- 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
- Saturday: Hili dialogue August 16, 2025
- The journal Nature calls for “decolonization” of modern science August 15, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 15, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue August 15, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue August 14, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ pedophilia August 13, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 13, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue August 13, 2025
- A discussion revisited: my exchange with Adam Gopnik about science, the humanities, and their ability to produce truth and knowledge August 12, 2025
- Drat! Foiled again! August 12, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 12, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue August 12, 2025
- Changes in orange juice and other foods coming from the FDA, and not for the better August 11, 2025
- Why do academics in the humanities read their papers aloud? August 11, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 11, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue August 11, 2025
- A call to expunge humanities from universities August 10, 2025
- Colossal Biosciences’ new and wonky concept of “de-extinction” won’t work August 10, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 10, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue August 10, 2025
- Lawrence Krauss interviews Carole Hooven August 9, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Underwear-stealing cat in New Zealand; cat saved family from starvation in WWII Leningrad; cat enjoys motorcycle rides; August 9, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 9, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue August 9, 2025
- A funny caricature of some of us troublemakers August 8, 2025
- The Lancet publishes a glowing but deeply misguided review of a book that denies the sex binary, yet the author of the review had previously TOUTED the sex binary August 8, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 8, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue August 8, 2025
- Darwin declared dead again: a paper in a supposedly reputable journal concludes that life could not have originated by evolutionary processes August 7, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 7, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue August 7, 2025
- Rare video of the Scopes “Monkey Trial” August 6, 2025
- The parallels between sex and species, and why the gametic concept of sex is the most useful August 6, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Justice August 6, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 6, 2025
- Wedneday: Hili dialogue August 6, 2025
- Gametic oppression? August 5, 2025
- To the Arctic: my trip, part 1 August 5, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue August 5, 2025
- Nicholas Christakis interviewed about attacks on science August 4, 2025
- Coleman Hughes on Gaza August 4, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 4, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue August 4, 2025
- Is there “truth” to be found in the humanities? August 3, 2025
- Here’s the fourth cat! August 3, 2025
- eBay sells prohibited items made from endangered species August 3, 2025
- Find the fourth cat August 3, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 3, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue August 3, 2025
- Quillette drags irrelevant issues into the Scopes trial and the teaching of evolution August 2, 2025
- Caturday felid quadrifecta: How to meet street cats; why cats should sleep on their left side ; Cat Video Fest; Matt Damon’s Schwarzenegger cat; and lagniappe August 2, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 2, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue August 2, 2025
- Science-Based Medicine has its knickers in a twist about Krauss’s new edited volume—without having read it August 1, 2025
- Saving Ecudadorian land for wildlife (including my frog) August 1, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos August 1, 2025
The Archive
June 8, 2014 • 6:26 am