Before my big end-of-year spate of travel started, I did some forge-welding and made a few pieces of bar-stock. One…
From: Stderr
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From: Affinity
Yesterday we went to the Natural History Museum in Washington, DC! Is there some way I can make "going to…
From: Stderr
Whose hoods these are, I think I know. The mall need not reject them, though Their money is still welcome…
From: Pervert Justice
He pays another visit to Stephen Colbert's show. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
I'll be giving a talk at the Fellowship of Freethought Dallas gathering this month: The Creative Skeptic: Or, How to…
From: Freethinking Ahead
From Kreator come these wonderful images of penguins in the wild, the Punta Tombo Provincial Reserve, home of the largest…
From: Affinity
Post vises are popular with blacksmiths because they can clamp incredibly strongly and the ajax-style threading allows them to be…
From: Stderr
I sent the following cartoon to my daughters because this exactly describes the kind of thing I would do to…
From: Mano Singham
It was pretty funny. If you can't see the embedded video, go here. {AD}
From: Mano Singham
Don Lemon recently had a conversation with CNN’s Chris Cuomo about the question of right and wrong https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/cnns-don-lemon-explains-rethink-friendships-politics/ . On…
From: Odgraphix
While the murder of Jamal Khashoggi brought more attention to Saudi Arabia, it’s not the only country where writers are…
From: Bi Any Means
In the progressive splinter of the atheoskeptisphere, there are some people that are really smart, some people that are really…
From: Great American Satan
Pangburn (Pangburnt, am I right?) Philosophy has officially thrown in the towel. Here's their final statement: Who is to blame?…
From: Pharyngula
Pangburn Philosophy, you know, that guy who has been putting on talks all over the place featuring alt-right heroes, was…
From: Pharyngula
You accuse one skeptic of rape, and next thing you know you're the guy who'll accuse anyone of rape. I…
From: Pharyngula
Sorry, buckos, it's another comment on Jordan Peterson. But I think he's losing it. He's on a lengthy world tour…
From: Pharyngula
In a recent posting I hypothesized that the voting machines in Georgia have been allowed to remain deliberately bad. [stderr]…
From: Stderr
Jordan Peterson was asked to write a foreword for a new release of The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It…
From: Pharyngula
I'm going to have to jump through a few hoops to vote, because I have an unexpected trip to Boston…
From: Stderr
I don't do enough ace blogging around here. I zipped right through Asexual Awareness Week without saying a thing! But…
From: A Trivial Knot
Ross Douthat has a theory, to which I reply: Oh, dear. Before we get to that, there's a great scene…
From: Pervert Justice
"Why are young people having so little sex?" asks the title of a new article in The Atlantic. The article…
From: A Trivial Knot
Last Tuesday’s midterm election was a watershed moment for many LGBTQ+ people running for office. The winners from the so-called…
From: Bi Any Means
One of the most encouraging signs on the social issues front is that while businesses are doing extremely well with…
From: Mano Singham
Kim Davis is the rancid homophobic clerk of a county in Kentucky who shot to fame because of her refusal…
From: Mano Singham
Since the shooter who caused the deaths of two people at a yoga studio killed himself, it is going to…
From: Mano Singham
Well, this Wednesday there was a particularly rough fight at my school, and while this one escalated rather a lot,…
From: Affinity
:sigh:
From: Pervert Justice
I thought this article by Marina Koren was very insightful. I was unaware of some of the stuff she brings…
From: Pharyngula
He finally crossed a line: Maher finally sneered at something white men like, and the outrage has started to bubble…
From: Pharyngula
This performance by Eric Chien was enough to win him the FISM Grand Prix at an event held in Hong…
From: Mano Singham
On a national exam for year 13 students in New Zealand (which is the equivalent of high school seniors in…
From: Mano Singham
Good. Here's another article exposing the facile shallowness of the "debate me" crowd. A famous linguist once said that of…
From: Pharyngula
Every one of them.
From: Pharyngula
The last two years have coarsened me. I read this story of the demise of a chimpanzee leader, and realized…
From: Pharyngula
This story has received widespread coverage but I felt that I had to comment on it because these kinds of…
From: Mano Singham
The decree is signed and before a judge. He has promised to sign it next week. Thus ends over a…
Ohio has developed a reputation for producing grisly serial killers and psychopaths. Jeffrey Dahmer is perhaps the poster child for…
From: Mano Singham
While the murder of Jamal Khashoggi brought more attention to Saudi Arabia, it’s not the only country where writers are…
From: Bi Any Means
Don Lemon recently had a conversation with CNN’s Chris Cuomo about the question of right and wrong https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/cnns-don-lemon-explains-rethink-friendships-politics/ . On…
From: Odgraphix
While the murder of Jamal Khashoggi brought more attention to Saudi Arabia, it’s not the only country where writers are…
From: Bi Any Means
I've mentioned WEIRD on this blog before. For those who haven't heard, the basic idea is that college students in…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
I came across an astonishing but little reported item about the most recent mass murder that took place in California…
From: Mano Singham
The laws in Pakistan against blasphemy are an absolute disgrace. They are so expansive and ambiguous that people can use…
From: Mano Singham
I have referred several times to the weird book of Revelation in the Bible, particularly how it has become the…
From: Mano Singham
The Cut has an article about the traumatizing and manipulative world of evangelical haunted houses, replete with scenes of mass shootings, abortion,…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
Not that we should be surprised since religious zealots exist in every country and in every religion. In New Zealand,…
From: Mano Singham
The good news is that Ireland has voted to remove the crime of blasphemy from its constitution, with young people…
From: Mano Singham
The disciples of Pythagoras had an implicit faith in their Master's doctrine: "HE HAS SAID IT!" was for them the…
From: Stderr
There's a long list of individuals and corporations who understood the reality and dangers of climate change, and chose to…
From: Oceanoxia
Joost Vles writes about a subject that I have long had an interest in and that is queuing theory. I…
From: Mano Singham
Clingfish and Friday Harbor labs. Awww, it's been decades since I visited FHL.
From: Pharyngula
I'm just ruined for some things. Here's this article that's smack dab in my wheelhouse: Grow Smart and Die Young:…
From: Pharyngula
Researchers in Stephen Miller's lab at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County have successfully used CRISPR/Cas9 to knock out several…
From: Fierce Roller
Ross Douthat has a theory, to which I reply: Oh, dear. Before we get to that, there's a great scene…
From: Pervert Justice
Today was cricket-feeding day. I am still learning things, and one of the things I have learned is that I…
From: Pharyngula
You are more closely related to a mushroom than a kelp is to a plant. It's strange to think about,…
From: Fierce Roller
As promised threatened, I took some photos of spider poop this morning. It's surprisingly colorful! But then, these are from…
From: Pharyngula
I got an email from a science teacher in India. This is the internet being what we thought it would…
From: Fierce Roller
Whose hoods these are, I think I know. The mall need not reject them, though Their money is still welcome…
From: Pervert Justice
The decree is signed and before a judge. He has promised to sign it next week. Thus ends over a…
Ross Douthat has a theory, to which I reply: Oh, dear. Before we get to that, there's a great scene…
From: Pervert Justice
I wrote before how I stumbled across the strange story of Clarence King (1842-1901), the first director of the US…
From: Mano Singham
I had no idea. We have Charles' five assertions. We now conduct an empirical investigation, examining all the individuals in…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Dammit. The racist social media site found a new sugar daddy willing to host their hate. In case you were…
From: Pharyngula
Content Warnings: Anti-semitism, Mass murder, Racist terrorism. A creepy antisemite killed some people the other day, in the usual way.…
From: Great American Satan
Friend of FtB Ed Brayton is trying to help a victim of domestic violence and her 3 year old child…
From: Pervert Justice
Amanda Marcotte has an interesting piece where she says that the recent Megyn Kelly episode explodes the common myth that…
From: Mano Singham
I have never watched Fox News when I was in USA, and of course I have no incentive to watch…
From: Affinity
These are my recollections of a life behind the iron curtain. I do not aim to give perfect and objective…
From: Affinity
There's a long list of individuals and corporations who understood the reality and dangers of climate change, and chose to…
From: Oceanoxia
Don Lemon recently had a conversation with CNN’s Chris Cuomo about the question of right and wrong https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/cnns-don-lemon-explains-rethink-friendships-politics/ . On…
From: Odgraphix
In Mississippi, a run-off election is scheduled for November 27 since no candidate obtained the required 50% of the vote.…
From: Mano Singham
As yet another sign of the blue wave, it looks likely that Orange County in California, long a stronghold of…
From: Mano Singham
Ohio is becoming notorious not just for producing horrific murder cases, it also leads the way in how gerrymandering produces…
From: Mano Singham
I have written before about the Byzantine political intrigues in Sri Lanka that has led to political turmoil. A measure…
From: Mano Singham
I wrote yesterday about how the incumbent Republican for Maine's 2nd district Bruce Poliquin sued to stop the second and…
From: Mano Singham
Women! In shades of light brown! Invading congress! With plans! They might have made Rupert Murdoch cry with their rude…
From: Pharyngula
Mehdi Hasan shows how in this interview with Steve Rogers, a Trump advisor for his 2020 campaign. Hey US media…
From: Mano Singham