- Julian Baggini reviews a new book on agency that ignores the issue of free will December 7, 2022
- Here’s the frog! December 7, 2022
- More Kiwi missteps: New Zealand tries to infuse spirituality into chemistry (and electrical engineering) December 7, 2022
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ näive realism December 7, 2022
- Conservative religious organization refused restaurant service in Virginia: does this violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964? December 7, 2022
- Spot the frog! December 7, 2022
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue December 7, 2022
- Michelle Obama’s on tour December 6, 2022
- Once again, the binary nature of biological sex: Colin Wright and Sean Carroll December 6, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos December 6, 2022
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue December 6, 2022
- Marilynne Robinson again embarrasses herself with an attempt to harmonize science and theology December 5, 2022
- Listen live to the Supreme Court hearings on the Colorado case December 5, 2022
- A New Zealand geography teacher calls for giving Mātauranga Māori “equal status” in the classroom December 5, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos December 5, 2022
- Monday: Hili dialogue December 5, 2022
- Guardian readers explain why they’re no longer Christians December 4, 2022
- Pamela Paul on the breaking of gender stereotypes, and how both Left and Right push back December 4, 2022
- Reveal: “Spot the critter” December 4, 2022
- Videos from the Stanford Academic Freedom Conference December 4, 2022
- Getting straight about sex: A collection of useful videos about sex and sex differences, and some mishigas by a couple of scientists December 4, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos December 4, 2022
- Spot the critter! December 4, 2022
- Sunday: Hili dialogue December 4, 2022
- “Wasted on the Way” December 3, 2022
- Robyn Blumner on truth and humanism December 3, 2022
- Caturday felid trifecta: Cougar plays with a swing; black panther and d*g become best friends; cats on stamps; and lagniappe December 3, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos December 3, 2022
- Saturday: Hili dialogue December 3, 2022
- The greatest films of all time: a critics’ poll and a filmmakers’ poll December 2, 2022
- A misguided but abject apology from an Oxford Union student December 2, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos December 2, 2022
- Friday: Hili dialogue December 2, 2022
- RIP, Christine McVie December 1, 2022
- The injurious ruling of the Supreme Court on guns December 1, 2022
- Wonderful documentary on the world’s woodpeckers December 1, 2022
- A New Zealand teacher writes the government protesting a proposed curriculum asserting the equality of indigenous “ways of knowing” with science December 1, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos December 1, 2022
- Thursday: Hili dialogue December 1, 2022
- Christine McVie died November 30, 2022
- How people found this site November 30, 2022
- Antioch College fires a grad student November 30, 2022
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Reith lecture on literature and freedom of speech November 30, 2022
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Qatar November 30, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 30, 2022
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue November 30, 2022
- It’s official: England and Wales are no longer Christian countries November 29, 2022
- Ideology keeps sticking its nose into science: An essay by Anna Krylov November 29, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 29, 2022
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue November 29, 2022
- “Jews Don’t Count”: David Baddiel’s movie on Progressive anti-Semitism November 28, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 28, 2022
- Monday: Hili dialogue November 28, 2022
- Two religions collide: Cambridge student preacher causes row by suggesting that Jesus was a transsexual male November 27, 2022
- The ideologues: why we can’t use statistics any more November 27, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 27, 2022
- Sunday: Hili dialogue November 27, 2022
- Caturday felid reveal: Here’s the cat! November 26, 2022
- MIT tells prospective faculty how to write a successful diversity statement November 26, 2022
- Caturday extra: Spot the cat! November 26, 2022
- Caturday felid trifecta: Campus cares for its feral moggies; Hemingway’s polydactylous cats survive Hurricane Ian; a refugee girl from Romania gets her cat back after an arduous rescue; and lagniappe November 26, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 26, 2022
- Saturday: Hili dialogue November 26, 2022
- One Love November 25, 2022
- U Mass Boston drafts a new mission statement designed to both compel and chill speech November 25, 2022
- First report of “referential gesturing” in any animal other than humans November 25, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 25, 2022
- Friday: Hili dialogue November 25, 2022
- The Botany Pond renovation November 24, 2022
- Thursday: Hili dialogue November 24, 2022
- Oops! And a discussion thread November 23, 2022
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ footie November 23, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 23, 2022
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue November 23, 2022
- A conversation between Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bari Weiss on the relationship between blacks and Jews November 22, 2022
- Our College Dean responds to threats and calls for cancellation of a class on the “Problem of Whiteness” November 22, 2022
- A brave woman stands up against the infiltration of “progressive” ideology into psychotherapy November 22, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 22, 2022
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue November 22, 2022
- True facts about tarantulas November 21, 2022
- A long and pretty objective discussion of trans issues at Reuters November 21, 2022
- Content warnings to the max: Princeton drama jumps the shark November 21, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 21, 2022
- Monday: Hili dialogue November 21, 2022
- The American Bar Association decides to ditch law-school requirements for standardized tests November 20, 2022
- Sabine Hossenfelder on consciousness and the collapse of the wave function November 20, 2022
- Law prof Jeannie Suk Gersen on the Supreme Court’s affirmative action hearing, and how Harvard and other schools will evade its ruling November 20, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 20, 2022
- Sunday: Hili dialogue November 20, 2022
- The Fine Tuning argument for God: a selection of refutations (and a few supporters) November 19, 2022
- ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio attacks gay marriage—and marriage in general November 19, 2022
- Caturday felid trifecta: The case for cats; woman claim she’s a cat trapped in a woman’s body; 101-year-old woman adopts agéd shelter cat; and lagniappe November 19, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 19, 2022
- Saturday: Hili dialogue November 19, 2022
- Elizabeth Holmes sentencing: livestream coverage November 18, 2022
- Yale and Harvard Law Schools withdraw from prestigious ranking system November 18, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 18, 2022
- Friday: Hili dialogue November 18, 2022
- How to write an anti-racist tenure or promotion letter November 17, 2022
- Evolution falls on hard times in Turkey November 17, 2022
- FFRF further expands mission to disability rights, seen as a church-state issue involving “Christian nationalist ideology” November 17, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 17, 2022
- Thursday: Hili dialogue November 17, 2022
- The best three “modern” Broadway songs November 16, 2022
- Man bites dog!: Congressman Jared Huffman declares he’s an atheist November 16, 2022
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ narcissism November 16, 2022
- Stephen Knight on Sean Carroll, Colin Wright, and the binary of sex November 16, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 16, 2022
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue November 16, 2022
- A new Beatles video: “I’m only sleeping” November 15, 2022
- Artemis-1 launch early tomorrow morning (and I mean EARLY) November 15, 2022
- NYT questions the safety of puberty blockers November 15, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 15, 2022
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue November 15, 2022
- “All the things you are” November 14, 2022
- Freddie DeBoer muses on the election November 14, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 14, 2022
- Monday: Hili dialogue November 14, 2022
- Pinker on evolutionary (and nonevolutionary) psychology, and a general observation on evo-psych November 13, 2022
- Some videos of the Academic Freedom Conference up November 13, 2022
- A disturbing tale of R. Crumb vs. fragile students, and the demonization of a professor November 13, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 13, 2022
- Sunday: Hili dialogue, Senate retention edition November 13, 2022
- FFRF unwisely battles for the right of transsexual women (medically treated or not) to compete in women’s sports November 12, 2022
- Caturday felid trifecta: Armorer for cats; why cats ignore you; cat wins award for “most bizarre insurance claim” November 12, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 12, 2022
- Saturday: Hili dialogue (and Mietek with Leon) November 12, 2022
- The cancellation of Carole Hooven November 11, 2022
- Slight disaster: draft posts disappeared November 11, 2022
- Friday: Hili dialogue November 11, 2022
- New Zealand midwives’ organization deep-sixes words like “mother” and “woman” November 10, 2022
- Scientific American goes defensive; tries to pretend that every social justice screed is a “science story” November 10, 2022
- Spot the fake fact November 10, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 10, 2022
- Thursday: Hili dialogue November 10, 2022
- Shamanism makes comeback in New Zealand November 9, 2022
- “The Problem of Whiteness” course postponed (but not canceled) at my university November 9, 2022
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ rubbed-off guilt November 9, 2022
- The good news: the “Red Wave” of GOP victories didn’t materialize, though the GOP will likely control the House; Senate still up for grabs November 9, 2022
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue November 9, 2022
- Americans’ abysmal ability to estimate group sizes November 8, 2022
- Children’s book looking for a home November 8, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 8, 2022
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue November 8, 2022
- Luana Maroja on the ideological threat to biology November 7, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos November 7, 2022
- Monday: Hili dialogue November 7, 2022
- The sterile and expensive Denver International Airport November 6, 2022
- A reader’s essay on why religion is at best superfluous November 6, 2022
- Maher on the downfall of the Democrats November 6, 2022
- Sunday: Hili dialogue November 6, 2022
- Hili dialogue (and Academic Freedom Conference) November 5, 2022
- Friday: Hili dialogue November 4, 2022
- I have landed (in Palo Alto) November 3, 2022
- An Academic Freedom Declaration November 3, 2022
- Thursday: Hili dialogue and discussion thread November 3, 2022
- Debate the way it should be November 2, 2022
- Scientific American continues to push ideology alongside science November 2, 2022
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ safe space November 2, 2022
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue November 2, 2022
- Richard Dawkins interviewed in NZ on Māori “ways of knowing”, is grossly misunderstood November 1, 2022
- Rick Beato analyzes Karen Carpenter November 1, 2022
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue November 1, 2022
- The affirmative-action hearings at the Supreme Court October 31, 2022
- A hike in the Sierra foothills October 31, 2022
- Monday: Hili dialogue October 31, 2022
- Maher on Halloween costumes October 30, 2022
- In which I go to In-N-Out Burger October 30, 2022
- Travels: Davis, California October 30, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos October 30, 2022
- Sunday: Hili dialogue October 30, 2022
- Germans and Brits try to eliminate gendered nouns in the German language October 29, 2022
- Caturday felid trifecta: Why your cat sheds; this year’s Supreme Cat Show, best Halloween cat costumes, and lagniappe October 29, 2022
- Saturday: Hili dialogue October 29, 2022
- I have landed! October 28, 2022
- Friday: Hili dialogue October 28, 2022
- New York Times touts ghosts October 27, 2022
- A note on the Stanford Academic Freedom Conference October 27, 2022
- Readers’s wildlife photos October 27, 2022
- Thursday: Hili dialogue October 27, 2022
- Is “sex” socially constructed? October 26, 2022
- A critique of Yuval Harari’s popular-science writing October 26, 2022
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ nonsense October 26, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos October 26, 2022
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue October 26, 2022
- Nature Ecology & Evolution buys into “indigenous fact claims are always right” October 25, 2022
- National Health Service ends “gender-affirming care,” replaces with “holistic and appropriate” care October 25, 2022
- RIP Robert Nola October 25, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos October 25, 2022
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue October 25, 2022
- Livestream of upcoming academic freedom conference October 24, 2022
- Most Americans don’t think race should be an important factor in college admission decisions, but most favor racial diversity as good thing yet back a Supreme Court ruling banning affirmative action October 24, 2022
- A sensible way to reconcile Mātauranga Māori and science October 24, 2022
- Reader’s wildlife photos October 24, 2022
- Monday: Hili dialogue October 24, 2022
- What’s the right adjective: “gay” or “queer”? Pamela Paul unpacks David Sedaris October 23, 2022
- Advocates of Mātauranga Māori request over $100 million dollars, part of which may be for woo October 23, 2022
- Readers’ wildlife photos October 23, 2022
- Sunday: Hili dialogue October 23, 2022
- Shakira’s new music video October 22, 2022
The Archive
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