I refuse to believe anything new will come of this. I suspect it's going to be nothing but a remarketing…
From: Pharyngula
Let me encourage you to do something odd. I'm 57 now and I sometimes forget things. We tend towards dementia…
From: Stderr
Can't he come up with good ideas on his own? [caption id="attachment_55944" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Lio[/caption]
From: Pharyngula
In testifying before Congress. he comedian who is the host of the informative show Patriot Act clearly had done his…
From: Mano Singham
I couldn't resist. Apparently "Seax" is pronounced "Sex". This was an experiment in hammer-shaping and leaving the blade spine rough.…
From: Stderr
I posted about a knife I made for one of my mentors, where I cracked the tip trying to straighten…
From: Stderr
Seth Meyers looks at the latest example of Donald Trump's deep-seated racism and also his relationship with John Bolton. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
Earlier this week I told you about our trip to the Sagrada Familia and that we wanted to see it…
From: Affinity
When I first moved up to the farm, the internet options were satellite or dial-up. I tried satellite but it…
From: Stderr
He examines all the arguments traditionally given in favor of it and finds them unconvincing, and concludes that the benefits…
From: Mano Singham
Let me encourage you to do something odd. I'm 57 now and I sometimes forget things. We tend towards dementia…
From: Stderr
Why does it always come down to lashing out to do harm to others? It's another lawsuit by a man…
From: Pharyngula
Why, just look at the Brainerd school board. Sue Kern even made president! During a recent meeting of the board,…
From: Pharyngula
After that last post, I realized there is another problem I have with doing debates with creationists. For a proper…
From: Pharyngula
Ken Ham is writing about spiders and evolution, and my first thought was ha ha, that's funny, he's talking about…
From: Pharyngula
We should face the facts: New Atheism is dead. Time for a post-mortem. New Atheism itself was a rather slight…
From: Pharyngula
It comes from Philip Senter, in a book reviewed by Darren Naish. The early chapters of this book evaluate and…
From: Pharyngula
Today is the day when Americans pause to gloat over the appalling revenge they took in return for 2,977 people…
From: Stderr
I've mentioned Al Seckel before -- he was a self-serving fraud who slithered his way into the skeptic community, taking…
From: Pharyngula
[Warning: Death, Violence, Blood] US politicians speak about "The Rule of Law" as though it's a valuable and important thing…
From: Stderr
It's because toxic masculinity is so ingrained in the culture that the staid ol' NY Times can publicly say that…
From: Pharyngula
In 2012, 16 year old Jorge Saavedra stabbed Dylan Nuno between eight and twelve times, killing him, after suffering years…
From: Intransitive
Moral quandries suck. There's a 20-something lesbian TERF in the UK who is terminally ill. I have never contacted her…
From: Intransitive
Victoria Batemen, director of studies, fellow and college lecturer in economics at Gonville and Caius College at the University of…
From: Mano Singham
"Toxic masculinity" refers to harmful forms of masculine expression, such as violence, aggression, aloofness, and the policing of other men's…
From: A Trivial Knot
At the recent climate change town hall series put on by CNN, Bernie Sanders got asked a question about overpopulation…
From: Oceanoxia
This is quite possibly one of the more horrifying sentences I've read online lately. Since my recent lunch with my…
From: Pharyngula
It has become fairly common to hear that some of the men (and it is usually men) who furiously denounce…
From: Mano Singham
World Sexual Health Day is a World Health Organization initiative for educating people about sexual health and change attitudes. Its…
From: Intransitive
It looks like it was a hoot. https://twitter.com/classiclib3ral/status/1167853414056939520 Best reply to that: https://twitter.com/GretchenKoch/status/1167854657638678528
From: Pharyngula
Trumplethinskin has said the FDA should ban "flavoured" vaping products. His "ban", however, is only against flavoured nicotine packs, not vaping…
From: Intransitive
By Reporter X [caption id="attachment_866" align="alignleft" width="228"] File photo of Ryan Huffman[/caption] [caption id="attachment_865" align="alignright" width="300"] File photo of Maggie…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Martin Weitzman was a highly successful economist who had a distinguished academic career at the most prestigious universities and had…
From: Mano Singham
What should greet my eyes upon looking into the abyss of Twitter this morning but a chittering mob of angry…
From: Pharyngula
I find Bill Maher unwatchable, for many reasons, but James Corden managed to get through one of those monologs where…
From: Pharyngula
Remember that strange claim by Ohio State University, excuse me, The Ohio State University, to trademark the word 'The' that…
From: Mano Singham
Did you know Jeffrey Epstein had a blog? You can still reach it via the wayback machine. It's an odd…
From: Pharyngula
I should call the world's attention to the fact that I have a new grand-niece, Aria, daughter of Matthew and…
From: Pharyngula
Announcement: I'm taking a blogging break. I'm doing a thing for the next two months, and I'll be around but…
From: A Trivial Knot
Monopoly is the worst game ever, bar none. It's only fun playing against a computer because you can't humiliate a…
From: Intransitive
Mid-Autumn Festival is known by several names across several Asian countries. Taiwan often calls it Moon Festival, both Koreas call…
From: Intransitive
In an interesting and informative profile of Tulsi Gabbard, Kerry Howley looks at her very unusual childhood and family that…
From: Mano Singham
Jerry Falwell was an evangelical preacher and the founder of Liberty University, a college that expects its students to abide…
From: Mano Singham
Petty hypo-christians and their "christian piety". As I've said elsewhere, the more publicly prudish, the more privately prurient. When stories…
From: Intransitive
Apparently yet another new book is out that tries to make the scientific case for god's existence. According to the…
From: Mano Singham
Here's some smug sanctimonious Christianity for you, all inflicted on a helpless baby. On Wednesday, Martina Obi-Uzom was found guilty…
From: Pharyngula
Back in the day, the church could send its minions forth to rend and suppress books, shred their authors, and…
From: Stderr
It has become fairly common to hear that some of the men (and it is usually men) who furiously denounce…
From: Mano Singham
This five-episode mini-series on Netflix is based on a book of the same name by reporter Jeff Sharlet. It is…
From: Mano Singham
Ryan Bell, national organizing manager for the Secular Student Alliance, writes in The Humanist magazine that while young people are…
From: Mano Singham
I made a stop to check on that lovely Argiope at the local Subway…and she was gone! I was very…
From: Pharyngula
When I was in graduate school, magician James Randi gave a performance for the university and then he gave another…
From: Mano Singham
Royal Museums Greenwich has announced their Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2019 winners, and some of the photos are…
From: Intransitive
Hey! Hey, you! The University of Minnesota Morris is offering employment to an ecologist! Apply now! (Special attention will be…
From: Pharyngula
After I was done protesting yesterday (lie: we're never done protesting), it was late, it had been a long day,…
From: Pharyngula
Behold, the brave little redback! It has taken down a massive foe, a mouse many times its size, requiring multiple…
From: Pharyngula
Grrr. The CBC got me excited with a headline about "the granddaddy of spiders". It's not a spider. It's a…
From: Pharyngula
The Chronicle of Higher Education has now noticed Caleb Harper's "Food Computer". It's a long article, and a good chunk…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_6448" align="aligncenter" width="538"] Dr. Kirk delivering the final talk at the 2007 Volvox Symposium at Washington University, an event…
From: Fierce Roller
Well, not specifically Buckingham Palace, though… [caption id="attachment_55892" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Original by Hannah Hillam[/caption] I go into some ramshackle old…
From: Pharyngula
I was part of our local protest against the unmitigated evil of ICE yesterday. Several people spoke out with testimonials…
From: Pharyngula
Here is another post about the insanity of the US health system, a post that will be utterly incomprehensible to…
From: Mano Singham
Poor Milo Yiannopoulos is struggling. He's been whining on the few social media sites left to him that he's not…
From: Pharyngula
Victoria Batemen, director of studies, fellow and college lecturer in economics at Gonville and Caius College at the University of…
From: Mano Singham
Mainstream media journalists and editors like to pride themselves on their 'political neutrality', that they do not take sides. Some…
From: Mano Singham
At the recent climate change town hall series put on by CNN, Bernie Sanders got asked a question about overpopulation…
From: Oceanoxia
In The 1619 Project of the New York Times that I wrote about earlier, the opening piece that frames the…
From: Mano Singham
When the modern history of the USA is told, it often begins with ships arriving here, such as Christopher Columbus…
From: Mano Singham
I discussed in an earlier post how this newspaper's 'Fact Checker' section showed an egregious example of deception in giving…
From: Mano Singham
We know that the mainstream media, even so-called 'liberal' ones, tend to be strongly supportive of the status quo and…
From: Mano Singham
When one government does something that displeases another, the latter government usually publicly signals its displeasure by announcing that it…
From: Mano Singham
As the UK prime minister Boris Johnson pushes for a no-deal Brexit will lying about making progress at arriving at…
From: Mano Singham
MIT seems to be having a bad day week month year, and new horrors keep tumbling out all the time.…
From: Pharyngula
When I was in graduate school, magician James Randi gave a performance for the university and then he gave another…
From: Mano Singham
Yemen was one of many nations that threw off oppressive governments during the Arab Spring of 2011. The slim sunni…
From: Intransitive
WOOOOOOOOOOOO California just outlawed private prisons! Some are talking about how this affects ICE detention centers, and sure that's important,…
From: Great American Satan
In testifying before Congress. he comedian who is the host of the informative show Patriot Act clearly had done his…
From: Mano Singham
In an article by Kerry Howley that looks into Tulsi Gabbard's background, I came across this passage. The most obvious…
From: Mano Singham
By Reporter X [caption id="attachment_866" align="alignleft" width="228"] File photo of Ryan Huffman[/caption] [caption id="attachment_865" align="alignright" width="300"] File photo of Maggie…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
The scandal over the effort by MIT to keep secret that they were getting money from Jeffrey Epstein even after…
From: Mano Singham