- Friday: Hili dialogue July 28, 2023
- Sex 2: Dawkins vs. Rose on whether there’s a sex binary July 27, 2023
- Sex 1: The Labour party declares the obvious July 27, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 27, 2023
- Thursday: Hili dialogue July 27, 2023
- Sinéad O’Connor dies at 56 July 26, 2023
- deBoer disses “equal opportunity” July 26, 2023
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ rationality July 26, 2023
- California community colleges go off the rails with DEI July 26, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 26, 2023
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue July 26, 2023
- Another duck update July 25, 2023
- Why did Twitter become “X”? July 25, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 25, 2023
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue July 25, 2023
- The National Science Foundation budgets millions to fight a problem not demonstrated to exist: systemic racism in STEM July 24, 2023
- Could Mātauranga Māori advance quantum physics? July 24, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 24, 2023
- Monday: Hili dialogue July 24, 2023
- Has the Discovery Institute changed its mission? July 23, 2023
- American secondary schools ditch algebra and advanced math requirements in the name of equity July 23, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 23, 2023
- Sunday: Hili dialogue July 23, 2023
- My new college application essay, written by AI in light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision July 22, 2023
- Caturday felid trifecta: excellent cat memes; missing cat found 10 months later in resort hotel; cat meets lookalike cake July 22, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 22, 2023
- Caturday: Hili dialogue July 22, 2023
- Duck update July 21, 2023
- Tony Bennett died July 21, 2023
- Stanford equity dean Tirien Steinbach gets a pink slip after inciting law students to disrupt a speaker July 21, 2023
- Educational psychologist calls for turning chemistry into politics—in a chemistry journal July 21, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 21, 2023
- Friday: Hili dialogue July 21, 2023
- Revisiting an old paper July 20, 2023
- One of New Zealand’s “Satanic Seven” describes efforts to create a free speech policy at the University of Auckland July 20, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 20, 2023
- Thursday: Hili dialogue July 20, 2023
- Our dorm ducks July 19, 2023
- Glenn Loury and Matt Johnson discuss the legacy of Hitchens July 19, 2023
- Is evolutionary biology racist? July 19, 2023
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Revelation July 19, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 19, 2023
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue July 19, 2023
- Readers’ discussion July 18, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 18, 2023
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue July 18, 2023
- The National Academies post a position statement on affirmative action, followed by an email exchange between Steven Pinker and NA President Marcia McNutt July 17, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 17, 2023
- Monday: Hili dialogue July 17, 2023
- An international group of gender-change specialists urges caution for American doctors and therapists July 16, 2023
- Spot the goldfinch! July 16, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 16, 2023
- Sunday: Hili dialogue July 16, 2023
- Here’s the damselfly! July 15, 2023
- The Guardian touts Māori ways of knowing as ways of science July 15, 2023
- Caturday felid trifecta: Temptation Cat Treat commercials; sea cats in tiny hammocks; Bohemian Catsody July 15, 2023
- Spot the damselfly! July 15, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 15, 2023
- Saturday: Hili dialogue July 15, 2023
- Update: the Dorm Ducks July 14, 2023
- UN Human Rights Council votes to ban Qur’an burning July 14, 2023
- Two lists: the best Joni Mitchell songs July 14, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 14, 2023
- Friday: Hili dialogue July 14, 2023
- Problematic positionality statements July 13, 2023
- Indigenous New Zealand “moon school” runs on superstition and astrology July 13, 2023
- FIRE puts ads on television July 13, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 13, 2023
- Thursday: Hili dialogue July 13, 2023
- “Prebunking” the Times’ rehabilitation of Uri Geller July 12, 2023
- Jesus and Mo and selective activism July 12, 2023
- Luana Maroja criticizes the Society for Systematic Biology for hosting a largely ideological Presidential talk July 12, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 12, 2023
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue July 12, 2023
- D. J. Grothe pushes back on the NYT for romanticizing Uri Geller and calling him a “victor” July 11, 2023
- In which I am canceled as a transphobe July 11, 2023
- Article on gender dysphoria retracted, probably for ideological reasons July 11, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 11, 2023
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue July 11, 2023
- Here’s the hermit crab! July 10, 2023
- Criticism of New Zealand’s educational policy, this time from the National Party July 10, 2023
- Still more critique of the PLOS article on women hunting in hunter-gatherer societies July 10, 2023
- Spot the hermit crab! July 10, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 10, 2023
- Monday: Hili dialogue July 10, 2023
- Why we can’t say “pipeline” any longer July 9, 2023
- Conor Friedersdorf on why mandatory diversity statements for academic hires are both wrong and hypocritical July 9, 2023
- Imposing your ideology on nature: Kew Gardens celebrates “queer plants” July 9, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 9, 2023
- Sunday: Hili dialogue July 9, 2023
- Our haul today July 8, 2023
- Our CFI podcast/discussion July 8, 2023
- Caturday felid trifecta: Prisoner rehabilitation through cats; cat glasses; deformed and many-toed kitten gets help; and lagniappe July 8, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 8, 2023
- Saturday: Hili dialogue July 8, 2023
- Another day, another brood July 7, 2023
- The roles of men and women in hunting, revisited July 7, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 7, 2023
- Friday: Hili dialogue July 7, 2023
- David Hillis on speciation July 6, 2023
- BBC reporter commits “blood libel” against Israel, saying that “Israel is happy to kill children” July 6, 2023
- Videocast discussion of the Coyne/Maroja paper this evening July 6, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 6, 2023
- Thursday: Hili dialogue July 6, 2023
- Leaked curriculum proposal shows further degradation of science in New Zealand July 5, 2023
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ The Weight July 5, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 5, 2023
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue July 5, 2023
- John McWhorter: a personal take on affirmative action July 4, 2023
- The patio ducks July 4, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 4, 2023
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue July 4, 2023
- NYT claims that a course on “The Problem of Whiteness” tests the University of Chicago’s commitment to free speech July 3, 2023
- NYT touts religion again: this time it’s Judaism July 3, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 3, 2023
- Monday: Hili dialogue July 3, 2023
- Songs about getting old or dying July 2, 2023
- The anti-Semitism of the Council on American-Islamic Relations July 2, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 2, 2023
- Sunday: Hili dialogue July 2, 2023
- Worst lines in popular songs July 1, 2023
- Another paper touts the advantages of “other ways of knowing” July 1, 2023
- Caturday felid trifecta: Illustrations of famous cat photos; top ten cat jams by The Kiffness; cat-shaped music; and lagniappe July 1, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos July 1, 2023
- Saturday: Hili dialogue July 1, 2023
- New paper: women in hunter gatherer societies hunt more that we thought June 30, 2023
- Academics in New Zealand going down the tubes June 30, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 30, 2023
- Friday: Hili dialogue June 30, 2023
- Supreme Court rules against affirmative action at Harvard and UNC June 29, 2023
- Professor loses job offer at UCLA after grad students object to his views about DEI statements June 29, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 29, 2023
- Thursday: Hili dialogue June 29, 2023
- The smog gets worse in Chicago June 28, 2023
- Chronicle op-ed gives arguments for institutional neutrality June 28, 2023
- Celebrities and influencers call on social media to remove anti-trans “hatred” June 28, 2023
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the Jews June 28, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 28, 2023
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue June 28, 2023
- The Smoky City June 27, 2023
- Our dorm ducks June 27, 2023
- The end of affirmative action June 27, 2023
- Podcast: Ricky Gervais gets the Richard Dawkins award, and the two chat for an hour June 27, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 27, 2023
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue June 27, 2023
- Skeptical Inquirer discussion on our ideology in science paper June 26, 2023
- David French of the NYT on Title IX and women’s sports June 26, 2023
- Have we reached peak woke? June 26, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 26, 2023
- Monday: Hili dialogue June 26, 2023
- Should we cite the scientific work of colleagues who were sexual harassers? June 25, 2023
- Are insects sentient? June 25, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 25, 2023
- Sunday: Hili dialogue June 25, 2023
- “Free Man in Paris” June 24, 2023
- Glenn Loury praises Clarence Thomas June 24, 2023
- Caturday felid trifecta: Airport hires therapy cat to calm nervous travelers; lonely cat song; and which cats climb down trees head first; and lagniappe June 24, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 24, 2023
- Saturday: Hili dialogue June 24, 2023
- Ducks upon ducks June 23, 2023
- The meager results of the fight to decolonize “Western science” in New Zealand June 23, 2023
- Amy the library duck June 23, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 23, 2023
- Friday: Hili dialogue June 23, 2023
- Gerda Klein recounts her liberation by the American Army from a concentration camp June 22, 2023
- The Associated Press’s Orwellian recommendations for journalists June 22, 2023
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ “embryos” June 22, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 22, 2023
- Thursday: Hili dialogue June 22, 2023
- Netflix makes a series of “All the Light We Cannot See” June 21, 2023
- More on eliminating species names derived from human names June 21, 2023
- It’s summer! June 21, 2023
- The vexing problem of “otherkins” June 21, 2023
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue June 21, 2023
- Here’s the cat! June 20, 2023
- Berkeley, DEI, and FIRE June 20, 2023
- Our new paper in Skeptical Inquirer on the ideological subversion of biology June 20, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 20, 2023
- Spot the cat! June 20, 2023
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue June 20, 2023
- DuckCam upgrade June 19, 2023
- Leakey Foundation scientist: orangutan bones tell us that biological sex is a spectrum, not a binary June 19, 2023
- Newly elected majority-Muslim city council in Michigan bans Pride flags June 19, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 19, 2023
- Monday: Hili dialogue June 19, 2023
- Māori reject a giant New Zealand ocean sanctuary proposed by the government June 18, 2023
- Brief review: “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson June 18, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 18, 2023
- Sunday: Hili dialogue June 18, 2023
- A Dumbo octopus June 17, 2023
- Texas and Arkansas deep-six DEI offices in colleges and universities June 17, 2023
- Caturday felids trifecta: Famous cats; how to make your cat love you; NYRB reviews several cat books June 17, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 17, 2023
- Saturday: Hili dialogue June 17, 2023
- More ducks: A new duck cam shows a nesting hen at our Regenstein Library June 16, 2023
- Why universities should remain viewpoint neutral June 16, 2023
- What I did this morning June 16, 2023
- New Zealand’s educational decline June 16, 2023
- Readers’ wildlife photos June 16, 2023
- Friday: Hili dialogue June 16, 2023
The Archive
June 8, 2014 • 6:26 am