Some interviewers of authors have not read the books prior to broadcast and depend on the authors to drive the…
From: Mano Singham
I do not like violent films with a lot of blood and gore but am a big fan of the…
From: Mano Singham
Today I was surprised to learn that there was one time -- one time only -- that Charlie Brown managed…
From: Pharyngula
I play a lot of challenging puzzle games. For others who are interested in the same niche, I've made a…
From: A Trivial Knot
A genre of books I've always loved are the ones where there are a hidden version of the city, which…
From: Pro-Science
Lest anyone get the impression I'm not deep, allow me to present some art worthy of a junior high student's…
From: Great American Satan
He continues his mission of talking to Trump supporters who believe in the wackiest things. I think the relentless insanity…
From: Mano Singham
I think I mentioned before that I've reduced our meat consumption drastically over the last year or so. I'm not…
From: Affinity
On the latest episode of his show Last Week Tonight, John Oliver continues his series of exposes on the awful…
From: Mano Singham
Periodically I come across post and articles on social media where schools have punished kids for going to the toilet,…
From: Affinity
The Serpent Mound in Ohio is an amazing artifact of a past culture -- earthworks over 400m long in the…
From: Pharyngula
I mentioned this in the comments of my last posting, but I think it's worth going into a bit more…
From: Stderr
I've been in a few. I hate 'em. Here's how they work: the ID proponent declares that the thesis of…
From: Pharyngula
It's the hot topic, so I must weigh in upon it. No; that's not true. It's the hot topic and…
From: Stderr
Nothing for a year, and suddenly I've got two meetings at once this week. The big one is the annual…
From: Pharyngula
This is a difficult topic, for me, because it entails trying to pull together a bunch of tangled threads that…
From: Stderr
Last summer during the BLM protests a lot of folk wrote in to say that they not only appreciated my…
From: Pervert Justice
Sheesh. You have one conversation with one of these slimy wankers, and they never let it go. I've been getting…
From: Pharyngula
I'm trying to pretend I didn't. The ol' Firebrand Atheist is now reduced to antivaxxer/conspiracy theory apologetics.
From: Pharyngula
Now that we've paid off our share of our legal debt, I'm getting all these questions about why we didn't…
From: Pharyngula
One of the mystifying things about the Jeffrey Epstein saga is how many well-known scientists were sucked into his orbit…
From: Mano Singham
Last night, I was listening to Katy Montgomerie's latest TERF Wars video while I was supposedly puttering away at a…
From: Pharyngula
I have never understood the aversion. Is it because I learned the term as part of Science Latin (all scientists…
From: Pharyngula
Even thought the US Supreme Court has weighed in over the past few years with some momentous advances for LGBT…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_2765" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Microscopy closeup of Ophiojura, a newly discovered species from a newly known genus, from a…
From: Pervert Justice
In a recent post, I mentioned in passing that I do not call myself a feminist even though I consider…
From: Mano Singham
Now THIS is an unpleasant shock. From the Minneapolis StarTribune: The FBI arrested three more men Friday in connection with…
From: Pervert Justice
Gordon Moore said in 1965 (Moore's Law) that the number of transistors per silicon chip doubles every year. I wonder…
From: Intransitive
The leftist Pedro Castillo, a teacher from the rural areas of Peru, is holding a very slim lead over the…
From: Mano Singham
Rainbow capitalism sucks. It's sickening to watch corporations wrap themselves in flags and pretend to "care" just to make a…
From: Intransitive
When waiting for my father to come back from a doctor's appointment, I wandered around a bit and went into…
From: Affinity
From my perspective, many American customs, values, and cultural expectations are weird. American attitudes towards charity are among those cultural…
From: Andreas Avester
I'll start: Thing1: My dad said this is supposed to be a librarian joke, but I'm not so sure. Thing2:…
From: Pervert Justice
I'm going to be uncharacteristically open about something that has emotional weight for me. But, because it's important to me,…
From: Stderr
Happy Father's Day to all of you who had fathers you want to honor!
From: Pharyngula
Yeah, you. Get to work preparing your talk and putting it on video. Our theme for Skepticon 13, starting on…
From: Pharyngula
A genre of books I've always loved are the ones where there are a hidden version of the city, which…
From: Pro-Science
Unfortunately, I was taking these pictures against the sun and I did not have too much time to get the…
From: Affinity
When Stephen J. Gould said that there is no such thing as a fish, he was referring to the fact…
From: Oceanoxia
In my last rant about the stupid "weapon" law in Germany, I mentioned that nuns chuckers are illegal to even…
From: Affinity
Phil Torres has published a scathing essay that looks closely at the ugly trajectories that the careers of a group…
From: Mano Singham
You could have guessed that this would be coming. I had a discussion/debate with some Muslim creationists a few months…
From: Pharyngula
One of the shameful features of US history is its attempted genocide of the indigenous people here. Apart from the…
From: Mano Singham
While I am an atheist, I can understand the appeal that the idea of a god has for some people,…
From: Mano Singham
There are a few articles around now about how laughable Qanon is. It's true, they're the most absurd and easily…
From: Great American Satan
It's called the buybull because believers buy the bull. George Barna of the "Cultural Research Center" at Arizona Christian University, has…
From: Intransitive
I love my life here in Toledo. I love the people, the opportunities, and the shit ton of restaurants and…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Alabama has, after nearly three decades, lifted the ban on teaching yoga in public schools. Alabama has lifted a three-decade-long…
From: Mano Singham
This is some "fifty shades of gray" bullshit. Would you believe what being a good Christian demands of women? It's…
From: Pharyngula
Ashlie D. Stevens reviews a new podcast series The Turning: The Sisters Who Left that talks to some of the…
From: Mano Singham
I know which side I'm on -- the winning side, and that would be the spiders. Here's a whole photo…
From: Pharyngula
Recently there has been an upsurge of interest into the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the one that causes covid-19,…
From: Mano Singham
This video provides a good look at a flood barrier system Venice recently completed. It's a remarkable feat of engineering…
From: Oceanoxia
These electrified versions of a child's toy are becoming a popular form of adult transportation, able to travel at speeds…
From: Mano Singham
Grey, cloudy, cool, raining. We did a little early morning spidering, checking out the Stevens County Fairgrounds, and found nearly…
From: Pharyngula
This is a difficult topic, for me, because it entails trying to pull together a bunch of tangled threads that…
From: Stderr
When Stephen J. Gould said that there is no such thing as a fish, he was referring to the fact…
From: Oceanoxia
Here's what's nice about being an early bird: it's cool still, it's quiet, the spiders built their webs overnight and…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_2765" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Microscopy closeup of Ophiojura, a newly discovered species from a newly known genus, from a…
From: Pervert Justice
All the Dutch angles just tell you that a spider lab is kind of creepy so you should be feeling…
From: Pharyngula
It has long been conventional wisdom that having more people vote is good for Democrats while having fewer people vote…
From: Mano Singham
The details are a bit tough to track, so here's a timeline. June 15th, 2021: Harriet Hall publishes a book…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
From my perspective, many American customs, values, and cultural expectations are weird. American attitudes towards charity are among those cultural…
From: Andreas Avester
As it becomes increasingly clear that leftist Pedro Castillo has won the presidential election in Peru, losing right wing candidate…
From: Mano Singham
I had long been an admirer and supporter of the work of these two people. Indeed, I first came across…
From: Mano Singham
This is a difficult topic, for me, because it entails trying to pull together a bunch of tangled threads that…
From: Stderr
Last summer during the BLM protests a lot of folk wrote in to say that they not only appreciated my…
From: Pervert Justice
Lest anyone get the impression I'm not deep, allow me to present some art worthy of a junior high student's…
From: Great American Satan
Today, this Whitey McWhiteperson yields (most of) this space to BIPOC.* Following are messages I received from two congresspersons I…
From: Death to Squirrels
On the eve of the first Juneteenth Holiday, Rabbi Adam Chalom, the rabbi of Kol Hadash and the North American…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
They dragged in a general to testify about critical race theory. They didn't get the answer they expected. https://twitter.com/dave_brown24/status/1407745748909838343 I…
From: Pharyngula
One of the mystifying things about the Jeffrey Epstein saga is how many well-known scientists were sucked into his orbit…
From: Mano Singham
It has long been conventional wisdom that having more people vote is good for Democrats while having fewer people vote…
From: Mano Singham
I mentioned this in the comments of my last posting, but I think it's worth going into a bit more…
From: Stderr
Recently there has been an upsurge of interest into the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the one that causes covid-19,…
From: Mano Singham
From my perspective, many American customs, values, and cultural expectations are weird. American attitudes towards charity are among those cultural…
From: Andreas Avester
This video provides a good look at a flood barrier system Venice recently completed. It's a remarkable feat of engineering…
From: Oceanoxia
If any ad can impress me, it's impressive; I am a hard target. This guy's another minister, and normally I…
From: Stderr
It's the hot topic, so I must weigh in upon it. No; that's not true. It's the hot topic and…
From: Stderr
Why else would Tom Cotton include the full text of his letter to Joe Biden, warning him of his insane…
From: Pharyngula