OK, at some point in life, we need to talk about Ludacris... I kid, I kid. Nobody needs to talk…
From: Life's a Gas
The Probability Broach, chapter 4 As part of his investigation into Vaughn Meiss' murder, Win Bear wants to examine his…
From: Daylight Atheism
see the post before this if you want to see how the RP by post is going, still in progress…
From: Life's a Gas
In the 2023 film Oppenheimer, during the Manhattan project to develop the nuclear bomb, one of the concerns was whether…
From: Mano Singham
You can still join the RP by comment, open for two more players. Catch up from the beginning here, or…
From: Life's a Gas
Back in 2017, I designed the Cube Tessellation. It's one that I have shown off here on multiple occasions. I…
From: A Trivial Knot
My earliest school experiences were either preschool, kindergarten, or very early grades. I don't remember which or much about them,…
From: Life's a Gas
Still writing about the earliest epoch of my childhood, in mid-California suburbs. Now, I don't remember having seen Karate Kid…
From: Life's a Gas
I had a dream last night with nothing remarkable about it, ultimately. I've worked as a security guard pretty often,…
From: Life's a Gas
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From: Mano Singham
Jeanson, the creationist who got a Ph.D. to be better able to pretend to be a real scientist, is whining…
From: Pharyngula
I sat through the whole debate last night, which was supposed to address the premise that "The hominin fossil record…
From: Pharyngula
Some of you probably recall the legendarily terrible debate I had with Jerry Bergman years ago. You're in luck! Bergman…
From: Pharyngula
I fucking detest IFLScience. If you're unfamiliar with it, it started as a Facebook page, "I Fucking Love Science," that…
From: Pharyngula
Great! Except… [caption id="attachment_76411" align="aligncenter" width="445"] SMBC[/caption] I reject "Darwinism". I didn't ooze out of a Darwinian slurry. No priest…
From: Pharyngula
I wouldn't normally quote the odious Matt Walsh, but I was amused that he was taking umbrage at a new…
From: Pharyngula
This doesn't sound like my childhood swimmin' hole. “Swimming and wading are not allowed due to high bacteria levels,” the…
From: Pharyngula
A plea for moderation in the face of fanaticism: [caption id="attachment_76381" align="aligncenter" width="500"] You don't have to be that gung-ho…
From: Pharyngula
Or anywhere else off planet for that matter. Jennifer Ouellette has an enlightening interview with Adam Becker, the author of…
From: Pharyngula
Pope Leo XIV is a trans man. [caption id="attachment_76357" align="aligncenter" width="500"] X, of course.[/caption] You don't doubt this conclusion, do…
From: Pharyngula
In a basketball game between two professional teams in the WNBA, the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky, Caitlin Clark…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_76402" align="alignright" width="150"] Pete Hegseth says transgender people "lack warrior ethos, are liars, lack integrity, are not humble, are…
From: Pharyngula
Hey, what's the deal with the gay antics out here? Lookit that guy up on the stage, kissin' the other…
From: Life's a Gas
Via Pharyngula, I saw an excellent analysis by Rebecca Watson (see below) about a new book coming out that is…
From: Mano Singham
David Futrelle has brought back We Hunted the Mammoth! Go read it! The latest post is about JK Rowling and…
From: Pharyngula
Lil' question for the scientists and science communicators and defenders of liberty who thought woke moral scolds were impinging so…
From: Life's a Gas
[caption id="attachment_50285" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Copyright: Netflix[/caption] After hearing all about it, I watched the Netflix mini series. It was hyped…
From: Affinity
Russell Brand is a British media personality who started out as a standup comedian before branching out into other fields.…
From: Mano Singham
My union talked me into writing to my representatives thru a web form, and the responses have trickled in. Clearly…
From: Life's a Gas
[caption id="attachment_76082" align="alignright" width="100"] As everyone knows, it's all about the size of the palps[/caption] The creationists (and a few…
From: Pharyngula
The raspberries that grow around different places in my garden and behind my hedge are two-year varieties. First year shoots…
From: Affinity
One of the worst things that can happen to a tortoise is to get flipped on its back. See what…
From: Mano Singham
This post will be a bit of a downer, I am afraid. Like every spring, it is a bit nerve-wrecking…
From: Affinity
Sorry if this is obnoxious, but I have some rich people thoughts. I think a lot about retiring early. I…
From: A Trivial Knot
The 2025 graduating class in biology at the University of Minnesota Morris:
From: Pharyngula
I had big plans for today. I was going to make a day trip to do some spider collecting --…
From: Pharyngula
I guess I'll try revive my long-neglected YouTube channel. Transcript below the fold. I'm free! It's the end of the…
From: Pharyngula
I am so tired of super hero movies, but they keep drawing me back in. I'm not going to be…
From: Pharyngula
News incoming! I've been a regular columnist for OnlySky since 2022. Originally conceived as a news and opinion site for…
From: Daylight Atheism
Mary has gardening plans. She has taken over the sun room and filled it with seedlings. We're growing lots of…
From: Pharyngula
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From: Mano Singham
Like pretty much everyone who has even the smallest presence online, I receive spam email offering me all kinds of…
From: Mano Singham
My 1000th post on this blog network was queued to be a birdpost about an LBB. Observe it later today. …
From: Life's a Gas
I have not yet seen the new thriller film Conclave (the word comes from the Latin cum clave, meaning "with…
From: Mano Singham
Pope Francis has died, Vatican says Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, has died,…
From: Pro-Science
Russell Brand is a British media personality who started out as a standup comedian before branching out into other fields.…
From: Mano Singham
My union talked me into writing to my representatives thru a web form, and the responses have trickled in. Clearly…
From: Life's a Gas
You heard about all the businesses capitulating to the fresh fashy vibes of the new ameriKKKa? Tossing diversity initiatives, LGBTetc…
From: Life's a Gas
Should I call them suras? My emerging personal religion has disparate influences, which could be read as holy texts, and…
From: Life's a Gas
Shortly after we moved into our condo, my husband found a little plastic figurine of St. Joseph buried in our…
From: Life's a Gas
We're not squirrel haters in this household, but perhaps we should be. We have an outdoor storage closet in need…
From: Life's a Gas
Get out there and celebrate bees! I'd like to. I tried. But right now we're drowning in near constant rain…
From: Pharyngula
I don't remember this well enough to be 100% on which egret I saw, but it was a cool encounter. …
From: Life's a Gas
You can still join the RP by comment, open for two more players. Catch up from the beginning here, just…
From: Life's a Gas
Creationists have been going on and on about a dinosaur living in the Congo, called mokele-mbembe (IFLScience also has articles…
From: Pharyngula
I don't get mockingbirds where I live, so this is, once again, a bird I saw on vacation. In Kansas. …
From: Life's a Gas
In the 2023 film Oppenheimer, during the Manhattan project to develop the nuclear bomb, one of the concerns was whether…
From: Mano Singham
I saw the rising tide of belligerent white nationalism coming, and knew I had to revise how I teach genetics.…
From: Pharyngula
And it tolled for 9 days! Climate change is increasingly predisposing polar regions to large landslides. Tsunamigenic landslides have occurred…
From: Pharyngula
Uh-oh. The lawyers have been deployed. They're trying to parse the wording of the Endangered Species Act to legalize habitat…
From: Pharyngula
In a basketball game between two professional teams in the WNBA, the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky, Caitlin Clark…
From: Mano Singham
In Trump's America, no one is safe from government harassment and abuse. As we have seen, anyone can be picked…
From: Mano Singham
In the previous post, I wrote about the Trump gang's efforts to quickly deport large numbers of Venezuelans using the…
From: Mano Singham
Price gouging of US consumers by drug companies so that they can make enormous profits off patients so that they…
From: Mano Singham
Finally, after being kidnapped during daylight hours in a public street near Tufts University where she was a graduate student…
From: Mano Singham
Bikes are great, there's no doubt about it. They allow you to move relatively quickly with ease and are great…
From: Affinity
Via Pharyngula, I saw an excellent analysis by Rebecca Watson (see below) about a new book coming out that is…
From: Mano Singham
It has become clear that the Trump gang's plan is to summarily detain and deport people before they have had…
From: Mano Singham
After the US Supreme Court said that the Trump administration needed to facilitate Kilmar Ábrego García's release from a prison…
From: Mano Singham
It is clear that the Trump gang is going after foreign students by revoking their student visas willy-nilly for the…
From: Mano Singham
Two couples who are friends of mine are traveling separately to Europe over the summer. Each couple consists of one…
From: Mano Singham
The person who has been appointed to oversee immigration in this country is a world-class moron, and is obviously unfit…
From: Pharyngula
In a basketball game between two professional teams in the WNBA, the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky, Caitlin Clark…
From: Mano Singham
And then they came for the bookstores. As usual, Texas Republicans lead the way in oppression and ignorance. A bill…
From: Pharyngula
In Trump's America, no one is safe from government harassment and abuse. As we have seen, anyone can be picked…
From: Mano Singham
Obama should have done it. Biden should have done it. In Clinton's time this would have been a little harder…
From: Life's a Gas
In the previous post, I wrote about the Trump gang's efforts to quickly deport large numbers of Venezuelans using the…
From: Mano Singham
The Trump gang, in its feverish determination to deport as many people as possible, has been running roughshod over constitutional…
From: Mano Singham
In the 2023 film Oppenheimer, during the Manhattan project to develop the nuclear bomb, one of the concerns was whether…
From: Mano Singham
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the future of dying, and whether we should be…
From: Daylight Atheism