Had a pretty elaborate dream, nothing noteworthy about it except how well I could remember it at the moment I…
From: Life's a Gas
The Probability Broach, chapter 4 Win has found some enigmatic clues in Vaughn Meiss' office, but nothing conclusive. He goes…
From: Daylight Atheism
Had another dream about being a violent superhero and dealing with the futility of it. This time I was The…
From: Life's a Gas
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
I have talked to many creationists who, when asked for evidence that the universe was created by a god, tell…
From: Pharyngula
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
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
I'm in terrible shape, and one of my goals for this break is to improve that shape. I have gotten…
From: Pharyngula
This morning, I wished I could cry. I got seriously depressed instead. I do not remember getting frost in the…
From: Affinity
My wife forced me at trowel-point to work in the lawn this morning. We've got a big patch that was…
From: Pharyngula
I live in a small town, a town where very little changes from day to day. I walk downtown almost…
From: Pharyngula
I have evidence of my father's criminal past. I wonder if I carry Criminal Genes? [caption id="attachment_76448" align="aligncenter" width="500"] James…
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
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
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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
Burroughs ruined me. Reality, though, is a more magnificent desolation. [caption id="attachment_76469" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Phobos from the surface of Mars[/caption]…
From: Pharyngula
I've posted a new video, but I'm making it complicated to see. OK, I've put it on my Patreon account.…
From: Pharyngula
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the future of genetic medicine - which, after decades…
From: Daylight Atheism
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
My favorite encounters with dinosaurs are the ones that are incidental to my life. I was just out doing something…
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
Last week Cecilia Culver delivered a speech to her graduating class at George Washington University and she took the opportunity…
From: Mano Singham
If you're curious to know why Apple doesn't manufacture iPhones in the US, the NY Times has the answer. [caption…
From: Pharyngula
For whatever reason, the Trump gang has decided to attack research and higher education. One form this has taken is…
From: Mano Singham
As if one needed evidence that Trump and his coterie only view the rights of white people as worth being…
From: Mano Singham
(Every year at Case Western Reserve University where I used to work, the incoming class of students were assigned a…
From: Mano Singham
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
Last week Cecilia Culver delivered a speech to her graduating class at George Washington University and she took the opportunity…
From: Mano Singham
For whatever reason, the Trump gang has decided to attack research and higher education. One form this has taken is…
From: Mano Singham
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
As if one needed evidence that Trump and his coterie only view the rights of white people as worth being…
From: Mano Singham
There is something deeply, deeply wrong with the culture there, and it needs to be defeated. In world war two,…
From: Pharyngula
Awww. Some Trump apparatchiks are feeling uncomfortable. I have a source inside the Trump regime who feels, in their own…
From: Pharyngula
Back in December, there was a race for committee leadership in congress that exposed the flaws in our gerontocracy. Alexandria…
From: Pharyngula
(Every year at Case Western Reserve University where I used to work, the incoming class of students were assigned a…
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