Sometimes, I get very interestin' things in the mail... [caption id="attachment_22843" align="alignnone" width="1500"] © C. Ford.[/caption] Thanks, Marcus, it did…
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From: Mano Singham
Please, greeting card industry, we need these cards. But they're also for us thick-skulled scientists who have kids doing very…
From: Pharyngula
The Chemical Crew has a great love of oil paints, which are kept seriously locked up most of the time.…
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From: Pharyngula
Sam Bee is at it again, chronicling the most recent house bill to abort scientific inquiring in the name of…
From: Pervert Justice
The stories of the ghastly behavior of movie mogul Harvey Weinstein are suddenly pouring out like a gusher, revealing someone…
From: Mano Singham
This is the second part of a series about symmetry in origami. Here I talk about the role colors play…
From: A Trivial Knot
Chang'an from John Miller on Vimeo. The simple architectural elements of the game make Minecraft ideal to be used in…
From: Affinity
My views on AI have changed somewhat, from my initial view that AI lacked the creativity to come up with…
From: Stderr
Thomas Smith and I had a conversation this weekend. Whew, he was merciless. Now I know how Carl Benjamin feels.…
From: Pharyngula
If you're ever wondering how the American electorate can be so ignorant, consider these observations. I would like to live…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_22807" align="alignnone" width="929"] Amdusias has 29 legions of demons and spirits under his command. He is depicted as a…
From: Affinity
As I mentioned in my bloggiversary post, good skeptical content creation is hard. In order to debunk something, and do…
From: A Trivial Knot
[caption id="attachment_22780" align="alignnone" width="447"] A poster from the Office for Emergency Management, War Production Board, circa. 1942 – Source.[/caption] The…
From: Affinity
Easter Island has been used as a cautionary tale -- the inhabitants denuded the island of palm trees while wasting…
From: Pharyngula
research
Did you know that the human hand might evolve to better use cell phones, according to research? You know, quote-unquote…
From: Pharyngula
My guest for today is Dr. Juhem Navarro-Rivera. According to his official bio, “Dr. Juhem Navarro-Rivera is a political scientist…
From: Bi Any Means
In my last post, I wrote of how - as the culmination of much reading and thought on the issue…
From: Geeky Humanist
[caption id="attachment_22705" align="alignnone" width="296"] Drunk With Blood: God's Killings in the Bible, by Steve Wells.[/caption] Bryan Fischer has come up…
From: Affinity
GamerGate reached its zenith long before I began writing in earnest. I was fortunate to not be a direct target…
From: Against the Grain
Dana Loesch, spokesmouth for the NRA, was at the Values Voter Summit, declaring the death of feminism. Just in case…
From: Affinity
Friday the 13ths (Fridays the 13th?) are days on which I speak out in favour of decriminalising prostitution and abolishing…
From: Geeky Humanist
This study comes to a happy conclusion, and then wrecks it all with EP bullshit. What the researchers did was…
From: Pharyngula
As the revelations about Harvey Weinstein grow ever more miserable and appalling, so too does the state of commentary on…
Exactly right. https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/918537039871660035
From: Pharyngula
More and more of these accounts of being "Harveyed" are coming out of Hollywood: now it's Léa Seydoux and Zoë…
From: Pharyngula
Goodness me. Areomagazine has an "article" up by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay that takes itself far more seriously than…
From: Pervert Justice
I have had to make a decision recently that is not the rational choice. Since I spend a fair amount…
From: Odgraphix
On May 15, 2017, a Medium user published an article to her personal handle arguing — among many other things — that the presence…
From: Against the Grain
Eventually I will stop making fun of the "tactical" gear mindset. But for now, since I'm stuck in an airport,…
From: Stderr
I'm keeping up with the news from Ireland, where Ophelia is rushing up the west coast. Hurricanes and fierce winds…
From: Pharyngula
By Reporter X With Mayor Roger Claar on a business trip and Deputy Mayor Leroy Brown on medical leave, the…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
My posting about the paradox of "self defense" triggered much more response than I expected. [stderr] Like many of you,…
From: Stderr
I made a curry tonight, and was asked to share my recipe. I was a little reluctant, because this is…
From: Pharyngula
So the Cleveland Indians, the baseball team of my hometown, was eliminated from the championship playoffs by the New York…
From: Mano Singham
We need some of these now and then. I know I was reading about the possibility of the Yellowstone supervolcano…
From: Pharyngula
I still despise Twitter as a platform, principally because it refuses to do anything about its infestation of Nazi shitheels.…
From: Against the Grain
I will be traveling the next few days to visit my infant grandson as well as visiting old friends on…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_22676" align="alignnone" width="1600"] C. Ford. Click for full size.[/caption] I have a number of old 'enquire within' type books,…
From: Affinity
“We’re getting near that beautiful Christmas season that people don’t talk about anymore. They don’t use the word ‘Christmas’ because…
From: The Digital Cuttlefish
I have had to make a decision recently that is not the rational choice. Since I spend a fair amount…
From: Odgraphix
Among the many tax benefits that religious clergy get is that any housing allowance that they are given is exempt…
From: Mano Singham
The rapid succession of shooting tragedies has resulted in people realizing that the phrase ' sending our thoughts and prayers'…
From: Mano Singham
Well lookee here. Rep. Tim Murphy resigns from Congress after allegedly asking woman to have abortion Rep. Tim Murphy told…
From: Death to Squirrels
Since there are currently no pressing problems facing our great nation, the US House of Reprehensibles has just passed HB…
From: Death to Squirrels
There is this odd fantasy that some religious people indulge in that they think that atheists secretly feel some void…
From: Mano Singham
Patricia Grell, well known on this blag for being basically the only Catholic with a conscience in the whole of…
From: Against the Grain
I swear, I find it amazing that they even half know what they're saying, but they do. They know exactly…
From: Pervert Justice
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) wrote an essay titled That to study philosophy is to learn to die. It is not…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_36244" align="aligncenter" width="500"] BoingBoing[/caption] Serial cables are neutral? No way. Chaotic evil. I had to make too many of…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_22829" align="alignnone" width="720"] Visualization of networks in Brooklyn, and a map to escape them, on the White Spots app…
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[caption id="attachment_36239" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Strange Animals[/caption]
From: Pharyngula
A bit about the early development of human gonads. A few useful sources: Sadler TW. 2014. Langman's Medical Embryology. LWW.…
From: Pharyngula
One of the first things people learn about microwaves ovens is to never put any metal objects in it. So…
From: Mano Singham
Josiah Zayner is a self-proclaimed bio-hacker. He sells CRISPR/CAS9 home gene editing kits, and he goes to conferences where he…
From: Pharyngula
For Halloween, I was going to find a scary picture of a cephalopod skeleton, but gosh, squid tend not to…
From: Pharyngula
This study comes to a happy conclusion, and then wrecks it all with EP bullshit. What the researchers did was…
From: Pharyngula
In computer security transitive trust is when system A trusts B, and system B trusts C - in that case…
From: Stderr
Jordi van Gestel and Corina Tarnita have published a 'Perspective' in PNAS, "On the origin of biological construction, with a focus…
From: Fierce Roller
Jezebel has been posting stories over the past several weeks from parents of children that have been involved in the…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
GamerGate reached its zenith long before I began writing in earnest. I was fortunate to not be a direct target…
From: Against the Grain
One of the many reasons I have difficulty assuming right-wing commentators engage in good faith is the abundance of projection…
From: Against the Grain
Sam Bee is at it again, chronicling the most recent house bill to abort scientific inquiring in the name of…
From: Pervert Justice
While it's not exactly news to say that there are racists in Utah, this particular story captured my eye (h/t…
From: Pervert Justice
Yet another tip from Shaun King, whom I've come to respect more and more. This from my home town, Portland,…
From: Pervert Justice
My guest for today is Dr. Juhem Navarro-Rivera. According to his official bio, “Dr. Juhem Navarro-Rivera is a political scientist…
From: Bi Any Means
In a story in The Advocate (no, not that one, I'm talking about the one that is slightly less gay…
From: Pervert Justice
[caption id="attachment_22710" align="alignnone" width="800"] Steve Prattor, Sheriff of Caddo Parish in Louisiana, addresses reporters (Screen cap).[/caption] Apparently, Sheriff Steve Prattor…
From: Affinity
By racist rape apologists, we are of course including Trump, but the instigator here is Tucker Carlson acting on behalf…
From: Pervert Justice
The underfunded public school system here in Texas is about to face another problem: should Dreamers be forced out of…
From: Freethinking Ahead
The TV show Black-ish presented a brief animated story I am a slave sung by The Roots in the style…
From: Mano Singham
Jezebel has been posting stories over the past several weeks from parents of children that have been involved in the…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
The motives of Stephen Paddock, the person who killed 58 people and injured hundreds in a shooting spree in Las…
From: Mano Singham
When the US invaded Iraq and overthrew the government, we heard a bit about "nation-building" until the establishment discovered it…
From: Stderr
From: Mano Singham
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/919553423812579328 "Tillerson says Trump wants diplomacy in North Korea: "Diplomatic efforts will continue until the first bomb drops"" Uh...is that…
From: Affinity
The Republicans made the issue of US deaths in the Libyan town of Benghazi the centerpiece of multiple investigations of…
From: Mano Singham
My posting about the paradox of "self defense" triggered much more response than I expected. [stderr] Like many of you,…
From: Stderr
Donald Trump has decided to cut the federal subsidies that helped make the insurance premiums on the health exchanges more…
From: Mano Singham