It's really not Jazzlet's fault; it was just something that they said, which made me pick up a pretty small…
From: Stderr
SyFy has a brilliant piece about the feminism in Captain Marvel and how her antagonists' tactics recapitulate anti-feminist tropes. What…
From: Pervert Justice
I guess I'll be the first person to reference this prominently on the internet. It is really hard to find…
From: Great American Satan
I'm watching "Us" tonight. And I won't stop making nagging posts about it until everyone comments here that they've bought…
From: Great American Satan
Hokey and sentimental was my unexpected reaction to hearing Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Waters the other day. In…
From: Odgraphix
If you're familiar with Don Winslow's novel The Force [wc] it may feel as though The Seven Five [wc] is…
From: Stderr
The end of winter finally brought some birds into the garden that I'd been missing the whole time, since there…
From: Affinity
This True News Story missed the most important detail. After long eras of systemic racial discrimination by humanity, God has…
From: Pharyngula
When I tried to get tickets for "Us," I could only find 7 PM showings. I assumed the theaters were,…
From: Great American Satan
Our woods are a nature and water reserve which means that there is no commercial use of the wood. Trees…
From: Affinity
A few days ago, PZ Myers pointed to Atheist Day, a new annual event sponsored by Atheist Republic and a…
From: A Trivial Knot
He's back. The weird mastermind behind the Journal of Cosmology and Cosmology.com has created yet another fake journal, The Journal…
From: Pharyngula
I was sent a link to some pseudoscientific bullshit, and am finding the more I scratch at it, the deeper…
From: Pharyngula
SyFy has a brilliant piece about the feminism in Captain Marvel and how her antagonists' tactics recapitulate anti-feminist tropes. What…
From: Pervert Justice
Arthur Robinson is one of those classic American loons -- someone with enough real knowledge to be dangerous, who then…
From: Pharyngula
I'm sad to say that I don't care anymore. I got all these messages that 23 March 2019 is Atheist…
From: Pharyngula
I had a rough day today, after a couple of poor nights of fitful sleep, so I was mostly useless…
From: Pharyngula
Marcelo Gleiser has been awarded the Templeton Prize. When asked what he'd done to deserve it, his answer was his…
From: Pharyngula
Wow. I was listening to this video and thinking, "I've heard all this before -- these are the arguments against…
From: Pharyngula
That's rights, transfolks and boring people, it's another post about everyone's favorite lawsuit, Devin Nunes' US$250 million defamation complaint against…
From: Pervert Justice
SyFy has a brilliant piece about the feminism in Captain Marvel and how her antagonists' tactics recapitulate anti-feminist tropes. What…
From: Pervert Justice
Oy. There's a new paper out by Marissa Harrison (of Penn State) et. al. collected historical data on the crimes…
From: Pervert Justice
Remember that old thing? No? OK, quick summary: Parental reports (on social media) of friend clusters exhibiting signs of gender…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
This is a repost of an article I published in 2015 on The Asexual Agenda. It was originally written for…
From: A Trivial Knot
I have written before about Democratic congressman Dan Lipinski, easily one of the worst Democrats in Congress, who occupies a…
From: Mano Singham
cn: This was imported directly from my tumblr, and therefore has unsafe levels of tumblr politics. I feel bad just…
From: A Trivial Knot
The Minnesota house passed the ERA. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) has had a simple purpose since it was first…
From: Pharyngula
Here's an excellent video that includes clips from various interviews with famous people saying stupid, hateful things about trans people.…
From: Pharyngula
Alessandro Strumia was in the news earlier this fall -- he's the physicist who gave a workshop at CERN to…
From: Pharyngula
We seem to be in a cycle. Every time PZ Myers posts something about transgender people, the comment thread floods…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Iliana is working on becoming an Instagram Influencer.
From: Pharyngula
From time to time, we like to feature stories from our sister publications around the world. The following is from…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
So yeah, if you're wondering why I haven't updated this blog in a while, it's because I now blog about…
From: Bi Any Means
North Bergen High School put on Alien as their school play. I am kind of blown away -- amazing sets,…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_27012" align="alignnone" width="1200"] The first published photo of Jack on his daily walk. ©voyager, all rights reserved[/caption] Woo-Hoo! A…
From: Affinity
Tired: The Jordan B Peterson Official Merchandise Store: Lobster Capsule Collection. Wired: Lobsterfest.
From: Pharyngula
Earlier, I wrote an article on low emotionality, and I heard from a handful of readers with similar experiences. However,…
From: A Trivial Knot
Things are happening in Avalus' new aquarium. Let's join him to see what's up today. (Note: The last photo in this…
From: Affinity
Hokey and sentimental was my unexpected reaction to hearing Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Waters the other day. In…
From: Odgraphix
That's my granddaughter! Now I'm going to have to get Knut a spider toy, so he can keep up. A…
From: Pharyngula
According to the results of the most recent General Social Survey data, the number of people who described themselves as…
From: Mano Singham
If you met someone who introduced himself as Bob Shabanowitz and tried to guess his ethnicity, the chances are that…
From: Mano Singham
A few important things about the Christchurch terrorism might set it apart from previous incidents of a similar nature. Obviously…
From: Great American Satan
I got a message from an acquaintance in Sri Lanka forwarding a video that said that the BBC had reported…
From: Mano Singham
I just learned that the Art Institute of Seattle has closed. This is bad news -- I knew people who…
From: Pharyngula
The trailer for the six-episode TV mini-series Good Omens has been released. {AD} The series is based on the book…
From: Mano Singham
I have written before about the TV comedy The Good Place and now there is apparently another one called Miracle…
From: Mano Singham
Australian cardinal George Pell, one of the most powerful men in the Vatican, was found guilty of child sexual abuse…
From: Mano Singham
An evangelical pastor in South Africa clearly felt that the usual tricks to persuade people that their god was acting…
From: Mano Singham
George Will is what passes for an intelligent man on the conservative side, I suppose, but wow, but religion twists…
From: Pharyngula
Folks, it's been fun. I feel like I had a pretty good run as a scientist. I met some amazing…
From: Fierce Roller
P-values are back in the news. Nature published an article, signed by 800 scientists, calling for an end to the…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Let's start the morning with something cheery. Here's an innocent little ciliate swimming about and then rupturing…organelles and cytoplasm spewing…
From: Pharyngula
Oy. There's a new paper out by Marissa Harrison (of Penn State) et. al. collected historical data on the crimes…
From: Pervert Justice
The Cambrian explosion is the name given to the discovery of a vast range of fossils of organisms that existed…
From: Mano Singham
(My review of the above book just appeared in the March 2019 issue of the American Journal of Physics (vol.…
From: Mano Singham
It seems to be a universal rule: every ecosystem has its parasites. Wherever there is money being spent or media…
From: Fierce Roller
We all have in our minds short histories of how knowledge grew and a popular one is that there was…
From: Mano Singham
I'm getting together with some nerds, Jackson Wheat, Phrenomythic, and ScientistMel, to talk about the challenges of communicating science on…
From: Pharyngula
This is funny, but I have never seen a bolas spider. Have you? They're on the checklist of Minnesota spiders,…
From: Pharyngula
The recent scandal about how rich people were bribing and cheating on tests to get their children into the colleges…
From: Mano Singham
One of the questions that many people ask themselves is how it is that so many people buy into what…
From: Mano Singham
I have written many times before about how the US prison system imposes needlessly cruel conditions on those unfortunate enough…
From: Mano Singham
I came across this article about Selene Saavedra Roman, a young woman who worked as a flight attendant for the…
From: Mano Singham
I've always thought the Southern Poverty Law Center was one of the good guys, fighting against race hatred and taking…
From: Pharyngula
I don't know if you've heard of it, but Cambridge is one of those prestigious "elite" universities, and sometimes they…
From: Pharyngula
If you met someone who introduced himself as Bob Shabanowitz and tried to guess his ethnicity, the chances are that…
From: Mano Singham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsxtImDVMig I'm home today, with the Little One having caught a stomach bug and me not being sure if I…
From: Affinity
But this is just a little too on-the-nose. Warning that users who call for the suspension of bigoted accounts might…
From: Pharyngula
I have written before about Democratic congressman Dan Lipinski, easily one of the worst Democrats in Congress, who occupies a…
From: Mano Singham
My telephones (cell and land line) have become effectively useless, thanks to the ridiculous number of robo-calls that I get.…
From: Stderr
I have not been following the details reported in the media of the Mueller investigation, finding it to be largely…
From: Mano Singham
The recent scandal about how rich people were bribing and cheating on tests to get their children into the colleges…
From: Mano Singham
One of the questions that many people ask themselves is how it is that so many people buy into what…
From: Mano Singham
Last weekend, someone slashed three tires on Bolingbrook Village Trustee candidate Maripat Oliver’s car. Her car was the only one…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
From time to time, we like to feature stories from our sister publications around the world. The following is from…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
That the US is overtly involved in so many wars and military actions around the world is well known, though…
From: Mano Singham
Remember Uri Geller? The guy who claims to bend spoons with his mind but failed miserably when confronted with a…
From: Mano Singham
I have written many times before about how the US prison system imposes needlessly cruel conditions on those unfortunate enough…
From: Mano Singham
If you look at the laws passed in the United States from the very beginning of the American republic down…
From: Stderr