[caption id="attachment_2144" align="aligncenter" width="350"] Revenge of the Phantom Press[/caption] I took a break from Freethought Blogs to edit Revenge of…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
While idly surfing the internet, I came across an item that began "This reminds me of the joke of two…
From: Mano Singham
The Probability Broach, chapter 9 Having fended off his nighttime attacker, and with extra security in place, Win resumes mending…
From: Daylight Atheism
As long-time readers know, I am big fan of murder mysteries, in books and in TV/film forms. Arthur Conan Doyle…
From: Mano Singham
By Reporter X In front of a packed audience of humans and aliens, Petter Hörnfeldt, known as Mentour Pilot on…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
Once again we have a story about an adult at a sporting event snatching a souvenir out of the hands…
From: Mano Singham
I had a dream that started with people talking about a young lady who just had an abortion. There was…
From: Life's a Gas
In a comment to my blog post reviewing the film The Penguin Lessons, commenter jimf wrote: I understand it was…
From: Mano Singham
(Disclaimer: to the extent that this article was inspired by a specific creator, it's not a creator you've heard of,…
From: A Trivial Knot
The Probability Broach, chapter 8 Speaking as a policeman, Win Bear is still incredulous that the anarcho-capitalist North American Confederacy…
From: Daylight Atheism
The first time I asked Claude if it wanted to play Battleship with me, it misinterpreted what I said and…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
Tragic. Avi Loeb lost the annual soccer match at his institution! Last night, we held the annual soccer cup match…
From: Pharyngula
I told you that Brian Lauer is an ignorant buffoon, but you shouldn't trust my opinion alone. Last night, Mark…
From: Pharyngula
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
Brian Lauer of the Twin Cities Creation Science Association debated Mark Reid on the topic of creation vs. evolution and…
From: Pharyngula
And they're no better than creationists elsewhere. I felt compelled to critique a bad creationist debate sponsored by the Twin…
From: Pharyngula
I ran across this ridiculous comment, and it struck me that the interesting thing isn't that Joseph Martin is outright…
From: Pharyngula
This is a photo of the gravitational lensing caused by a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. The cosmic…
From: Pharyngula
Don't you know? RFK jr is not anti-vax. He supports safe vaccines. News reports have claimed that I am anti-vaccine…
From: Pharyngula
Sad news: we've lost an important scientist and atheist, Abby Hafer, professor and American Humanist board member. Also, the Discovery…
From: Pharyngula
Wait, no, that's not true -- the Republicans are gunning for everyone who is tolerant of other people's sexual orientation.…
From: Pharyngula
It's another anatomical atrocity from the bowels of the internet. Be amazed at the magnitude of the physical differences between…
From: Pharyngula
So much of the nonsense about the gender binary is projection, and imposition of cultural biases on top of biology.…
From: Pharyngula
I had a dream that started with people talking about a young lady who just had an abortion. There was…
From: Life's a Gas
Quakers are just one step removed from humanists, but with an even greater commitment to social justice. I like that,…
From: Pharyngula
"A teenage dream's so hard to beat, every time she walks down the street. Another girl in the neighborhood, wish…
From: Life's a Gas
I run an annual survey, and we're always asking about sexual identity. We include some options that are more obscure…
From: A Trivial Knot
I am relieved that I am not a gay or trans person, since this country is getting worse and worse…
From: Pharyngula
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the declining birth rate, not just in the U.S.,…
From: Daylight Atheism
I didn't know or even know of Transtifa -- I'm not a Twin Cities person -- but I have to…
From: Pharyngula
This conversation, initially scheduled for last Saturday, was postponed. It will happen today, I promise!
From: Pharyngula
Hey, have you noticed that no one is talking about NFTs anymore? It's like they all just fell into a…
From: Pharyngula
My PC is out of commission right now, so no origami this month. Still got a handful of links. Why…
From: A Trivial Knot
A single shot was fired at Kirk during one of his rants at Utah Valley University, striking him in the…
From: Pharyngula
The evil cat stands among the containers full of baby bold jumping spiders -- she is totally unaware that she…
From: Pharyngula
The Epstein birthday book has been released, and you can read it all for yourself. The content is not very…
From: Pharyngula
From the time we are children, we are often told that we need to do something that we do not…
From: Mano Singham
None of the above! These are actual posters from the US Department of Labor. To be honest, the Soviet propaganda…
From: Pharyngula
I wasn't sure about how and when I would come round to doing this, and then suddenly I was finished.…
From: Affinity
Tomorrow at 2pm Pacific Time, the crew here at Freethoughtblogs are going to talk about some of the books we've…
From: Pharyngula
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
I was in the parking lot of home despot, when I saw this sign at a distance. Initially I thought…
From: Life's a Gas
To me the answer is 'no' but the title of this post was suggested by this essay by Philip Goff,…
From: Mano Singham
I just learned that Jimmy Swaggart died earlier this month. He was a terrible human being, a televangelist, an occupation…
From: Pharyngula
As I emphasized in my posts during the past week, the Scopes trial did not resolve any of the major…
From: Mano Singham
As discussed in the last three posts, as a purely legal matter, the Scopes trial was inconsequential, setting no legal…
From: Mano Singham
As I discussed in my two previous posts, in strictly legal terms, the 1925 Scopes trial had little impact. But…
From: Mano Singham
As I said in my previous post, the Scopes defense team wanted their client to be found guilty of violating…
From: Mano Singham
This week I will review some aspects of the famous 1925 Scopes trial that lasted from July 10 through Tuesday,…
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
Our garden is full of monarchs -- here are three at once chomping through the foliage. The caterpillars are doing…
From: Pharyngula
Even though I know of nothing horrifying about spiders. [caption id="attachment_77421" align="aligncenter" width="500"] xkcd[/caption]
From: Pharyngula
There was an interesting op-ed in the NY Times today (it's been a long time since I could say that):…
From: Pharyngula
While idly surfing the internet, I came across an item that began "This reminds me of the joke of two…
From: Mano Singham
There's a new book out to defend science, titled uncreatively The War on Science, by Lawrence Krauss. The theme is…
From: Pharyngula
From the time we are children, we are often told that we need to do something that we do not…
From: Mano Singham
Except that that would be a big mistake. We've got a great many dagger moth caterpillars nibbling on some of…
From: Pharyngula
They're beginning to metamorphose. Mary also took a photo of the same chrysalis, with her iPhone. Hers came out a…
From: Pharyngula
When capitalism trumps science…this is Donald Morisky. He developed a useful tool called the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale, a questionnaire…
From: Pharyngula
The US Federal Reserve has two missions: keep inflation under control and have full employment. What should be the desired…
From: Mano Singham
That Trump is struggling to have his ICE goons meet the quota for detaining and deporting people (reportedly the target…
From: Mano Singham
British prime minister Keir Starmer and the governing Labour party have shown themselves to be utterly complicit in the Israeli…
From: Mano Singham
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the curse of car dependence, and whether there's another…
From: Daylight Atheism
Over in the UK, it looks like prime minister Keir Starmer is blowing it big time. It was just a…
From: Mano Singham
The BLS has released the August job numbers and they continue the dismal trend that started in May where the…
From: Mano Singham
A shooter killed two people and injured 17 others while they were at church on the opening day of a…
From: Mano Singham
I just watched this charming film starring Steve Coogan and Jonathan Pryce. I don't know what made me pick it…
From: Mano Singham
Reports of abuses by the government's thugs in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) keep growing. This is hardly surprising since…
From: Mano Singham
Given that we now live in what is effectively a racist police state in which people of color can be…
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 disturbed for the last day by all the unfounded speculation that Charlie Kirk's killer was a far left…
From: Pharyngula
The US Federal Reserve has two missions: keep inflation under control and have full employment. What should be the desired…
From: Mano Singham
The Probability Broach, chapter 9 Safe and sound (for the moment), Win Bear continues his research into why history unfolded…
From: Daylight Atheism
Bin Laden inaugurated the new millennium by breaking some bottles airplanes on the prow of a ship world trade whatever…
From: Life's a Gas
The former president of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for plotting a military…
From: Mano Singham
Somebody is compiling a public list of people who "support political violence online," which seems to mean only people who…
From: Pharyngula
The killing of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk has created an outpouring in the media and among the political classes…
From: Mano Singham
Did you know that Melissa Hortman's murderer has still not been charged with domestic terrorism, despite the fact that he…
From: Pharyngula
I seem to recall in a blog post and a podcast mentioning that we're about to see more terrorism from…
From: Life's a Gas