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October 2026

1. 26 OctSeeking God in Science part 13: The Theory of Ontological Categories
2. 4 OctSeeking God in Science part 12: A clean-sheet introduction to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory (part 1 of n)

September 2026

1. 24 SepSeeking God in Science, part 11b: Time (part 2 of 2)
2. 20 SepA relativity visualization
3. 10 SepSeeking God in Science, part 11: Time (part 1 of 2)

August 2026

1. 20 AugSeeking God in Science part 10.5: The Mind-Body Problem (Take 2)
2. 16 AugUS Invites China to Invade Taiwan

July 2026

1. 16 JulSeeking God in science part 10: The Mind-Body Problem
2. 1 JulBirthright Citizenship Hangs on by its Fingernails

June 2026

1. 16 JunPSA: I'm doing another debate tonight
2. 4 JunSeeking God in Science part 9: Creating Information

May 2026

1. 17 MaySeeking God in Science part 8: Caring
2. 11 MaySeeking God in Science part 7: Information, Knowledge and Belief
3. 3 MayBig News: The Plausibility of Abiogenesis Has Been Experimentally Demonstrated

April 2026

1. 25 AprSeeking God in Science part 6: Systems and States
2. 13 AprSeeking God in Science part 5: Testimony

March 2026

1. 31 MarReflections on dying
2. 19 MarSeeking God in Science part 4: Chairness
3. 16 MarField report from Maui
4. 15 MarWe interrupt this post series to bring you an important weather update
5. 4 MarDebate Post-Mortem

February 2026

1. 25 FebSeeking God in Science part 3: Things Exist
2. 15 FebSeeking God in Science Part 2: Pits and Pratfalls in the Meanings of Words
3. 10 FebSeeking God in Science: First Steps

January 2026

1. 11 JanTrump defends the people's right to protest — as long as they live in Iran and not the U.S.

December 2025

1. 30 DecThe Pro-life Position Leads to Dark Places

September 2025

1. 17 SepI will remember Charlie Kirk

June 2025

1. 17 JunSigh, here we go again.
2. 15 JunIf the Ten Commandments Reflected Reality
3. 8 JunHating Trump More Won't Make Things Better

May 2025

1. 10 MayNo, Science is Not Just Another Religion

February 2025

1. 10 FebWhat did you expect? Of course the Trump administration will defy court orders!

January 2025

1. 19 JanAn Open Letter to Democratic Candidates and Organizations
2. 12 JanI am (not) a Failure: Lessons Learned From Six (and a half) Failed Startup Attempts

December 2024

1. 26 DecA Reply to Don Geddis
2. 24 DecI have failed. Now what?

November 2024

1. 6 NovThe Bright Side of the Election Results
2. 2 NovWhat scares me about a second Trump administration

October 2024

1. 29 OctRon Prognosticates: Trump is Going to Win
2. 16 OctHave Republicans Ever Actually Listened to the Lyrics of YMCA?

September 2024

1. 20 SepYes, you can have exactly-once delivery
2. 12 SepInformation, Data, and Knowledge

August 2024

1. 15 AugThe Trouble With Big Numbers

July 2024

1. 29 JulComputation: Math and the Church-Turing Thesis
2. 20 JulSorry about the radio silence

May 2024

1. 31 MayMy (not) Twitter Account Got Hacked
2. 31 MayDonald Trump is a Convicted Felon
3. 27 MayTruth, Math, and Models
4. 18 MayA Scientific Theory of Truth
5. 5 MayLanguages are theories: debunking the new riddle of induction and flat-eartherism

April 2024

1. 29 AprThe Scientific Method part 5: Illusions, Delusions, and Dreams
2. 24 AprThe Scientific Method, part 4: Eating elephants and The Big News Principle
3. 21 AprThree Myths About the Scientific Method
4. 1 AprFeynman, bullies, and invisible pink unicorns

March 2024

1. 17 MarA Clean-Sheet Introduction to the Scientific Method

February 2024

1. 4 FebWhy I want to repeal the Second Amendment

November 2023

1. 23 NovWhy I Don't Believe in Jesus
2. 11 NovWhy I Don't Believe in God

May 2023

1. 2 MayHow to explain cardinals vs ordinals to a six-year-old

April 2023

1. 24 AprAll together now: the second amendment must be repealed
2. 14 AprBitcoin's value proposition: screwup postmortem
3. 12 AprA systematic critique of Bitcoin's value proposition

March 2023

1. 4 MarUncomputable things: Chaitin's constant, Busy Beavers, and Kolmogorov complexity

January 2023

1. 28 JanLisping at JPL Revisited
2. 25 JanAn intuitive counterexample to the Axiom of Choice: followup
3. 23 JanAn intutive counterexample to the axiom of choice
4. 12 JanI am offended by Muslims being offended

November 2022

1. 22 NovTen things I grew up believing about the United States that turn out not to be true
2. 14 NovSend in the clowns
3. 12 NovRon descends from the mountain

April 2022

1. 23 AprSomeone is impersonating me on Facebook

September 2021

1. 1 SepGame over for Roe v. Wade -- and constitutional rights

June 2021

1. 3 JunConservatives Can't Handle the Truth

May 2021

1. 5 MayRepublican Hypocrisy Watch: Cancel Culture is Bad -- Unless it's Republicans Doing the Cancelling

March 2021

1. 23 MarRepeal the Second Amendment

February 2021

1. 28 FebRon's Commandments

January 2021

1. 13 JanPSA: I'm debating Matt Slick tonight
2. 10 JanThe rats are finally begining to flee the SS Trump
3. 10 JanArnold Schwarzenegger compares the Capitol attack to Kristallnacht
4. 10 JanThe Capitol attack was not the beginning, and it won't be the end
5. 10 JanTrump and the Reverse Cargo Cult
6. 10 JanRon prognosticates: Trump will pardon the capitol rioters
7. 8 JanFaith and Insurrection
8. 7 JanMy take on yesterday's insurrection

November 2020

1. 8 NovI'm proud to be an American again

September 2020

1. 22 SepCan facts be racist?
2. 19 SepGame over for the USA
3. 9 SepThis is what the apocalypse looks like

August 2020

1. 24 AugThey knew. They still know.
2. 24 AugRepublicans officially endorse a Trump dictatorship
3. 19 AugHere we go again
4. 17 AugIrit Gat, Ph.D. 25 November 1966 - 11 August 2020

July 2020

1. 28 JulThe insidious problem of racism
2. 26 JulAbortion restrictions result in more abortions
3. 8 JulGame over for Hong Kong
4. 6 JulMark your calendars: I am debating Ken Hovind on July 9

June 2020

1. 30 JunI Will Remember Ricky Ray Rector

May 2020

1. 25 MayA review of John Sanford's "Genetic Entropy"
2. 11 MayWilliam Barr's debasement of the Justice Department
3. 9 MayWeek-end Republican hypocrisy round-up

April 2020

1. 28 AprFox news is not conservative enough for Donald Trump
2. 17 AprNo, Fox News, the First Amendment does not protect false speech
3. 15 AprTrump advisor Peter Navarro gets owned by 60 Minutes's Bill Whittaker
4. 14 AprThings must really be getting desperate
5. 12 AprThe "very stable genius" is no match for the corona virus
6. 9 AprDon't take too much comfort from the stock market rally
7. 5 AprWhen the going gets tough, the Trumps go golfing
8. 1 AprA Modest Proposal

March 2020

1. 27 MarWe're number one
2. 20 MarIf you only read one thing about the Corona Virus, make it this
3. 18 MarDon't count on corona virus being seasonal
4. 18 MarAtlantic Monthly: The Gaslighting Vaccine
5. 16 MarFedex: when it absolute positively has to get lost twice in a row
6. 14 MarDon't let conservatives gaslight you: the chaos to come is Trump's fault
7. 13 MarA glimmer of hope
8. 13 MarTrump administration blocks states from using Medicaid to respond to coronavirus crisis

February 2020

1. 16 FebThe cruise that went worng

October 2019

1. 29 OctThoughts on a power outage: what worked, what didn't
2. 23 OctJoe Rogan interviews Ed Snowden
3. 22 OctNo, Mr. Graham, this is not a lynching in any sense
4. 20 OctWilliam Barr echoes Adolf Hitler, with "militant secularists" playing the role of the Jews
5. 6 OctWhatever happened to "no collusion"?

August 2019

1. 22 AugFedex: three months and counting

July 2019

1. 29 JulFedex: when it absolutely, positively has to get stuck in the system for over two months
2. 8 JulThe Trouble with Many Worlds

June 2019

1. 22 JunStill think climate change is a hoax?
2. 8 JunHow do we know that quantum randomness is really random?
3. 6 JunQuantum transitions take time. This is not news.

May 2019

1. 25 MayAn open letter to Christian supporters of Donald Trump
2. 19 MayIf a fetus is a person...
3. 18 MayThe mother of all buyer's remorse

April 2019

1. 11 AprThe Impossible Burger is going to change the world
2. 7 AprWe interrupt this blog to bring you a little eureka moment
3. 7 AprSecularity and teleology
4. 7 AprWhy you should care about what a YEC thinks
5. 5 Apr[Crickets chirping]

March 2019

1. 31 MarCan a Scientist find common ground with a young-earth creationist?
2. 31 MarAn atheist and a YEC walk into a bar...
3. 27 MarSomething doesn't smell right about the Mueller report
4. 12 MarThere and Back Again

January 2019

1. 22 JanAre you a Turing Machine?
2. 8 JanI watched Bird Box so you don't have to

December 2018

1. 18 DecMailChimp deleted my account with no warning or notification
2. 10 DecTrump lies so much that WaPo had to invent a new category

November 2018

1. 20 NovCan Jeff Flake really be this naive?
2. 20 NovLock her up!
3. 20 NovGod doesn't have very good aim
4. 12 NovWithout Evidence
5. 5 NovIf a member of your own party calls you a "racist pig", maybe you actually are a racist pig

October 2018

1. 30 OctDon't say I didn't warn you

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