A couple of medieval scholars are arguing over a dick pic. Apparently, the Bayeux tapestry depicts more than just a battle — it has numerous images of penises. The Oxford professor George Gar…

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26.04.2025

Visited by an alien

I got a new toy! It’s a $30 trail cam that will probably cost $300 once the tariffs take effect, but I got it because I was curious about what has been going on in my back yard. There is a bu…

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25.04.2025

KRAUSS SMASHED

Recall that I sneered at this new book coming out, The War on Science, edited by Lawrence Krauss. It’s a strangely focused book, given that it’s quite clear that it is the Republicans w…

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25.04.2025

That isn’t ominous at all

The federal government (innocently, I’m sure) checking on college faculty to identify which ones are Jewish. Most professors at Barnard College received text messages on Monday notifying them…

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25.04.2025

It’s a race to the end

There’s a week and a half until the end of the semester…will I make it? I’m giving myself a 50% chance of crawling across the finish line and then curling up into a soggy ball of tears,…

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25.04.2025

What do you think I am, Vernonia amygdalina?

I don’t think my flesh would be particularly bitter — maybe fatty and stringy, not particularly meaty in flavor or texture. This just-so story fails with the non-existence of the proper…

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25.04.2025

Social Media is trying to make me cry

I should just get off the internet altogether, maybe. Get a tarpaper shack with no electricity or running water somewhere. For those who don’t know, the NY Times Pitchbot posts humorous, sarc…

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24.04.2025

Another mammoth resurrected!

David Futrelle has brought back We Hunted the Mammoth! Go read it! The latest post is about JK Rowling and Graham Linehan. OK, maybe you should run away instead — nothing good can come of tho…

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24.04.2025

An ugly word: “warfighter”

I’ve been hearing this word “warfighter” a lot lately, often coming out of the mouths of macho assholes like Pete Hegseth. It implies that the role of the military is simply fight…

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24.04.2025

Now that’s a good science fair project

Good question. I’m impressed. It’s an original idea, executed simply, and that’s what I like to see in a science fair question. It’s simple but a little bit icky: he put lip…

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24.04.2025

Our government is occupied by pure evil

Law? We don’t need no stinkin’ law. We’re trying to banish children here. Kids are being hauled into court and told by a judge that they are trying to decide whether to kick them …

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24.04.2025

This is a good time to say “NO!”

There’s a letter floating around among American universities. It’s a good letter that expresses some commendable statements, but is a bit light on specific actions they’re going t…

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23.04.2025

Earth Day (or is it Air Day?)

I get excited when I find a couple of delicate strands of silk*, but then Mary has to come along and gloat about all the birds she saw just yesterday: American Crow, American Goldfinch, American Ro…

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23.04.2025

Spidersign!

I’ve been checking this one spot along my walk to work all Spring, a row of metal signposts along a parking lot. These are simply dark metal objects that absorb what heat there is, and while …

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22.04.2025

Anyone want a furry 10-lb wrecking ball?

Last night, this beast nearly cost me a lot of money. She decided to jump up on my desk, but she is not a sinuous, agile feline — she is an inept, clumsy idiot. She landed on my webcam and se…

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22.04.2025

What’s your IQ?

I don’t care, because most people’s understanding of IQ is ill-founded and wrong. All the belligerent guys online who insist they have a high IQ? I suspect many of them haven’t actually…

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22.04.2025

They want to claim vaccines are a bioweapon now

Well, hello there, Minnesota Republicans. You just had to pop your little heads up and prove to the world that you are ignorant, stupid, or insane. Behold, HF 3219, the mRNA Bioweapons Prohibition …

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22.04.2025

There is an extremely smug crackpot prowling the streets of Minneapolis today

This past weekend, I had a brief encounter with a ranting, raving kook howling about nefarious Jews and the virtues of the Tao. He also predicted that the Pope would die in 48 hours. Uh-oh. The Pop…

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21.04.2025

And a good time was had by all

I had to skip out on all the talks of the last day of the American Atheists convention — we’re entering the last two weeks of the semester, with lots of extra work, and usually I spend …

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20.04.2025

I went for a walk in Minneapolis, near the atheist con

I spotted different breed of street preacher. He was ranting at the top of his lungs about “the Tao” and something about kundalini. How refreshing, I thought. Then he started raving abo…

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20.04.2025

What I learned yesterday

This old atheist found it to be an encouraging day. Keith Ellison spoke at an atheist conference despite being a Muslim because he’s committed to religious freedom and plurality. He also neve…

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19.04.2025

Second thoughts

I’m about to drive to Minneapolis for the American Atheists conference. I’m not as enthused as I ought to be. Atheism is an important topic, especially given the ascendance of destructi…

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18.04.2025

This is how eugenicists talk

This is also how Nazis talk. In a press conference Wednesday morning that surely delighted his allies in the anti-vaccine movement, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. respond…

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18.04.2025

You know, he’s not actually ever going to Mars

Elon Musk does not dream of colonizing distant worlds. His dream is to milk the federal government of every penny he can get, and his real goal is about tapping into lucrative defense contracts. • …

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18.04.2025

A bad way to protest

In the big cities, crosswalks are equipped with those little buttons pedestrians can press to request a light change, and that also have speakers to announce which direction is safe to cross, a saf…

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17.04.2025

Happy birthday, Mom

My calendar is set up to pop up a message every 16 April: “Call your mother.” I think I’ll keep that alert despite the fact that I can’t call her anymore. She’d be 86 …

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16.04.2025

I take it none of my European friends will be coming to visit me

Really, I don’t blame you. Can I move in with you, instead?

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16.04.2025

Is blood the only alternative to comedians?

Jon Stewart exposes the over-the-top stupidity and arrogance of the president, and also the embarrassing sycophancy of the Republicans who fawn over him, but is it enough? I think I’ve had en…

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16.04.2025

Lawrence Krauss is getting worse

He has a new book coming out, The War on Science. It does not look promising. Here’s a list of the contributors: Dorian Abbot, John Armstrong, Peter Boghossian, Maarten Boudry, Alex Byrne, Ni…

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16.04.2025

Major space news!!!!

Jeff Bezos launched Katy Perry into space for 11 minutes. That’s it. That’s our big news today. Woo hoo. You can find a most excellent summary of the whole thing in the Guardian. Given …

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15.04.2025

Such a cutie-pie

Blue seems to like her new housing. She even likes the artificial flowers I gave her, climbing to the top and pressing her face against the glass.

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15.04.2025

If you thought they could lie fast before, now AI has been harnessed to spew them harder & faster

A new paper is out: A Critical Reassessment of the Anthropogenic CO₂-Global Warming Hypothesis: Empirical Evidence Contradicts IPCC Models and Solar Forcing Assumptions. Let us examine the authors.…

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15.04.2025

I’ll never think of Spider-Man any other way

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15.04.2025

My alma mater isn’t feeling so good

I graduated from the University of Washington, which is a major research institution, with lots of NIH money usually flowing through it. Usually. Everything changed this year. Universities are reel…

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14.04.2025

Blue has outgrown her home!

She’s been living in a plexiglas cube that used to be quite comfortable for her, but that pile of molts I keep on top is testimony that she just keeps on growing. So crowded. So shabby. So th…

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14.04.2025

Civil war in the Minnesota Republicans!

That’s some headline I saw on the front page of the Star Tribune this morning. Say what? Republicans opposing the extremists in their ranks? This is good to see…except the mainstream Republic…

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13.04.2025

That’s what they are: enemies of democracy

Remember Garbage Pail Kids, those collectable cards that illustrated horrible, disgusting cartoon characters? They were pretty tame in comparison to this version: an illustrator drew up some &#8220…

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12.04.2025

The premise is false

Marc Andreessen, a world class boob whose existence demonstrates that intelligence is not a prerequisite to great wealth, wants to destroy universities. Why? Because they do a bad job. That’s…

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12.04.2025

MAHA by turning the country into a toxic wasteland

RFK jr is a distraction. His role is to make a lot of noise, undermine confidence in modern medicine, and pretend to be doing great things for Americans, even as he is promoting placebos and useles…

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11.04.2025

You aren’t bad, neither is your phone…but the capitalists who abuse it are evil

I get all kinds of awful advice from the internet. Just now, on my work email account, I got a message from the Star Tribune telling me how to Make your smartphone dumb, and other tips to break soc…

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“Anatomically fulsome”

Visited by an alien

KRAUSS SMASHED

That isn’t ominous at all

It’s a race to the end

What do you think I am, Vernonia amygdalina?

Social Media is trying to make me cry

Another mammoth resurrected!

An ugly word: “warfighter”

Now that’s a good science fair project

Our government is occupied by pure evil

This is a good time to say “NO!”

Earth Day (or is it Air Day?)

Spidersign!

Anyone want a furry 10-lb wrecking ball?

What’s your IQ?

They want to claim vaccines are a bioweapon now

There is an extremely smug crackpot prowling the streets of Minneapolis today

And a good time was had by all

I went for a walk in Minneapolis, near the atheist con

What I learned yesterday

Second thoughts

This is how eugenicists talk

You know, he’s not actually ever going to Mars

A bad way to protest

Happy birthday, Mom

I take it none of my European friends will be coming to visit me

Is blood the only alternative to comedians?

Lawrence Krauss is getting worse

Major space news!!!!

Such a cutie-pie

If you thought they could lie fast before, now AI has been harnessed to spew them harder & faster

I’ll never think of Spider-Man any other way

My alma mater isn’t feeling so good

Blue has outgrown her home!

Civil war in the Minnesota Republicans!

That’s what they are: enemies of democracy

The premise is false

MAHA by turning the country into a toxic wasteland

You aren’t bad, neither is your phone…but the capitalists who abuse it are evil

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