- Colossal and Trump administration cooperate to sequence and store DNA of endangered species June 28, 2026
- Pathbreaking new conclusion: all babies are queer June 28, 2026
- Sunday: Hili dialogue June 28, 2026
- Bill Maher on the World Cup and the good stuff about America June 27, 2026
- Caturday felid trifecta: The world’s richest cat; the cat called Room 8; YouTube video confirms existence of Libyan sand cat; and lagniappe June 27, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos and videos June 27, 2026
- Saturday: Hili dialogue June 27, 2026
- Michael Egnor responds to my critique of his free will-ism, and I discover a disturbing case of plagiarism June 26, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 26, 2026
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ onanism June 26, 2026
- Friday: Hili dialogue June 26, 2026
- A bull-goose looney: one of the three Mamdani-endorsed Democratic Socialists who will likely sit in Congress June 25, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 25, 2026
- Thursday: Hili dialogue June 25, 2026
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ naturalism June 24, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 24, 2026
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue June 24, 2026
- Reader’s wildlife photos June 23, 2026
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue June 23, 2026
- Andrzej’s new book June 22, 2026
- My cinemaphile nephew’s list of best movies June 22, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife videos June 22, 2026
- Monday: Hili dialogue June 22, 2026
- ID advocate Michael Egnor defends free will, misleads his audience June 21, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 21, 2026
- Sunday: Hili dialogue June 21, 2026
- Last night’s “Real Time” with Bill Maher June 20, 2026
- Caturday felids trifecta: kitten rescued after tornado; brave cat spooks bear; why cats can’t taste sweetness; and lagniappe June 20, 2026
- Reader’s wildlife photo: gosling rescue June 20, 2026
- Saturday: Hili dialogue June 20, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 19, 2026
- Friday: Hili dialogue June 19, 2026
- Despite its uselessness, homeopathy persists June 18, 2026
- Thursday: Hili dialogue June 18, 2026
- “Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi June 17, 2026
- The “Memorandum of Understanding” June 17, 2026
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ context June 17, 2026
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue June 17, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 16, 2026
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue June 16, 2026
- Luana Maroja encounters “Fat Studies” June 15, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 15, 2026
- Chat GPT caricature June 15, 2026
- Monday: Hili dialogue June 15, 2026
- Berkeley math professor argues that we need to bring back SATs and other standardized tests in college admissions June 14, 2026
- Bill Maher on Graham Platner June 14, 2026
- World Cup: Brazil vs. Morocco (highlights) June 14, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 14, 2026
- Sunday: Hili dialogue June 14, 2026
- Caturday felid trifecta: Cats prefer silver vine to catnip; Disneyland’s cats; police department allowed people to pay off tickets with cat food; and lagniappe June 13, 2026
- Here are the toads! June 13, 2026
- A hard day: three duckling rescues June 13, 2026
- Spot the toads! June 13, 2026
- Saturday: Hili dialogue June 13, 2026
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the smear June 12, 2026
- Duck doings, part 2: Vashti’s baby’s hatch, attempted capture of brood June 12, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 12, 2026
- Friday: Hili dialogue June 12, 2026
- Duck doings #1: Brood of unnamed duck vanishes the day it came down; miscellaneous stuff June 11, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 11, 2026
- Thursday: Hili dialogue June 11, 2026
- Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Songs of All Time” June 10, 2026
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ scams June 10, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 10, 2026
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue June 10, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 9, 2026
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue June 9, 2026
- If you haven’t read Da Roolz, please do so June 8, 2026
- A new report on the dangers of politicizing humanities in academia June 8, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 8, 2026
- Monday: Hili dialogue June 8, 2026
- Bill Maher’s New Rule: How the kids must “fix” AI June 7, 2026
- A superb piece: Sam Harris explains why, though he has criticisms of Israel, he won’t debate Israel’s critics June 7, 2026
- Sunday: Hili dialogue June 7, 2026
- Caturday felid trifecta: Large cat geoglyph discovered in Peru; Japan’s lucrative cat fixation; senior act addicted to mashed potatoes with butter; and lagniappe June 6, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 6, 2026
- Saturday: Hili dialogue June 6, 2026
- Here’s the elk calf! June 5, 2026
- Spot the elk calf! June 5, 2026
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Pride June 5, 2026
- Friday: Hili dialogue June 5, 2026
- The duck situation at Botany Pond. . . June 4, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 4, 2026
- Thursday: Hili dialogue June 4, 2026
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Ganesh June 3, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 3, 2026
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue June 3, 2026
- Statistical misreporting on a new cancer drug: “survival times” misconstrued as “survival rates” or “death risks” June 2, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 2, 2026
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue June 2, 2026
- A shirt and a puggle June 1, 2026
- U.S. colonies on the Moon and Mars are a waste of money: a guest post June 1, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 1, 2026
- Monday: Hili dialogue June 1, 2026
- Words I detest May 31, 2026
- A superb book about Gauguin May 31, 2026
- Reader’s wildlife photo (and video) May 31, 2026
- Sunday: Hili dialogue May 31, 2026
- New Rule from Bill Maher: Let’s be Frank May 30, 2026
- Eighty years after a famous math problem was posed, AI finally solved it May 30, 2026
- Caturday felid trifecta: California cat fights off coyote; Dubai erects cat feeding statiions; a feral cat befriends a wild fox, and they’re adopted together; and lagniappe May 30, 2026
- Saturday: Hili dialogue May 30, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photographs May 29, 2026
- Friday: Hili dialogue May 29, 2026
- “Peer Review”: A new section of a science journal that critiques articles in other journals May 28, 2026
- Should we allow people who aren’t terminally ill to undergo medically assisted dying? May 28, 2026
- Thursday: Hili dialogue May 28, 2026
- Here are the tree frogs! May 27, 2026
- Rick Beato’s top 40 albums of all time: my take May 27, 2026
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Hafiz May 27, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 27, 2026
- Spot the tree frogs! May 27, 2026
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue May 27, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 26, 2026
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue May 26, 2026
- Turtle yoga at Botany Pond May 25, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 25, 2026
- Monday: Hili dialogue May 25, 2026
- Peace for our time? (. . and a poll) May 24, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 24, 2026
- Sunday: Hili dialogue May 24, 2026
- Saturday: Hili dialogue (and discussion) May 23, 2026
- Posting will be light today. . . May 22, 2026
- Friday: Hili dialogue May 22, 2026
- The reported benefits and dangers of chiropractic May 21, 2026
- I did not publish this dreck May 21, 2026
- Thursday: Hili dialogue May 21, 2026
- Joni! May 20, 2026
- More on Colossal’s futile efforts to “de-extinct” ancient giant birds May 20, 2026
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ shahada pants May 20, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 20, 2026
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue May 20, 2026
- A federal judge takes apart Nicholas Kristof’s controversial accusations against Israel May 19, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 19, 2026
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue May 19, 2026
- Beauty is in the (evolved) eye of the beholder May 18, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 18, 2026
- Monday: Hili dialogue May 18, 2026
- Cat food in Chinatown May 17, 2026
- Bill Maher’s new rule: “No Jews, no news” May 17, 2026
- New surveys of physicists show them united on some scientific issues, but divided on most May 17, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 17, 2026
- Sunday: Hili dialogue May 17, 2026
- Caturday felid trifecta: NASA replies to cat tweets; Oxford University’s library cat; cat screams for attention before doing front flips; and lagniappe May 16, 2026
- Saturday: Hili dialogue May 16, 2026
- “Raising Hare”: an engrossing natural-history memoir May 15, 2026
- More criticism of Kristof’s allegations about Israel May 15, 2026
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ transformation May 15, 2026
- Friday: Hili dialogue May 15, 2026
- The Times ditched its public editor, but oy, does it need one now! May 14, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 14, 2026
- Thursday: Hili dialogue May 14, 2026
- Nicholas Kristof claims widespread sexual abuse of Palestinians by Israelis, including rape by trained dogs May 13, 2026
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ a double take May 13, 2026
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue May 13, 2026
- “These people’s takes are absurd”: Rick Beato versus the NYT’s music critics May 12, 2026
- Book take: “Heretic” by Catherine Nixey: a heterodox view of Christianity May 12, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 12, 2026
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue May 12, 2026
- Falcon Cam! May 11, 2026
- A reader reports on London’s March Against Antisemitism May 11, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 11, 2026
- Monday: Hili dialogue May 11, 2026
- Bill Maher’s newest rule: young people and political violence May 10, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 10, 2026
- Sunday: Hili dialogue May 10, 2026
- Caturday felid trifecta: Male lion illegally sold as cub is reunited with parents; three-legged cat and three-legged dog adopted together; Taylor Swift and her cats; and lagniappe May 9, 2026
- Saturday: Hili dialogue May 9, 2026
- Words and phrases I detest May 8, 2026
- Friday: Hili dialogue May 8, 2026
- In which my Senator tries to explain to me why he voted against providing military aid to Israel May 7, 2026
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ othering May 7, 2026
- Thusday: Hili dialogue May 7, 2026
- Vanderbilt’s Provost Daniel Diermeier discusses the ideological erosion of universities—and the way to fix it May 6, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 6, 2026
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue May 6, 2026
- Two good books May 5, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 5, 2026
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue May 5, 2026
- Bill Maher’s new rule: “Stop making me know stuff I don’t wanna know” May 4, 2026
- Owen Jones v. Natasha Hausdorff on the Israeli “genocide” and the UK protests (and I get mail) May 4, 2026
- Monday: Hili dialogue May 4, 2026
- Rich Beato criticizes the NYT’s list of greatest living songwriters May 3, 2026
- Dawkins: Is AI conscious? May 3, 2026
- Sunday: Hili dialogue May 3, 2026
- Protesting students break the rules (and the law) at Swarthmore and Cornell May 2, 2026
- Caturday felid trifecta: Larry the Cat finally catches a mouse; the counties that have the most cats; cat meme helps catch a cyberhacking group; and lagniappe May 2, 2026
- Saturday: Hili dialogue May 2, 2026
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ substitutionary atonement May 1, 2026
- The newly-arrived hen is Vashti May 1, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos May 1, 2026
- Prematurely published Hili dialogue May 1, 2026
- Friday: Hili dialogue May 1, 2026
- Vashti is back (probably) April 30, 2026
- Anti-Jewish violence in the UK, politics, and the BBC April 30, 2026
- Thursday: Hili dialogue April 30, 2026
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the loo April 29, 2026
- Readers’ wildlife photos April 29, 2026
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue April 29, 2026
- The NYT’s list of the best books of this century (the 21st): not much science April 28, 2026
The Archive
June 8, 2014 • 6:26 am