The Probability Broach, chapter 14 In the last chapter, Win received some bad news. The explosion that hurled him into…
From: Daylight Atheism
Remember paper fortune tellers? It's a basic piece of origami schoolkids have made since who knows when. You put your…
From: Life's a Gas
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From: Life's a Gas
[UPDATE: Arizona senator Ruben Gallego says that he thinks Trump is literally insane and that "Everyone needs to stop pretending…
From: Mano Singham
Less than two weeks to go until the release of Revenge of the Phantom Press: A Bolingbrook Babbler Story. You…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
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From: Mano Singham
I had a dream that was very sensible. No illogic or nonsense, just a pretty standard stress plot. If I…
From: Life's a Gas
The Probability Broach, chapter 13 Deejay and Ooloorie, the human and dolphin (respectively) scientists who built the Probability Broach, fill…
From: Daylight Atheism
I made a playlist on yewchoob. When I say "we dem boyz" I don't mean to misgender myself. I was…
From: Life's a Gas
I feel I should come out of the closet on this, because visibility is important. Now I don't routinely bang…
From: Life's a Gas
IMPORTANT CHANGE: the article was not written by Marc Siegel, but by someone named Michael Guillén. I was fooled by…
From: Pharyngula
There is a huckster named Skyler Chan who is raising money from the tech bros in Silicon Valley to build…
From: Pharyngula
I remember this old battered paperback that was passed around my father's family -- I think it was my uncle…
From: Pharyngula
I used to think the BBC was a pretty good network, too. I'm still right about Robin, but I'm proven…
From: Pharyngula
Too on-the-nose? I don't think so. Lysenko was put in charge of Soviet agriculture after declaring that Mendelian genetics was…
From: Pharyngula
In various discussions about "what do we do with Venezuela?" we should not ignore that the people asking the question…
From: Stderr
The answer is a lot simpler than Nathaniel Jeanson thinks. It's because creationism is bullshit. The gentleman to the left…
From: Pharyngula
Nobody should be surprised by this: Today (1/1/26) the Kentucky Department for Public Health announced that an unvaccinated, out-of-state individual…
From: Pharyngula
"Under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of…
From: Daylight Atheism
‘Deciphering the Gospels’, by R. G. Price, argues the case for Jesus mythicism, which is the view that Jesus never…
From: Geeky Humanist
What the internet and the latest forms of AI have revealed is that many people harbor the ugliest of impulses.…
From: Mano Singham
I recently discovered I'm missing an important piece of gaming history on my bookshelves. Once upon a time, Palladium Books…
From: Life's a Gas
I am becoming increasingly concerned whenever I see the word 'influencer' associated with someone on the internet. It is a…
From: Mano Singham
I have a new column this week on OnlySky about the effect of abortion bans. They don't decrease abortion -…
From: Daylight Atheism
Heated Rivalry is an M/M hockey romance TV series based on the book of the same name. It's some sort…
From: A Trivial Knot
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the prospect of marriage going extinct, whether it can…
From: Daylight Atheism
I'm not in favor of assassinations; I'm especially not fond of sloppy wet work. Fortunately I'm not in that business,…
From: Stderr
Wait, what? There's a Riley Gaines Center? Meanwhile, the Leadership Institute, a nearly 50-year-old nonprofit that trains conservative activists, launched…
From: Pharyngula
Incels and misogynists seem to have missed out on a lot of genetics, so they freely make it up as…
From: Pharyngula
Rebecca Watson. The context: it's because Lawrence Krauss was getting clobbered by Watson over his abuses, and he wrote to…
From: Pharyngula
Most food production is highly seasonal or dependent on other seasonally produced products, so storage is essential. And whilst one…
From: Affinity
Finally, we are getting to something really interesting - how much land would a person need to be self-sufficient with…
From: Affinity
That wasn't fun at all. I went to bed last night, and then at 11, like a magical evil switch…
From: Pharyngula
Raspberries & Pears tea is delicious. And it looks just like real tea too. [caption id="attachment_50729" align="aligncenter" width="600"] © Charly,…
From: Affinity
I've got a busy, messy morning of bottle washing ahead of me -- the first fly lab of the semester…
From: Pharyngula
Needless to say, not every environment is suitable for an attempt at self-sustainability. Neither desert nor tundra is a good…
From: Affinity
When talking about self-sustainability re: food, a healthy diet is paramount, and, in my opinion, not difficult to achieve -…
From: Affinity
The weather got warmer, a lot of the snow thawed, and my garden got covered in molehills, as well as…
From: Affinity
I wrote about this in some previous posts and in comments. Bébé Mélange mentioned it in one of my previous…
From: Affinity
[caption id="attachment_78414" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Tom Gauld[/caption] Is he lucky because he gets to meet real live aliens, or because he's…
From: Pharyngula
It's about time. Jesus was running a camp for the homeless in Alabama -- which sounds exactly like what the…
From: Pharyngula
The University of Oklahoma has made an announcement about the Samantha Fulnecky affair. It's the wrong one. [caption id="attachment_78226" align="aligncenter"…
From: Pharyngula
In these days of relentlessly depressing news, a good comedy comes as a welcome relief and this is such a…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_77735" align="alignright" width="130"] Dumbass[/caption] I don't think she should graduate from college until she passes a basic English literacy…
From: Pharyngula
A reader sent me a comment about how Catholics tell stories that they claim are in the Bible that aren't,…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_77649" align="alignright" width="150"] Chopping it all down[/caption] I had a nightmarish realization last night -- that American education was…
From: Pharyngula
We all know of and despise Ryan Walters, the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Oklahoma. He's a Christo-Fascist of the…
From: Pharyngula
As regular readers know, I play the card game bridge and recently I happened to look at some aspects of…
From: Mano Singham
Joseph Ladapo is the surgeon general for the state of Florida and is a vaccine skeptic who recently announced plans…
From: Mano Singham
I've been pretty blithe in my attempts to make people feel less doomy, and PZ did call me out on…
From: Life's a Gas
But I reject it. [caption id="attachment_78452" align="aligncenter" width="441"] SMBC[/caption] It's a silly argument. All science is built on observation and…
From: Pharyngula
The New York Times had an article that has set off alarms in higher education circles in the US that,…
From: Mano Singham
If you take a rating website, say IMDB, or Goodreads, and you sorted items purely by review scores, the stuff…
From: A Trivial Knot
One of the huge benefits of the internet and social network platforms is their ability to connect people with other…
From: Mano Singham
Trump seems obsessed with the idea of the US taking over Greenland, much to the alarm of European countries that…
From: Mano Singham
When it comes to research in experimental physics in areas that already exist, the frontiers that are usually explored are…
From: Mano Singham
Perhaps, like me, you have been concerned about the fate of the Boys, the pair of Latrodectus males I introduced…
From: Pharyngula
It's going to be a good day. I was in the kitchen early in the morning, fixing a cup of…
From: Pharyngula
I have two male Latrodectus left. Only two. Males are more fragile and die off more readily, and also, they're…
From: Pharyngula
First day back in the classroom, teaching genetics, and I speculate for a bit about why so many people find…
From: Pharyngula
As others have pointed out, one of the key differences between the first Trump administration and the current iteration is…
From: Mano Singham
lessee if this can be played as an embed... https://youtube.com/watch?v=FBL66XJRhj4 -
From: Life's a Gas
As many people as ICE is abducting right now, where are they being sent? Because as diverse as Minneapolis is,…
From: Life's a Gas
One of the huge benefits of the internet and social network platforms is their ability to connect people with other…
From: Mano Singham
Here's the only problem with comparing the Trump regime to Nazis: we have our own homegrown analogy, our heritage of…
From: Pharyngula
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about why the cost of living keeps rising, and a…
From: Daylight Atheism
What the internet and the latest forms of AI have revealed is that many people harbor the ugliest of impulses.…
From: Mano Singham
The thuggish and murderous rampage by ICE that is terrorizing the country continues, and now we have the murder of…
From: Mano Singham
Candidates after winning an election on a platform that appeals to the progressive base (because that is where the energy…
From: Mano Singham
The end of the year seems like when many take the time to take stock of the status of life…
From: Mano Singham
As others have pointed out, one of the key differences between the first Trump administration and the current iteration is…
From: Mano Singham
There is a planned walkout and protest statewide for 23 January, tomorrow. We want ICE out, and the hope is…
From: Pharyngula
I do not follow very much the Nobel Peace Prize, seeing it as a highly over-rated award but some people…
From: Mano Singham
After boasting that he would compel Europe to give him Greenland or impose tariffs on them, even implying a willingness…
From: Mano Singham
The New York Times had an article that has set off alarms in higher education circles in the US that,…
From: Mano Singham
[UPDATE: Arizona senator Ruben Gallego says that he thinks Trump is literally insane and that "Everyone needs to stop pretending…
From: Mano Singham
As many people as ICE is abducting right now, where are they being sent? Because as diverse as Minneapolis is,…
From: Life's a Gas
Look at that shit-eating grin as Trump is given a Nobel prize by María Corina Machado, who doesn't have the…
From: Pharyngula
"Evil policemen patrol the city; They look for somebody to kill. They've done a little damage, They wanna do some…
From: Life's a Gas
I do not trust this article about the chaos at the university of Austin, UATX. The author's premises are unsound.…
From: Pharyngula