Israel is lost
The UN has a few words of condemnation for Israel. The top court for the United Nations on Friday ordered Israel to take measures to prevent and punish direct incitement of genocide in its war in Gaza,...
View ArticleThe illusion of the good old days
You may have heard of the concept of retrospective coronation — the idea of looking back, and well after the fact deciding that a moment or phenomenon was the key event in history, even though at the...
View Article$83.3 million!
Who would have thought it? Having a classless, obnoxious lawyer, ranting on social media, and stomping out of the courtroom during closing arguments is not a winning strategy. Donald Trump lost again...
View ArticleEncouraging news from the young’uns
I may have to give my students extra credit just for being born. They’re all “Gen Z” (personally, I’m not a fan of lumping people into these cohorts), and polls are showing some heartening trends. A...
View ArticleOh no! It’s Monday!
It happened again. Monday rolled around. When will Science master the ability to predict these cataclysmic disasters? Surely there is some cause that we can treat. Vaccinations, maybe? Monday shelters,...
View ArticleKen Ham is sad that other denominations have gotten smarter
Poor man. Ken Ham is being left behind by other creationists, which is of course not his failing, but of all those other faithless Christians. So he’s going to tell us where they are going wrong. Many...
View ArticleThe sad death of a distant drone
I am disappointed to learn that another robot has ended its mission — the Ingenuity helicopter on Mars. Scott Manley breaks down the details. Wow, those are some amazing shots of Martian landscapes,...
View ArticleWe have to talk about this
Minnesota is shrinking? By about a millimeter a year? xkcd I agree. Minnesota should not be squishy, and it’s going to be all we talk about around here. In tangentially related headlines, the...
View ArticleSpider season has come early
We are experiencing unseasonably warm winter weather here in Minnesota — it’s been above freezing for a week, the snow is all melting, I can go outside without a coat, all that stuff you might take for...
View ArticleSam Harris and the disgraceful “philosophy” of bigotry
I made a terrible mistake. I read an essay by that amazing moral “philosopher,” Sam Harris. He hasn’t changed since those days of rationalizing nuking Mecca — he still hates Islam in his slow,...
View ArticleIf you think I’m too mean to Sam Harris…
You should listen to this podcast by NiceMangos in which she tears into multiple episodes of his blog, in particular a joint appearance by Harris and Eric Weinstein. Yikes. The amount of cringe those...
View ArticleAnyone want to go to a concert?
Over the last several years, I’ve gone from “Who the heck is this Taylor Swift person everyone is talking about?” (yeah, I’m old) to “Those songs are catchy, I get it now.” They’re not in regular...
View ArticleElon has gone and done it
Musk has stuck a Neuralink device into a person’s head. His announcement isn’t particularly informative. The first human received an implant from @Neuralinkyesterday and is recovering well.Initial...
View ArticleDawkins is one step away from consulting a dictionary to define biology
Did you know that Richard Dawkins began his career as an ethologist? He got his Ph.D. studying animal behavior under Niko Tinbergen. If you’re an ethologist, you might study things like courtship...
View ArticleI will never see a commercial label that I lo…
Whoa. That is an informative work of art. Why aren’t all labels like that?
View ArticleWho was Gurmail Singh and where are his killers Muawaz Khalid and Nabeel...
GURMAIL Singh was murdered in his own convenience store by a pair of teenagers.His terrifying murder will be examined in the second series of the hit Channel 5 true crime show Murder Scene: The...
View ArticleFoot-fetish hotel manager who raped & sexually assaulted sleeping guests is...
A SICK hotel manager with a foot fetish has been jailed for raping a woman and sexually assaulting guests as they slept.Ahmed Fahmy “exploited” his position at the accommodation in Golders Green, North...
View ArticleMy monster ex cheated & throttled me after I miscarried our twins… I feared...
WHEN terrified Maddie Benson was confronted by a masked intruder in her living room she screamed for her life, believing she was being burgled.It was only when the man shouted her name that she...
View ArticleMy 15-year-old girl was raped by an illegal immigrant – he then fled the...
THE mum of a 15-year-old rape victim slammed authorities after the illegal immigrant who attacked her fled Scotland.And she revealed she was “disgusted” at not being told that sex fiend Marwan Al-Bakr,...
View ArticleShoe fetish killer Christopher Farrow blocked from move to open prison after...
SHOE fetish killer Christopher Farrow will not be moved to an open prison after an intervention by the Justice Secretary. Farrow, 64, got life with a minimum of 18 years in 2000 for the 1994 murder of...
View Article