- A paper beyond belief March 16, 2025
- Botany Pond has ducks! March 16, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 16, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue March 16, 2025
- Harvard Law School students vote to divest, boycott, and sanction Israel; University of Chicago investigated for racial discrimination March 15, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Mischief, the perambulating moggy; cat in love with Amazon delivery man; reunion of cat and staff after L.A. wildfires; March 15, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 15, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue March 15, 2025
- Hitchens: Did Jesus exist? March 14, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 14, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue March 14, 2025
- Dawkins and Pinker discuss evolution March 13, 2025
- My Quillette review of Francis Collins’s new book on healing America with science, truth, trust, and faith March 13, 2025
- No readers’ wildlife today March 13, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue March 13, 2025
- Coyne’s Rule of Conversation March 12, 2025
- Guest post: Shuttle astronauts to return to Earth at last (?) March 12, 2025
- Should Mahmoud Khalil be deported? March 12, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Safe Spaces March 12, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 12, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue March 12, 2025
- It’s protest season again March 11, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 11, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue March 11, 2025
- Bill Maher presents new posters March 10, 2025
- NYT and Bloomberg refuse mention high-quality study showing that DEI training has counterproductive results March 10, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 10, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue March 10, 2025
- A 14-year-old human calculator March 9, 2025
- The WaPo describes (and distorts) a big “culture war” in New Zealand March 9, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 9, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue March 9, 2025
- Bill Maher’s New Rule: Guilt by Civilization March 8, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Do cats recognize themselves in a mirror?: cat helps owner with ice-water therapy, “Flow” cat shows up at Oscars; and lagniaippe March 8, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 8, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue March 8, 2025
- The difference between scholarship and political activism March 7, 2025
- The exchange of letters to the tri-Societies continues; they largely concede our points March 7, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 7, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue March 7, 2025
- Gavin Newsom breaks with “progressive” Democrats, proclaims that trans-identified men competing in women’s sports is “unfair” March 6, 2025
- More dreadful science journalistm: The “new” Scientific American touts the Woolly Mouse as a precursor of the Woolly Mammoth; misses all the real problems March 6, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 6, 2025
- Thursday Hili dialogue March 6, 2025
- Now they’re trying to create “woolly mice” on the road to the woolly mammoth March 5, 2025
- Should we ditch the word “gender”? March 5, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ imitation March 5, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 5, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue March 5, 2025
- This week’s Bill Maher clip March 4, 2025
- Oy! Women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Barnard March 4, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife videos March 4, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue March 4, 2025
- Gender-altering surgery raises the incidence of mental illness in those with gender dysphoria March 3, 2025
- Is theology of any use? March 3, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 3, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue March 3, 2025
- Alex Byrne on sex, the history of its definition, and assorted misconceptions March 2, 2025
- A misleading case of “trauma inherited across generations” March 2, 2025
- Our updated letter to the three ecology/evolution societies who claimed that sex was a spectrum March 2, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 2, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue March 2, 2025
- “A Day of American Infamy” March 1, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Cat art; cats through art history; misunderstandings about cats; and lagniappe (two!) March 1, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 1, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue March 1, 2025
- “Rockin’ Chair” February 28, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 28, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue February 28, 2025
- Douthat again—in The New Yorker February 27, 2025
- Upcoming talk and new book on ideology and science February 27, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 27, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue February 27, 2025
- After a hiatus, Scientific American once again shows signs of wokeness, dissing the binary nature of biological sex February 26, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the Qur’an February 26, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 26, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogoue February 26, 2025
- More tacit recognition of two sexes in humans February 25, 2025
- Bill Maher vs. Jon Lovett on trans rights February 25, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 25, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue February 25, 2025
- Nature Human Behavior is back, this time touting “allyship” February 24, 2025
- Konstantin Kisin: “The tide is turning” February 24, 2025
- Still collecting signatures on the tri-societies letter February 24, 2025
- No readers’ wildlife today February 24, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue February 24, 2025
- Beyoncé wins Grammy for album of the year, despite her so-so music February 23, 2025
- “Competency standards” for New Zealand pharmacists released: guess what they emphasize February 23, 2025
- The fundamental fallacy of the “sex spectrum” February 23, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 23, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue February 23, 2025
- The forgotten Karla Bonoff February 22, 2025
- Here’s the squirrel! February 22, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: The Kiffness with “Kitty Caught a Mouse; cat bread-delivery service; runaway cat hitches 18-mile train ride ; and lagniappe February 22, 2025
- Spot the squirrel! February 22, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 22, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue February 22, 2025
- Reminder if you want to sign the joint letter to the “tri-societies” presidents February 21, 2025
- Douthat’s still flogging his book; tells us what he really believe in as a pious Catholic February 21, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 21, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue February 21, 2025
- Richard Dawkins on the “tri-societies” fracas on sex (and a call for signatures) February 20, 2025
- From the Boston Globe: Carole Hooven explains the binary nature of sex (and other stuff) February 20, 2025
- The U.S. government’s new definition of sex February 20, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue February 20, 2025
- Four dead hostages, including the Bibas family, handed over to Israel by Hamas February 20, 2025
- Our letter to the three societies on the definition of sex—with signers February 19, 2025
- The AAUP abandons its mission to defend academic freedom February 19, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Catholic math February 19, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue February 19, 2025
- Ross Douthat touts his new book in The Free Press, impugning “believers in belief” because they reject the tenets of religions February 18, 2025
- Richard Dawkins chats with AI about consciousness February 18, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 18, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue February 18, 2025
- The Atlantic on the government’s attacks on science February 17, 2025
- Most DEI endeavors in higher education are declared illegal February 17, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 17, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue February 17, 2025
- Bill Maher’s Latest Rule: Love with AI February 16, 2025
- Hagan Scotten: a person with integrity February 16, 2025
- Douthat on the best argument against God (too much evil), but he argues that God is evidenced also by too much GOOD February 16, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 16, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue February 16, 2025
- A poll of UK scientists shows most agree that sex is binary February 15, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Palmerston moves to Bermuda; Browser the Library Cat keeps his job; The Kiffness with “Sometimes I’m alone”; and lagniappe February 15, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 15, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue February 15, 2025
- The New York Times distorts the situation with the refuted 2010 “arsenic life” paper February 14, 2025
- Apparent independent and multiple evolution of binary sex February 14, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 14, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue February 14, 2025
- “I’ll never love this way again” February 13, 2025
- New book argues that Alzheimer’s research is flawed, fraudulent, and incompetent February 13, 2025
- A group letter to the presidents of three evolution/ecology societies objecting to their characterization of sex as a spectrum in humans and all other species February 13, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 13, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue February 13, 2025
- Thursday Music February 13, 2025
- New SSE announcement touts social justice February 12, 2025
- Ross Douthat continues to use the NY Times to tout his new book on why we we should be religious. But he uses the same tired old arguments. February 12, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ hypocrisy February 12, 2025
- Darwin Day stuff February 12, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue February 12, 2025
- Sam Harris and Brian Greene debate religion vs. science, and how to deal with believers February 11, 2025
- The University of Chicago takes an institutional position against the Trump Administration’s slashing of grant monies February 11, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 11, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue February 11, 2025
- I get scamming emails February 10, 2025
- More on the “three-societies letter” about sex February 10, 2025
- Māori complain because Starlink satellites disturb their rituals and may make celestial navigation of canoes harder February 10, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 10, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue February 10, 2025
- Ideology trumps biology: Three evolution societies again issue a misleading statement about the definition of sex (Post #30,000) February 9, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 9, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue February 9, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Three best cat commercials; rescue of a kitten glued to the road; vintage cat photos, and langiappe February 8, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 8, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue February 8, 2025
- NCAA bans transgender athletes from women’s sports February 7, 2025
- Australians propose an indigenous periodic table February 7, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 7, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue February 7, 2025
- The journal Nature touts “two-eyed seeing” (the supposed advantage of combining modern scientific knowledge with indigenous “ways of knowing”) February 6, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 6, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue February 6, 2025
- Sean Carroll on the weirdness of quantum physics February 5, 2025
- Dawkins on the binary nature of sex, the kerFFRFle, and more February 5, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ (dis)belief February 5, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue February 5, 2025
- Fights: fishes vs. birds February 4, 2025
- Now the Free Press touts religion as filling our “god-shaped hole” February 4, 2025
- Identity-based hiring goes wild in New Zealand February 4, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 4, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue February 4, 2025
- Alan Sokal on guilt by association February 3, 2025
- Ross Douthat tells us how to choose a faith if you’ve got that “god-shaped hole” (and apparently we all do) February 3, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 3, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue February 3, 2025
- Livestream from Earth: video from the International Space Station February 2, 2025
- Abigail Shrier on the waning gender fever February 2, 2025
- Ibram Kendi moves from Boston University to Howard University February 2, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 2, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue February 2, 2025
- Bill Maher’s latest comedy bit February 1, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: New Kiffness song; stuff sitting on cats; sedated cat gets pwned February 1, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 1, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue February 1, 2025
- New Zealand volcano deemed to have the status of personhood January 31, 2025
- FIRE rebukes U Conn’s medical school for compelled speech by confecting and forcing on students a social-justice Hippocratic oath. January 31, 2025
- Day 3: USC Conference on Censorship in the Sciences January 31, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos January 31, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue January 31, 2025
- Stephen Fry on how the faults of the Left promoted the rise of the Right January 30, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos January 30, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue January 30, 2025
- Burn the heretical Oxford English dictionary! January 29, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ othering January 29, 2025
- Another child killed by religion January 29, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos and video January 29, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue January 29, 2025
- More wokeness in biology January 28, 2025
The Archive
June 8, 2014 • 6:26 am