the image…
From: Great American Satan
Last year I watched my next-door neighbor march all her pumpkins out to the trash can bright and early on…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
[caption id="attachment_4780" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Wave by Ilan Garibi, in turn inspired by Goran Konjevod[/caption] This model is created by pleat…
From: A Trivial Knot
Once again, we need a comedy show (The Daily Show's Michelle Wolf, Ronny Chieng, and Michael Kosta) to give us…
From: Mano Singham
Well, I finally saw it. This is going to be a sort of scatter-shot review. I feel weird saying "spoilers…
From: Stderr
I just wanted to share a link to the Kansas City Oasis program this morning. Dr. Ray gave a really…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
It sounds contradictory to combine science and their fake, unscientific ark, but that's what Answers in Genesis plans to do.…
From: Pharyngula
I forgot all about this debate. These signs will be going up around campus, so I guess I'm committed. Or…
From: Pharyngula
I've featured Michael Voris several times here -- he was the front man for an organization called the Church Militant,…
From: Pharyngula
Here's a fascinating old photo. [caption id="attachment_71637" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Farmer Olof Öhman (center), who reported the artifact’s discovery in 1898,…
From: Pharyngula
Ken Ham is pissed off at this song from an upcoming Disney movie. I know nothing about the movie, nor…
From: Pharyngula
If you've never heard of David Rives before, you're fortunate: he's a lesser creationist best known for the well-fed, smug,…
From: Pharyngula
Assembly Theorypops up again
This morning I was surprised to see Assembly Theory popping up all over in my social media. Did somebody find…
From: Pharyngula
In a totally unsurprising announcement, Ayaan Hirsi Ali renounces atheism and declares herself a Christian. I half-expected this to happen…
From: Pharyngula
What is the purpose of life? It is to find meaning. [Viktor Frank] The title is not a misprint. Everyone,…
From: Jonathan's Musings
The arcane rules that the US senate has set for itself gives enormous powers to even a single senator to…
From: Mano Singham
I just wanted to share a link to the Kansas City Oasis program this morning. Dr. Ray gave a really…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Every once in a while, some conservative dweeb gets upset at the fact that liberal women do not like conservative…
From: Pharyngula
My daughter was at her grandpa's house tonight so my husband and I took advantage of our child-free time to…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
The recent defeats at elections has resulted in the GOP scrambling to find a message on abortion that will placate…
From: Mano Singham
Bill Ackman is a hedge-fund billionaire who was very concerned that an MIT professor allowed a student to promote a…
From: Pharyngula
While the top line election results on Tuesday were good for Democrats, the picture looks even better when you look…
From: Mano Singham
Now I'm just making myself depressed. This is Bubba Copeland. He was the Republican mayor of a small town in…
From: Pharyngula
In gay fiction, the nerd/jock romance is a very common trope. In the standard take, the jock is an attractive…
From: A Trivial Knot
I have not seen any episodes of the TV series The Bachelor but have seen clips and read enough news…
From: Mano Singham
My tracking wheels made from alu-tubing had a diameter just 30 mm, so the ball bearings were running really rough…
From: Affinity
After pointing out the excessive length of that otherwise praiseworthy hbomberguy video, I see that it is prompting some useful…
From: Pharyngula
This is my scientific history in a series of short acronyms. [caption id="attachment_71811" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Tom Gauld[/caption] I know the…
From: Pharyngula
You know I'm no fan of college football and think the whole institution is a perversion of the academic life,…
From: Pharyngula
It's the worst time of the year. I have to review everything I've taught this semester, I have to give…
From: Pharyngula
I just wanted to share a link to the Kansas City Oasis program this morning. Dr. Ray gave a really…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Last night, I saw that hbomberguy had put out a new video, and I started to watch it. Couldn't finish…
From: Pharyngula
Last year I watched my next-door neighbor march all her pumpkins out to the trash can bright and early on…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
There is a company claiming to be opening a hotel in space -- a great big spinning wheel like the…
From: Pharyngula
I got up at 4:30am, went straight to work and hammered out the exam & exam key for my students,…
From: Pharyngula
I just wanted to share a link to the Kansas City Oasis program this morning. Dr. Ray gave a really…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
As one of those people who grew up in the 60s, and who tended to ignore the need for trimming…
From: Pharyngula
[I posted some of this over at Mano's] You've probably heard the parable (which is wrong, by the way) about…
From: Stderr
It's mystifying. I'm not a fan of the company, OpenAI -- they're the ones hyping up ChatGPT, they're 49% owned…
From: Pharyngula
I wasn't able to track down the 19th century book that inspired this post, but I suspect the book itself…
From: Great American Satan
Ken Ham is pissed off at this song from an upcoming Disney movie. I know nothing about the movie, nor…
From: Pharyngula
Trying to find a source for some half-remembered knowledge. This is a real long shot, but I hope one of…
From: Great American Satan
It makes perfect sense. Send tanks and bulldozers and soldiers into Gaza, and then when the panicked, displaced residents end…
From: Pharyngula
I had a heart-related health scare today, and spent most of the day in the hospital getting checked out. Some…
From: Oceanoxia
Every four years, Americans who value human life, and see the ills caused by capitalism, are pushed to vote for…
From: Oceanoxia
Well, this is a horror story about coding incompetence. There is this nice gadget that can be controlled from your…
From: Pharyngula
I just wanted to share a link to the Kansas City Oasis program this morning. Dr. Ray gave a really…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
What can I say? All that matters in the long run is the population -- vaporizing a few individuals now…
From: Pharyngula
iNaturalist does this thing where they'll give you a graphical summary of your contributions in the past year. Here's mine.…
From: Pharyngula
I was booking flights to Seattle this morning, a fairly short hop away from Minneapolis, when I saw another interesting…
From: Pharyngula
Loeb gets a quick filleting from Rebecca. I know exactly how Loeb would respond, if he were to even notice,…
From: Pharyngula
I guess enough people complained about the stupidity of their article about spider eggs in some dork's toe. They've posted…
From: Pharyngula
I for one would really like to see self-driving cars become an everyday reality, as common as cars are now.…
From: Mano Singham
The Weinersmiths were interviewed by Adam Conover -- it's an hour-long video but it's worth it. They're talking about their…
From: Pharyngula
This is a story that is egregiously bogus. Wolf spider lays eggs in man's toe during cruise. No. Just no.…
From: Pharyngula
Gonna use ableist language in this post, obviously, but not as an endorsement, also obviously - I hope. A common…
From: Great American Satan
Some of you may remember the college admissions scandal of a few years ago in which many famous actors and…
From: Mano Singham
Xitter is currently facing an advertiser boycott, all because Musk has been promoting, and contributing to, a culture of racism,…
From: Pharyngula
In the US, wealthy owners of professional sports teams have long practiced the art of extortion on the local citizens…
From: Mano Singham
Chris Rufo strutted into a lecture at a school of business at the University of Texas, which you'd think would…
From: Pharyngula
A video of a man, a former state department official and reportedly an advisor to president Obama, harassing a street…
From: Mano Singham
Jim Irsay, the billionaire owner of an NFL football team, was arrested in 2014 for driving while impaired. In a…
From: Mano Singham
[I posted some of this over at Mano's] You've probably heard the parable (which is wrong, by the way) about…
From: Stderr
In the US, so-called 'Dollar stores' are ubiquitous. There are two very close to where I live. These stores offer…
From: Mano Singham
As the death toll from the Israeli assault on Gaze rises to horrifying levels, with bombing attacks on even hospitals…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_71807" align="alignright" width="150"] You wouldn't believe how popular this sentiment is on the right-wing/New Age side of the internet.…
From: Pharyngula
To no one's surprise, there is going to be a made-for-TV film about serial fabulist and no ex-congressperson George Santos.…
From: Mano Singham
Shortly before Tegan and I decided to leave the United States, hopefully never to return, we considered buying a house.…
From: Oceanoxia
Following the riot on January 6th 2021, a Democratic congressperson and two Capitol police officers brought lawsuits against serial sex…
From: Mano Singham
The House of Representatives voted today to expel George Santos from the body by a vote of 311-114, well above…
From: Mano Singham
I know it's hard to believe, but George Santos has been expelled from congress. By a vote of 311-114, the…
From: Pharyngula
Once again, we need a comedy show (The Daily Show's Michelle Wolf, Ronny Chieng, and Michael Kosta) to give us…
From: Mano Singham
News from the Florida GOP: Christian Ziegler, Florida’s GOP chairman and husband of Sarasota County School Board member and Moms…
From: Pharyngula
The war criminal and terrible person
From: Mano Singham
Henry Kissinger has died, 100 years old. He was a monster, who was held in high regards by the political…
From: Pro-Science