- Readers’ wildlife photos March 31, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue March 31, 2025
- Duckapalooza: Many photos and videos of our Botany Pond mallards March 30, 2025
- Eric Clapton is 80 March 30, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 30, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue March 30, 2025
- Bill Maher’s latest bit March 29, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Eighteen celebrities who love cats; cats going up stairs; the American Museum of the House Cat; and lagniappe March 29, 2025
- Reader’s wildlife videos March 29, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue March 29, 2025
- Books to read March 28, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 28, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue March 28, 2025
- ZeFrank: True facts about the duck March 27, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 27, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue March 27, 2025
- New finding: Iguanas rafted more than 8000 km from North America to Fiji March 26, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ iniquity March 26, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 26, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue March 26, 2025
- Facial surgeons wanted in New Zealand, must be intimately familiar with all things Māori March 25, 2025
- Botany Pond ducks (with videos) March 25, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue March 25, 2025
- Nature touts indigenous knowledge as coequal to “Western” (aka “modern”) science March 24, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 24, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue March 24, 2025
- Bill Maher: Why doesn’t Trump cut “the biggest bloat of all”? March 23, 2025
- Nature endorses DEI big time March 23, 2025
- The Society for the Study of Evolution quits Twitter, implying that the site is “unethical”, irresponsible, and “not inclusive”. What they mean is “we don’t like Musk.” March 23, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 23, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue March 23, 2025
- People weigh in on the meaning of life March 22, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: The Kiffness; “Darwin’s Cats”: a citizen-science initiative; disco cat ballet ; and lagniappe March 22, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife videos March 22, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue March 22, 2025
- Misleading letter from three scientific societies, arguing that sex is a spectrum in all species, remains online March 21, 2025
- Shakespeare gets decolonized March 21, 2025
- Reader’s wildlife photos, PCC(E) duck edition March 21, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue March 21, 2025
- Biological sex erased from official data in the UK with harmful consequences March 20, 2025
- Oldest known Australian hominin fossils to be reburied March 20, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 20, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue March 20, 2025
- It’s Spring! March 20, 2025
- NBC News gets the woolly mammoth story badly wrong March 19, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ The King March 19, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 19, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue March 19, 2025
- University of Chicago updates equal-opportunity statement for job ads March 18, 2025
- The Atlantic: A history of protest at Columbia University March 18, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 18, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue March 18, 2025
- Bill Maher’s latest bit: “Hookers are having a moment” March 17, 2025
- Auckland Uni Law School teacher: we must decolonize the universities and undo the damage of the “colonial project” March 17, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 17, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue March 17, 2025
- A paper beyond belief March 16, 2025
- Botany Pond has ducks! March 16, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 16, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue March 16, 2025
- Harvard Law School students vote to divest, boycott, and sanction Israel; University of Chicago investigated for racial discrimination March 15, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Mischief, the perambulating moggy; cat in love with Amazon delivery man; reunion of cat and staff after L.A. wildfires; March 15, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 15, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue March 15, 2025
- Hitchens: Did Jesus exist? March 14, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 14, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue March 14, 2025
- Dawkins and Pinker discuss evolution March 13, 2025
- My Quillette review of Francis Collins’s new book on healing America with science, truth, trust, and faith March 13, 2025
- No readers’ wildlife today March 13, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue March 13, 2025
- Coyne’s Rule of Conversation March 12, 2025
- Guest post: Shuttle astronauts to return to Earth at last (?) March 12, 2025
- Should Mahmoud Khalil be deported? March 12, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Safe Spaces March 12, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 12, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue March 12, 2025
- It’s protest season again March 11, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 11, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue March 11, 2025
- Bill Maher presents new posters March 10, 2025
- NYT and Bloomberg refuse mention high-quality study showing that DEI training has counterproductive results March 10, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 10, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue March 10, 2025
- A 14-year-old human calculator March 9, 2025
- The WaPo describes (and distorts) a big “culture war” in New Zealand March 9, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 9, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue March 9, 2025
- Bill Maher’s New Rule: Guilt by Civilization March 8, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Do cats recognize themselves in a mirror?: cat helps owner with ice-water therapy, “Flow” cat shows up at Oscars; and lagniaippe March 8, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 8, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue March 8, 2025
- The difference between scholarship and political activism March 7, 2025
- The exchange of letters to the tri-Societies continues; they largely concede our points March 7, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 7, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue March 7, 2025
- Gavin Newsom breaks with “progressive” Democrats, proclaims that trans-identified men competing in women’s sports is “unfair” March 6, 2025
- More dreadful science journalistm: The “new” Scientific American touts the Woolly Mouse as a precursor of the Woolly Mammoth; misses all the real problems March 6, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 6, 2025
- Thursday Hili dialogue March 6, 2025
- Now they’re trying to create “woolly mice” on the road to the woolly mammoth March 5, 2025
- Should we ditch the word “gender”? March 5, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ imitation March 5, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 5, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue March 5, 2025
- This week’s Bill Maher clip March 4, 2025
- Oy! Women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Barnard March 4, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife videos March 4, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue March 4, 2025
- Gender-altering surgery raises the incidence of mental illness in those with gender dysphoria March 3, 2025
- Is theology of any use? March 3, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 3, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue March 3, 2025
- Alex Byrne on sex, the history of its definition, and assorted misconceptions March 2, 2025
- A misleading case of “trauma inherited across generations” March 2, 2025
- Our updated letter to the three ecology/evolution societies who claimed that sex was a spectrum March 2, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 2, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue March 2, 2025
- “A Day of American Infamy” March 1, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Cat art; cats through art history; misunderstandings about cats; and lagniappe (two!) March 1, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos March 1, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue March 1, 2025
- “Rockin’ Chair” February 28, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 28, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue February 28, 2025
- Douthat again—in The New Yorker February 27, 2025
- Upcoming talk and new book on ideology and science February 27, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 27, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue February 27, 2025
- After a hiatus, Scientific American once again shows signs of wokeness, dissing the binary nature of biological sex February 26, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the Qur’an February 26, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 26, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogoue February 26, 2025
- More tacit recognition of two sexes in humans February 25, 2025
- Bill Maher vs. Jon Lovett on trans rights February 25, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 25, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue February 25, 2025
- Nature Human Behavior is back, this time touting “allyship” February 24, 2025
- Konstantin Kisin: “The tide is turning” February 24, 2025
- Still collecting signatures on the tri-societies letter February 24, 2025
- No readers’ wildlife today February 24, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue February 24, 2025
- Beyoncé wins Grammy for album of the year, despite her so-so music February 23, 2025
- “Competency standards” for New Zealand pharmacists released: guess what they emphasize February 23, 2025
- The fundamental fallacy of the “sex spectrum” February 23, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 23, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue February 23, 2025
- The forgotten Karla Bonoff February 22, 2025
- Here’s the squirrel! February 22, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: The Kiffness with “Kitty Caught a Mouse; cat bread-delivery service; runaway cat hitches 18-mile train ride ; and lagniappe February 22, 2025
- Spot the squirrel! February 22, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 22, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue February 22, 2025
- Reminder if you want to sign the joint letter to the “tri-societies” presidents February 21, 2025
- Douthat’s still flogging his book; tells us what he really believe in as a pious Catholic February 21, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 21, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue February 21, 2025
- Richard Dawkins on the “tri-societies” fracas on sex (and a call for signatures) February 20, 2025
- From the Boston Globe: Carole Hooven explains the binary nature of sex (and other stuff) February 20, 2025
- The U.S. government’s new definition of sex February 20, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue February 20, 2025
- Four dead hostages, including the Bibas family, handed over to Israel by Hamas February 20, 2025
- Our letter to the three societies on the definition of sex—with signers February 19, 2025
- The AAUP abandons its mission to defend academic freedom February 19, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Catholic math February 19, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue February 19, 2025
- Ross Douthat touts his new book in The Free Press, impugning “believers in belief” because they reject the tenets of religions February 18, 2025
- Richard Dawkins chats with AI about consciousness February 18, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 18, 2025
- Tuesday: Hili dialogue February 18, 2025
- The Atlantic on the government’s attacks on science February 17, 2025
- Most DEI endeavors in higher education are declared illegal February 17, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 17, 2025
- Monday: Hili dialogue February 17, 2025
- Bill Maher’s Latest Rule: Love with AI February 16, 2025
- Hagan Scotten: a person with integrity February 16, 2025
- Douthat on the best argument against God (too much evil), but he argues that God is evidenced also by too much GOOD February 16, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 16, 2025
- Sunday: Hili dialogue February 16, 2025
- A poll of UK scientists shows most agree that sex is binary February 15, 2025
- Caturday felid trifecta: Palmerston moves to Bermuda; Browser the Library Cat keeps his job; The Kiffness with “Sometimes I’m alone”; and lagniappe February 15, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 15, 2025
- Saturday: Hili dialogue February 15, 2025
- The New York Times distorts the situation with the refuted 2010 “arsenic life” paper February 14, 2025
- Apparent independent and multiple evolution of binary sex February 14, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 14, 2025
- Friday: Hili dialogue February 14, 2025
- “I’ll never love this way again” February 13, 2025
- New book argues that Alzheimer’s research is flawed, fraudulent, and incompetent February 13, 2025
- A group letter to the presidents of three evolution/ecology societies objecting to their characterization of sex as a spectrum in humans and all other species February 13, 2025
- Readers’ wildlife photos February 13, 2025
- Thursday: Hili dialogue February 13, 2025
- Thursday Music February 13, 2025
- New SSE announcement touts social justice February 12, 2025
- Ross Douthat continues to use the NY Times to tout his new book on why we we should be religious. But he uses the same tired old arguments. February 12, 2025
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ hypocrisy February 12, 2025
- Darwin Day stuff February 12, 2025
- Wednesday: Hili dialogue February 12, 2025
- Sam Harris and Brian Greene debate religion vs. science, and how to deal with believers February 11, 2025
- The University of Chicago takes an institutional position against the Trump Administration’s slashing of grant monies February 11, 2025
The Archive
June 8, 2014 • 6:26 am