This comic strip will strike a chord with many readers who have spent a long time idly skimming through the…
From: Mano Singham
Herbert Spencer would be so proud. [caption id="attachment_68024" align="aligncenter" width="500"] SMBC[/caption] One quibble: evolution by natural selection isn't the fundamental…
From: Pharyngula
I finally figured out how to post an audio sample from my current audiobook, Pathways to Bolingbrook. It's a collection…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
This was from three weeks ago, soon after Liz Truss became prime minister, where he deplores the state of the…
From: Mano Singham
George Bernard Shaw is best known as a playwright but he was also, especially early in his career, a critic…
From: Mano Singham
I was looking at some pictures (they were unavoidable) of the queen's lying-in-state, and I noticed an odd thing. The…
From: Stderr
So I got a philosophy for the end of the world inspired by a Junji Ito comic, Hellstar Remina, in…
From: Great American Satan
This is a chapter-by-chapter review of problematic romance novel ‘Walking Disaster’ by Jamie McGuire. Posts in the series will all…
From: Geeky Humanist
Dear Daughter, It’s fall 2022 and a new school year has begun – first grade. More reading. More math. More…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
This British documentary directed and narrated by Mark Cousins looks at the history of film making around the world starting…
From: Mano Singham
Living with a mental illness can be an absolute shit show. I’ve had some serious ups and downs over the…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
We are the heroes of our own mythology. This year, we find ourselves even further under the nuclear threat. Russia's…
From: Stderr
So I got a philosophy for the end of the world inspired by a Junji Ito comic, Hellstar Remina, in…
From: Great American Satan
Jesus fuck, but I despise the debate cultists. The most ignorant, unpleasant, dishonest people seem to have adopted this grift:…
From: Pharyngula
Dear Daughter, It’s fall 2022 and a new school year has begun – first grade. More reading. More math. More…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Kent Hovind has been dealing with some legal issues lately -- in particular, he had a court date to argue…
From: Pharyngula
When you are in recovery, you are bound to encounter the topic of “resilience”. It’s a certain toughness – an…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Kent Hovind recycled a video titled Aronra, Professor Dave, & PZ Meyers get OWNED by Kent Hovind's Assistant, originally posted…
From: Pharyngula
I was on an episode of Reason with Science a while back, and it was just posted. I was talkative,…
From: Pharyngula
I have been incredibly busy, so I am way behind on my posts. This one is not even done, so…
From: Jonathan's Musings
As fascism rises around the world, we're going to see a lot of bigotry and oppression justified in the name…
From: Oceanoxia
On 16 September 2022, 22 year old Jina Mahsa Amini was killed by the morality police in Tehran, Iran leading…
From: Pro-Science
I have proof by anecdote. That wimpy child was feminized. Those men were wrecked by soy products and the mainstreaming…
From: Pharyngula
From a comment I wrote on WHTM, lightly edited for clarity absent its original context: So many people have announced…
From: Pervert Justice
I've been working on a couple posts about this general topic for a while now, and I'm hoping I'll have…
From: Oceanoxia
Ever since my daughter learned the colors she knew her favorite was pink. She’s six now and that hasn’t changed.…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I just want to note here (after a frustrating conversation elsewhere) so I can link to this later in the…
From: Pervert Justice
They're everywhere. The NSF has released a horrifying report on sexual harassment and assault at US Antarctic program -- there…
From: Pharyngula
When I was a kid, and nobody knew what an asshole Scott Adams is, I loved reading Dilbert. I think…
From: Oceanoxia
I find conservatives' obsession with gender affirmation therapy to be disturbing and bizarre. This Libs of TikTok fanatic, Chaya Raichik,…
From: Pharyngula
My mother continues to get better. I have harvested over 50 kg of plums and about 10 kg of apples…
From: Affinity
It's very difficult to take these kinds of criticisms seriously, when they are so profoundly stupid. Your posts about Jordan…
From: Pharyngula
Living with a mental illness can be an absolute shit show. I’ve had some serious ups and downs over the…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
There are 7.98 billion people on planet Earth. This is one of their stories. (I was interviewed for a podcast.…
From: Pharyngula
This doesn't look like pleasant weather. I think you need a sacrifice. I recommend staking out your governor somewhere in…
From: Pharyngula
Tegan is finally home from three weeks out of town, and both His Holiness and I are very happy. She's…
From: Oceanoxia
A common rule for people recovering from an eating disorder is to avoid conversations about dieting, so when I came…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Émile P. Torres just pointed out the existence of this 5 year old video. Elon Musk, Stuart Russell, Ray Kurzweil,…
From: Pharyngula
Well, this is an unexpected ploy. The flu epidemic of 1918 didn't kill people, it was all those cases of…
From: Pharyngula
Dear Daughter, It’s fall 2022 and a new school year has begun – first grade. More reading. More math. More…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
As fascism rises around the world, we're going to see a lot of bigotry and oppression justified in the name…
From: Oceanoxia
On 16 September 2022, 22 year old Jina Mahsa Amini was killed by the morality police in Tehran, Iran leading…
From: Pro-Science
I've been working on a couple posts about this general topic for a while now, and I'm hoping I'll have…
From: Oceanoxia
When you are in recovery, you are bound to encounter the topic of “resilience”. It’s a certain toughness – an…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Earlier this summer, the Supreme Court made another of their stupid decisions, in this taking a first step in gutting…
From: Pharyngula
It's peculiar. We're supposed to have a separation of church and state, but somehow we've ended up with not just…
From: Pharyngula
This is an old video, but given current events, I think it's worth sharing. Part of that is because the…
From: Oceanoxia
I seem to have constructed a memory from whole cloth. The internet is not backing me up on this, so…
From: Great American Satan
No Dr Oz today. There's an even worse guy running for office in Pennsylvania: Doug Mastriano wants to be governor,…
From: Pharyngula
I went through this strange period when I was a kid – probably around junior high – where I tried…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
About 95 million people (close to 25% of the US population) have got Covid so far. That is the official…
From: Mano Singham
You cannot possibly disagree.
From: Pharyngula
Herbert Spencer would be so proud. [caption id="attachment_68024" align="aligncenter" width="500"] SMBC[/caption] One quibble: evolution by natural selection isn't the fundamental…
From: Pharyngula
It was a busy morning, good thing I got in early today. I have too many spiders. I fed the…
From: Pharyngula
It's a listicle, of course, but it's written by an archaeologist, which is good, but she was the recipient of…
From: Pharyngula
This is an impressive microscope. It doesn't look like much, but this is the kind of instrument Leeuwenhoek used to…
From: Pharyngula
Prepping for my intro class today, we're wrapping up the unit on basic Mendelian genetics and a little more. The…
From: Pharyngula
It's just an innocent space rock, didn't do anyone any harm, but NASA is getting ready to practice its marksmanship…
From: Pharyngula
So I got a philosophy for the end of the world inspired by a Junji Ito comic, Hellstar Remina, in…
From: Great American Satan
I talk a lot about the need for us to clean up air pollution as part of our climate response,…
From: Oceanoxia
As you have no doubt heard, the Republican Party of the United States of America has taken to engaging in…
From: Oceanoxia
The current Republican party seems to have just one policy and that is to 'own the libs', whatever the cost…
From: Mano Singham
There are interesting questions in the population genetics and evolution of different human groups, and it would be nice if…
From: Pharyngula
As fascism rises around the world, we're going to see a lot of bigotry and oppression justified in the name…
From: Oceanoxia
I talk a lot about the need for us to clean up air pollution as part of our climate response,…
From: Oceanoxia
I wrote a few days ago about the total failure of Puerto Rico's privatized power grid under Hurricane Fiona. As…
From: Oceanoxia
On 16 September 2022, 22 year old Jina Mahsa Amini was killed by the morality police in Tehran, Iran leading…
From: Pro-Science
From a comment I wrote on WHTM, lightly edited for clarity absent its original context: So many people have announced…
From: Pervert Justice
I've been working on a couple posts about this general topic for a while now, and I'm hoping I'll have…
From: Oceanoxia
[caption id="attachment_67946" align="alignright" width="150"] Creep.[/caption] How did this guy get any attention at all? https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1572297054617219072 These quotes come from a…
From: Pharyngula
I'm exasperated with my local money-grubbing Democrats, but NOTHING, I mean NOTHING compares with the freaks on the Republican side.…
From: Pharyngula
Our incumbent governor is running for re-election against a raving loony, a guy who has announced that he would ban…
From: Pharyngula
Savannah Graziano was 15 years old when her father murdered her mother and kidnapped her. An amber alert went out,…
From: Pharyngula
As you have no doubt heard, the Republican Party of the United States of America has taken to engaging in…
From: Oceanoxia
This was from three weeks ago, soon after Liz Truss became prime minister, where he deplores the state of the…
From: Mano Singham
I am amused. Yet again, a tough-talking Texas pol disappears into the sunset in a cloud of dust, leaving a…
From: Pharyngula
I did not know much about Liz Truss who was elected as the new leader of the UK Conservative party,…
From: Mano Singham
The current Republican party seems to have just one policy and that is to 'own the libs', whatever the cost…
From: Mano Singham
The man is an embarrassment of failures. His latest? A right-leaning newspaper suggested it would be a good idea to…
From: Pharyngula
As fascism rises around the world, we're going to see a lot of bigotry and oppression justified in the name…
From: Oceanoxia