- The Free Press touts God again, celebrating some intellectuals who have embraced Christianity October 9, 2025
- No readers’ wildlife photos today October 9, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue October 9, 2025
- A panel of authors from the anthology “The War on Science” October 8, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ turnabout October 8, 2025
- Women called “menstruators” in universities October 8, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos October 8, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue October 8, 2025
- University of Auckland set to make mandatory “indigeneity” courses optional, as students considered them a waste of time and money October 7, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife video October 7, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue October 7, 2025
- Critics of Colossal Bioscience’s “de-extinction” efforts get targeted by lawsuits and smears October 6, 2025
- The Free Press is joining Paramount and CBS October 6, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos October 6, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue October 6, 2025
- Science editor of Sunday Times touts book “proving” God’s existence October 5, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos October 5, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue October 5, 2025
- Bill Maher’s New Rules October 4, 2025
- To the Arctic, part 7: A cliff packed with guillemots October 4, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Cat wins a feline race for mayer of Somerville, MA bike path; Kiwi cat burglars; Gymnopédie with cats and friends; and lagniappe October 4, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue October 4, 2025
- Piracy: AI company sued for using material from pirated books to train its generative programs October 3, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos October 3, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue October 3, 2025
- A new song from a “rock god” celebrates the first birthday of Colossal Bioscience’s genetically tweaked grey wolves (aka “dire wolves”) October 2, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos October 2, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue October 2, 2025
- Is civility a fantasy? October 1, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue October 1, 2025
- A visit to Christina’s for ice cream September 30, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Darwin September 30, 2025
- The Humanist Society of Australia withdraws support from Steve Pinker’s book tour September 30, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue September 30, 2025
- Bill Maher’s latest monologues (one of them superb) September 29, 2025
- Cambridge and Boston: more travel photos September 29, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue September 29, 2025
- Here’s the salamander! September 28, 2025
- Spot the salamander! September 28, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue September 28, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Record swim for jaguar; how big cats communicate; cat steals all food from the staff; and lagniappe September 27, 2025
- Richard Dawkins stirs up things again in the Torygraph September 27, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue September 27, 2025
- Matt Ridley discusses our anthology (and the wokeness of science) in The Spectator September 26, 2025
- Carole Hooven in Tablet on binary sex September 26, 2025
- Random photos from Cambridge September 26, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue September 26, 2025
- Teenage math whiz adds 100 4-digit numbers in 30 seconds September 25, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 25, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue September 25, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ morality September 24, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 24, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue September 24, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos: The horrors of the human botfly September 23, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue September 23, 2025
- Several books to read, and a NYT recommendation September 22, 2025
- We’re out of wildlife photos September 22, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue September 22, 2025
- Two bits from Bill Maher’s latest show September 21, 2025
- Fat Bear Week is here! September 21, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue September 21, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Cat leads hikes on the Appalachian Trail; cat memes; why cats eat grass ; and catnip lagniappe September 20, 2025
- To the Arctic, part 6: Ice day September 20, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 20, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue September 20, 2025
- Tiger beetle video for the weekend September 19, 2025
- What would Western art have been like without religion? September 19, 2025
- Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate seat in Texas says that there are six biological sexes September 19, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife videos September 19, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue September 19, 2025
- Colossal claims that dodo “de-extinction” is right around the corner (5-7 years). But at best they’ll get a “faux-doh” September 18, 2025
- Today’s Hili dialogue published prematurely; it’s up now September 18, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 18, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue September 18, 2025
- More unsubstantiated assertions of indigenous “science” in New Zealand September 17, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ hair September 17, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 17, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue September 17, 2025
- Sam Harris: Time to chill September 16, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 16, 2025
- Robert Redford died September 16, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue September 16, 2025
- Bill Maher: The price of free speech (clearly “offense”) September 15, 2025
- NYT launches column apparently touting religion and spirituality, thin on “nonbelief” September 15, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 15, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue September 15, 2025
- Here’s the viper! September 14, 2025
- Elliott Abrams: We’ll never have a Palestinian state September 14, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 14, 2025
- Spot the viper! September 14, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue September 14, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Cats that are “major moods”; the death of Browser, a beloved Library Cat; Taylor Swift convinces fiancée’s brother’s kids that cats are not poisonous; and lagniappe September 13, 2025
- To the Arctic, part 5: Landfall and vegetation September 13, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue September 13, 2025
- Jazz duets: Louis Armstrong with Danny Kaye in “When the Saints Go Marching In”, and with Jack Teagarden in “Old Rockin’ Chair” September 12, 2025
- Four degrees of sympathy for Charlie Kirk September 12, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 12, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue September 12, 2025
- Short (?) review: “Sex is a spectrum” September 11, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 11, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue September 11, 2025
- Les fleurs September 10, 2025
- Bill Maher’s new rule: Cuck the police” September 10, 2025
- Nate Silver on “Blueskyism” September 10, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 10, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Euthyphro September 10, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue September 10, 2025
- Why don’t people talk on the phone anymore? September 9, 2025
- FIRE’s new rankings of American universities and colleges: freedom of speech and expression is in trouble September 9, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 9, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili Dialogue September 9, 2025
- Movie dancing set to Steely Dan September 8, 2025
- Coleman Hughes interviews Ben Shapiro September 8, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 8, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue September 8, 2025
- The Sunday Sermon September 7, 2025
- Duck report September 7, 2025
- Reader’s wildlife photos: John Avise’s farewell September 7, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue September 7, 2025
- A schism between secular organizations September 6, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Why cats get the zoomies after pooping; a real Ceiling Cat; woman dyes cat’s fur for Pride Month; and lagniappe September 6, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 6, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue September 6, 2025
- Words and phrases I detest September 5, 2025
- More on the American Humanist Association’s stand on gender September 5, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 5, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue September 5, 2025
- American Humanist vigorously endorses “affirmative care” with no lower age limit September 4, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 4, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue September 4, 2025
- Harvard v. Trump: Harvard wins! (for now) September 4, 2025
- A review (not mine) of “Sex is a Spectrum” by Agustín Fuentes September 3, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Islamophobia September 3, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 3, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue September 3, 2025
- The journal “Evolution” and its sponsoring society aren’t doing so well . . . . September 2, 2025
- The Atlantic: The decline of higher education September 2, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 2, 2025
- Do not do what I did September 2, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue September 2, 2025
- Here’s the grasshopper! September 1, 2025
- Bill Maher’s report card on the Presidency September 1, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos September 1, 2025
- Spot the grasshopper! September 1, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue September 1, 2025
- Oliver! August 31, 2025
- U.S. denies visa to Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas (and other Palestinians) ahead of UN meeting August 31, 2025
- The problems of grade inflation August 31, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 31, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue August 31, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: The smartest cat breeds; a bizarre cat museum in North Carolina; Mittens the deaf Vancouver beach cat; and lagniappe August 30, 2025
- To the Arctic, part 4. Walruses and icebergs August 30, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue August 30, 2025
- Science conundrum of the day: why do we need to urinate when we hear running water? August 29, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 29, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue August 29, 2025
- Latest duck report August 28, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 28, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue August 28, 2025
- Maarten Boudry’s job at the University of Ghent endangered because he has “Zionist-tinged opinions” August 27, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ logic August 27, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 27, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue August 27, 2025
- Bill Maher: Elections are won on the margins August 26, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 26, 2025
- Hazel and Dolores at the pond August 26, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue August 26, 2025
- The two hen friends in Botany Pond: who are they? August 25, 2025
- Maarten Boudry defends our anthology August 25, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 25, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue August 25, 2025
- Hazel, our new Botany Pond hen August 24, 2025
- Triggernometry grills Benjamin Netanyahu August 24, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 24, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue August 24, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: How to know that your cat really loves you; stray mother with six kittens finds forever home; Czech zoo has four Barbary lion cubs; and lagniappe August 23, 2025
- To the Arctic, Part 3. A glacier and its offspring August 23, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue August 23, 2025
- There’s a duck in Botany Pond! August 22, 2025
- Two Triggernometry videos on the war in Gaza August 22, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 22, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue August 22, 2025
- Sex variation in birds, with Emma Hilton’s analysis August 21, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 21, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue August 21, 2025
- Bill Maher: Latest “new rule” on timorous Democrats August 20, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ perfection August 20, 2025
- Scientific American reverts to unscientific wokeness August 20, 2025
- A ducky encounter in Lake Michigan! August 20, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 20, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue August 20, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 19, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue August 19, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 18, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue August 18, 2025
- What to do about Gaza? August 17, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 17, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue August 17, 2025
- Caturday felid trifects: Why cats hate water; cats confuse reasoning; the Acro-Cats’ and lagniappe August 16, 2025
- To the Arctic, part 2: The ship, its amenities, and its food August 16, 2025
The Archive
June 8, 2014 • 6:26 am