Oh shit, Rise of Skywalker is one week from today! Below are the OBJECTIVELY correct Star Wars rankings as determined…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
This is how I made the scabbard/storage sheath for the letter opener. [stderr] I cheated. Normally, what you'd do is…
From: Stderr
So, the Great American Satan alerted us here on FtB to the existence of a brief "Youtube Walkout". For the…
From: Impossible Me
My entry: Mmm, madeleines. These force me to remember how they flavour the tea, but the tea also flavours the…
From: Pervert Justice
Tomorrow is the general election in the UK where the Labour party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn have been subject…
From: Mano Singham
When I took on the blog full-time in September of 2018, I let my series about visiting Russia in September…
From: Affinity
When you're a blogger, you wind up collecting ideas and sitting them on a shelf, "use this one if you…
From: Stderr
Just in time for holiday shopping, Chytridoodles has a whole line of gear illustrated with a Chlamydomonas print: t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, cell…
From: Fierce Roller
Although it is missing the giant cleaner emerging out of the alley to gulp down the corpse & virus. Our…
From: Pharyngula
I'm a big fan of cooperative computer games, but I'm not inclined to join guilds (aside from the Fuel Rats,…
From: Stderr
How should a society decide which actions ought to be criminalized? Personally, I’m a proponent of the harm principle. John…
From: Andreas Avester
Travis Pangburn, as PZ has brought to local attention, is interested in orchestrating a "war of ideas". Yet, like the…
From: Pervert Justice
That's the best summary of Travis Pangburn ever. It comes from this exposé of the swarm of sock puppets Pangburn…
From: Pharyngula
Stop the presses! Great American Satan informs us that there is a union action to have a "don't look" strike…
From: Stderr
Travis Pangburn is back, baby. After his efforts as a lecture and debate promoter crashed and burned catastrophically, leaving many…
From: Pharyngula
Imagine you have a friend who wants to stick their tongue in a light socket. You tell them, "bad idea.…
From: Stderr
With a vengeance, even. https://twitter.com/NightmareFuelNF/status/1204087581706608640 It should never have gone away. Oh, wait. This guy is just responding to this…
From: Pharyngula
Something curious that I've noticed is that, as various atheist organizations implode in scandal and chaos, the percentage of "nones"…
From: Pharyngula
This is one of those Trump real estate deals: The Japanese Government buys an island and lets the US Navy…
From: Stderr
I think I've been on this rollercoaster before: David Silverman Suspended Pending Investigation Into Touching Incident. Silverman was accused by…
From: Pharyngula
Consider this scenario. ME: "Hey, thanks for coming over! If you're thirsty, I've got your choice of Pepsi, A&W Root…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Yesterday I wrote about Merriam-Webster announcing that it had chosen to make the non-binary singular personal pronoun 'they' its word…
From: Mano Singham
Some people object to saying that “trans rights are human rights,” the idea being that some group of people, namely…
From: Andreas Avester
[CW: depression, verbal abuse] I'd say getting email about one's first post is a good sign that was a good…
From: Impossible Me
This was announced by Miriam-Webster today. Merriam-Webster has named "they" its word of the year. The US dictionary also recently…
From: Mano Singham
India's corrupt and incompetent government and prime minister trying to enact new laws that do the polar opposite of what…
From: Intransitive
Merck (*) and the HIV initiative Prevention Access Campaign did a study on how well informed Millennials and GenZs are…
From: Intransitive
Response to Peter Wehner’s New York Times article, Christian Doomsayers Have Lost It https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/opinion/sunday/trump-christian-conservatives.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage This is a refreshing bit of…
From: Odgraphix
I've written in Pharyngula comments before about something called the Pseudocommando shooter type. These are the folks who get big…
From: Pervert Justice
“One-sided dichotomy” is a term I would like to coin to describe a common situation in public discourse. My first…
From: A Trivial Knot
The mountain of papers have been graded! The grades have all been posted on Canvas! The students can now put…
From: Pharyngula
Oh shit, Rise of Skywalker is one week from today! Below are the OBJECTIVELY correct Star Wars rankings as determined…
From: I Have Forgiven Jesus
I have a mob of slavering students with pitchforks and torches demanding that I finish grading their lab final so…
From: Pharyngula
By Reporter X Aliens at Palatine’s Rob Sherman UFO Base celebrated moments after the village board voted to allow the…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
My entry: Mmm, madeleines. These force me to remember how they flavour the tea, but the tea also flavours the…
From: Pervert Justice
I'm really enjoying the second of four days without youtube. I've been trying to write this post for months but…
From: Intransitive
I have to go pick up a colleague who is returning from a talk in California. It's -27°C outside. There…
From: Pharyngula
When I took on the blog full-time in September of 2018, I let my series about visiting Russia in September…
From: Affinity
You know what you did. Tuesday night went off without a hitch. Thank you.
From: Pervert Justice
This is the last week of the semester, and I have been buried in grading, nonstop. Term papers were due…
From: Pharyngula
India's corrupt and incompetent government and prime minister trying to enact new laws that do the polar opposite of what…
From: Intransitive
A Methodist church in California has set up an outdoor nativity scene for Christmas that has the potential to make…
From: Mano Singham
I grew up in an atheist family, in the atheist city. I’m close to being a lifelong atheist. In kindergarten…
From: Andreas Avester
He made the following remarks at a fundraiser last evening. US President Donald Trump told a pro-Israel conference Saturday night…
From: Mano Singham
Response to Peter Wehner’s New York Times article, Christian Doomsayers Have Lost It https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/opinion/sunday/trump-christian-conservatives.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage This is a refreshing bit of…
From: Odgraphix
I see what you did there. A new center at Liberty University is opening to combat the idea that, among…
From: Pharyngula
The UK's Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has leveled charges against the Labour party that it has a serious problem of…
From: Mano Singham
Some of you may recall the big Chick-fil-A controversy that emerged some years ago. The owners of this fast-food franchise…
From: Mano Singham
Here's an amusing video about what happens when we stop caring about giving a fact-based education to kids. Laugh away.…
From: Pharyngula
When it comes to placing restrictions on abortion, Ohio has the dubious honor of proposing the wildest ideas to the…
From: Mano Singham
Atlas Obscura has a new article by Sabrina Imbler, "Checking in on the Algae of a Brooklyn Reservoir with a…
From: Fierce Roller
When I took on the blog full-time in September of 2018, I let my series about visiting Russia in September…
From: Affinity
It's the Youtube Walkout! The 10th through 13th we're supposed to avoid watching youtube videos. They've dropped some fucking egregious…
From: Great American Satan
Which is why we found her lurking under our dining room table, where it's cozy and warm. Do you know…
From: Pharyngula
At the beginning of the term, I was constantly repeating the mantra, "your data is your data" to the students…
From: Pharyngula
You know, you have to love the look of joy on their faces when they open a surprise box. I…
From: Pharyngula
Beautiful, isn't it? It's an arctic lake, with methane boiling up out of the thawing permafrost. It's so scenic and…
From: Pharyngula
Have you heard of Nicolas Bourbaki? I hadn't but David Gunderman writes that "he made fundamental contributions to important mathematical…
From: Mano Singham
One thing I have absolutely been through the wringer over is mental health. I half wonder if it would somehow…
From: Impossible Me
I have not been advertising this aspect of my research, but I have been striving towards developing a Perfectly Spherical…
From: Pharyngula
I don't listen to Lizzo and rarely watch basketball (unless it's a college team playing a full court press), so…
From: Intransitive
One of the more bizarre developments on the right wing of US politics (and this saying a lot given how…
From: Mano Singham
YouTube has threatened to drop any channels that are not "commercially viable" in the future, which is grossly capitalist and…
From: Pharyngula
There's a YouTube Walkout going on from 12/10 to 12/13 to protest YouTube's changing their terms of service. Great American…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Yesterday I wrote about Merriam-Webster announcing that it had chosen to make the non-binary singular personal pronoun 'they' its word…
From: Mano Singham
So, the Great American Satan alerted us here on FtB to the existence of a brief "Youtube Walkout". For the…
From: Impossible Me
Tomorrow is the general election in the UK where the Labour party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn have been subject…
From: Mano Singham
Some people object to saying that “trans rights are human rights,” the idea being that some group of people, namely…
From: Andreas Avester
[CW: depression, verbal abuse] I'd say getting email about one's first post is a good sign that was a good…
From: Impossible Me
Lee Fang of The Intercept writes that US health industry lobbyists are just waiting for a Conservative victory on Thursday…
From: Mano Singham
Patriotism is a concept that many people think is a good thing but it just doesn't stand up under close…
From: Mano Singham
Unreasonable libs: "Wolf!" Reasonable centrist: "Yeah, you're right. He's definitely a wolf. But he hasn't even been inaugurated yet. Give…
From: Pervert Justice
How should a society decide which actions ought to be criminalized? Personally, I’m a proponent of the harm principle. John…
From: Andreas Avester
One of the more bizarre developments on the right wing of US politics (and this saying a lot given how…
From: Mano Singham
By Reporter X Aliens at Palatine’s Rob Sherman UFO Base celebrated moments after the village board voted to allow the…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Tomorrow is the general election in the UK where the Labour party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn have been subject…
From: Mano Singham
Stop the presses! Great American Satan informs us that there is a union action to have a "don't look" strike…
From: Stderr
The scandal surrounding Prince Andrew and his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein and the allegation made by Virginia Giuffre that when…
From: Mano Singham
Imagine you have a friend who wants to stick their tongue in a light socket. You tell them, "bad idea.…
From: Stderr
It's the Youtube Walkout! The 10th through 13th we're supposed to avoid watching youtube videos. They've dropped some fucking egregious…
From: Great American Satan