2010
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December 2010
- The most important cat photos and videos of 2010
- Disclaimer
- Best movie quotes of all time
- Happy new year
- Beautiful photos from National Geographic
- Birthday boots
- Land of the free—and unequal
- So you think you have snow?
- There’s plenty of time for evolution
- Eric MacDonald haz a blog
- Das Tigerspiel im Schnee
- Kitteh contest entry: Calista
- Unintelligent design
- U of C doc touts NOMA
- American universities violate the First Amendment
- Zomg
- Review: The Warmth of Other Suns (and a note on Bomber County)
- Holy Ignorance, a book you might want to read
- Do academics need iPads?
- Holiday Caturday: the best Christmas gift (if you can wrap it)
- Yeats
- Christmas music
- Josh Rosenau’s strange attitude toward evidence
- 2010’s new species
- Kitteh contest entry: Basil
- I’ve never understood the logic, either
- Jupiter!
- Ruse: The gift that keeps on gibbering
- Foul-weather footwear
- The 100 most beautiful English words
- The paws that refresh
- Is toy use sex-specific?: gender differences in use of sticks by chimpanzees
- Tonsorial discrimination
- New genes arise quickly
- Kitteh contest: another entry
- An experimental evolutionist replies to Behe
- Rosenhouse explodes Ruse’s Darwinian explanation of original sin and defense of theology as taffy
- New Gallup poll: America still creationist (surprise!)
- Dover Day
- The Gaskell affair
- The “don’t ask, don’t tell” vote
- Ricky Gervais: why I’m an atheist
- Caturday felids: puss ‘n’ Buddhists
- Wines for the week
- “Rock star of science” hurts science
- Winter is icumin in
- Barnes and Noble: best nonfiction of 2010
- Bound to be awesome
- Eric MacDonald reviews Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction
- Sophisticated theology: rabbi admits there’s no proof of God
- Dipteran of the week
- Wednesday felid!
- A whistling caterpillar
- Casey Luskin distorts Behe’s paper
- Boudry et al. on irreducible complexity
- IDers already distorting Behe’s new paper
- Meteor shower tonight
- Dances with robots
- Behe’s new paper
- Hitchens on Beck and the Tea Party
- Kitteh contest winners!
- Kitteh contest winners: runner-up #2
- Dawkins writes his father’s obituary
- Kitteh contest: grand prize winner!
- The “decline effect”: can we demonstrate anything in science?
- Terrible hairy fly and other beasts
- Holiday gift suggestions
- The scientists’ war on Republicans
- Terrible hairy fly rediscovered
- “Reinforcement” and the origin of species
- Footwear for a kickass lab
- The dubious arsenic bacterium
- Of cats and men: old genes give embryos an hourglass figure
- Dawkins’s “hero of 2010”
- Some frogs from Colombia, including the world’s most poisonous vertebrate
- Cat contest update
- Redundant parts
- A remarkable “flying” snake
- Caturday felid: lions
- Republicans: the party of the rich, privileged, and obstructionist
- Kitteh contest update
- I haz a floo
November 2010
- Bring out your kittehs: contest closing soon!
- Behe gets published
- NCSE becomes BioLogos
- Bogotá: fruits and flowers
- Blackford on “other ways of knowing”
- Caturday felid: cat lapping!
- Reports: Blair-Hitchens debate
- The beakiest bird
- Videos of TB vs. CH debate
- New books on evolution and vertebrates
- Best kitteh ever
- After the fact
- The surreal treehoppers
- Smackdown!: Blair vs. Hitchens
- An appeal for help: is there such a thing as instinct?
- Don’t overdo it!
- Do cheerleaders and rock stars promote science education?
- My awesome operation
- Post-op footwear
- How, and how fast, did the human brain evolve?
- Tuataras in the news
- Pre-op footwear
- Islam in the UK: Jews are pigs and monkeys, gays should be killed
- Bring out your kittehs
- Islam outside the UK: religion of peace?
- Weekday update
- FiveBooks.com: natural history recommendations
- Guardian podcast: is religion a force for good?
- Why is sex good?
- Hasta la proxima, Cartagena
- The NCSE enables more woo
- Dembski-Hitchens debate
- Caturday felid: climbers—kitteh, ibexes, and baboons
- Moar gold!
- What is this bird?
- A final lunch in Colombia
- Do I really have to answer this guy?
- Hybridization and parthenogenesis in whiptail lizards
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Grayling
- Yet another Cartagena lunch: comida costeña
- Keeping the humanities alive
- That lizard was delicious– what kind was it?
- A creditable Cartagena lunch (without lizards)
- Walls: Cartagena
- The instruments of torture
- Hasta la próxima, Bogotá
- A new Anomalocaris mystery
- Harris on MSNBC
- Colombian gold fauna
- Yet another lunch
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Uncle Karl
- The world’s bravest cat
- Uncle Karl runs out of gas
- Wasps: artists or robots?
- Guardian interview with Hitchens
- Science goes to Hollywood– favorite movie scenes, 3
- Mi rana
- Un bocado
- At least 80% of Republicans are morons
- Uncle Karl becomes Mooney
- Almuerzo!
- Dawkins + kitteh = awesome
- Dumb questions online: is there an “impenetrable wall” between humans and other creatures?
- Caturday felid– No. 1, the jaguar
- Caturday felid number 2
- Caturday felid– No.3, the snow leopard
- A Colombian snack
- Science goes to Hollywood– favorite movie scenes, 2
- Dinner in Bogotá
- Science goes to Hollywood– favorite movie scenes, 1
- A lunch for the speakers
- Blackford: moar on scientism
- The physics of kitteh drinking
- It’s the science, stupid.
- Things we never knew: maggots are covered with eyes!
- Science goes to Hollywood– what are your favorites?
- The treats of Colombia
- Medellín, Colombia
- US government opposes gene patenting
- Great literary endings, part 3
- The treats of Colombia
- New Scientist defends bad science
- Blackford on scientism: what questions defeat science?
- Great literary endings, part 2
- Science and morality: a Science Friday discussion
- Carl Zimmer on Unscientific Hollywood
- The best endings in literature
- Caturday felid trifecta: Lynx kittens, Amur leopard cubs, and a cowboy kitten
- My NYT review of What Technology Wants
- Peregrinations
- Hitchens update
- Can New Scientist get any worse on evolution?
- Massimo apologizes
- Greta Christina on The Controversy
- The accommodationist manual of style
- A good book on bad science
- Unhappy meals
- Footwear for a well-dressed Thursday
- Epigenetics kerfuffle
- Election 2010
- Islamic apologetics in a cardiology journal
- What we’re in for
- I haz a priez
- Trouble at Templeton?
- Sean Carroll on the “supernatural”
- God didn’t bless America
- November!
- Carnival of Evolution
- “Bring out your dead”: science identifies ancient plagues
- Halloween fun for Baptists
October 2010
- Scientific evidence for psychic powers?
- A nice book site
- Caturday felids: Happy Halloween!
- Theological catfight!
- The greatest rock song of all time
- Culinary delights of the Lower East Side: The Pickle Guys
- Stenger buried again at HuffPo
- Another kosher treat
- Culinary delights of the Lower East Side: Russ & Daughters
- More on cat genetics
- So many books, so little time
- Dr. Karl still on rampage, claims that theology advances
- Culinary delights of the Lower East Side: Economy Candy
- The evolution of cat coat patterns
- We had a storm
- Halloween is coming
- Culinary delights of the Lower East Side: Yonah Shimmel’s
- Update on Hauser case: some exoneration?
- I’m told to shut up again
- Bad taste ad of the month
- O noes! I iz primitiv filosofur
- October
- Culinary delights of the Lower East Side: Katz’s
- “Science wins because it works”
- Epigenetics: the light and the way?
- Moar evidence for evolution
- The bialy
- Caturday felids: Maru sells out (plus reader bonus)
- Shark jaws
- I get nice letters, too
- No comment
- Moar divine intercession
- Secular ethics classes a success in Oz
- Methodological naturalism: does it exclude the supernatural?
- Footwear for the well-dressed scientist: day 5
- Is depression an evolved adaptation?: envoi
- Footwear for the well-dressed scientist: day 4 (plus contest)
- 115 years of debate about evidence for God
- A new world’s longest cat!
- I knew it
- NYT discusses politics of global warming, ignores facts
- Terry Eagleton pwned again
- Egg-eating snakes
- Footwear for the well-dressed scientist: day 3
- Religion doesn’t make people nice
- This just in: Glenn Beck a moron
- Frans de Waal on the origin of morality—and atheism
- Footwear for the well-dressed scientist: day 2
- Campaign LOLz
- Flushed with victory: Aussie firemen save trapped kitten
- A wrongheaded book review
- Footwear for the well-dressed scientist
- On P.Z. Myers on evidence for a god
- Ten needless deaths
- NY Times report on humanism conference
- Caturday felids: bonus
- I get letters
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo(hler)
- Guess the bones
- Hitchens vs. Hitchens: the brothers debate the viability of a godless civilization
- Christine O’Donnell ducks question about evolution, disses first amendment
- I get email: amateur theodicy
- The late Ernst Mayr speaks
- Videos of L.A. panel discussion on accommodationism
- CfI podcast on accommodationism
- It’s not just species that are going extinct
- A new vontsira discovered!
- Hitchens in Tumortown
- Videos from Copenhagen atheist meetings
- Global warming and the flat earth
- Can there be evidence for God?
- Christine O’Donnell’s new campaign ad
- USA Today strikes back
- The Gnu Atheist symbol
- Peregrinations: Kentucky
- Moar on the Smithsonian’s human evolution exhibit
- Whazzup with the Harris/Wright debate?
- Another religion quiz
- Wright/Harris debate
- L. A. Times report on the Secular Humanism conference
- My USA Today op-ed: Science and religion aren’t friends
- Caturday felids: differently-abled kitteh and Gnucat
- The week’s worst defense of religion
- The bucket list: Angel Falls
- How religious are American professors?
- Secular Humanism conference live-streamed
- New translation of WEIT
- Most lyrical quote ever given to a newspaper
- Mario Vargas Llosa nabs Nobel, nobody nabs my book
- Kitcher versus Dennett: Is New Atheism counterproductive?
- David Koch and the Hall of Human Origins
- More on climate change and the Smithsonian exhibition
- Evolution exhibits and religion
- Wednesday marsupial
- Benson asks: “Who are the strident Gnus?”
- Is there life in the Solar System?
- Is Francis Collins a deist?
- Sam Harris on The Daily Show
- The Hall of Human Origins at the National Museum of Natural History
- Appiah reviews Harris’s The Moral Landscape
- Robert Edwards wins Nobel; nobody wins our contest
- An evolutionist in the Evolution Range
- Vatican decries Nobel Prize
- Where’s Muhammad? Not in the papers!
- The most beautiful girl in the lab
- Dennett: why do atheists know so much about religion?
- Save a life for 50p (or around 75 cents)
- Pinker on evolution on Olbermann
- Caturday felid: Lilou gets a railcard
- Jesus and Mo move over—you’ve got competition
- The rise and fall of Paul Kurtz
- Contest! Guess the Nobel Laureates
- The sound of science
- Force feed the dodo egg
- Times Higher Ed promotes a science-faith lovefest
- Dawkins paperback tour
- Take the atheist quiz!
- Of penicillin and the Incarnation
September 2010
- New Scientist’s third way: neither science nor faith
- The dark side of Buddhism
- Hitchens on Bishop Long
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ moderate Islam
- Is there life on Gliese 581g?
- John Shook “clarifies”
- Moar on Swinburne
- A philosopher says we’re doing it rong
- This is a post about a blog about web science journalism
- Jerry as a Neanderthal
- Francis Collins prays for Hitchens
- Update: Polly the miracle cat
- WEIT at the USNM
- Caturday felid: pastry mimics
- CfI declares war on atheists
- Nobel Laureate retracts two papers
- Peregrinations
- Adult fly mimics ant larva
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Melville
- Krugman on Republican obstructionism
- Parting the Red Sea
- Another one bites the dust
- Moar NOMA
- Screen door cat
- Should science and faith have a chat?
- Today’s picks from the NYT
- Moar poetry
- Let us not pray
- Hitchens and Berlinski debate religion
- What Darwin got wrong
- A religious “education”
- Caturday felids: interspecific love
- Are we still evolving? Part 2
- Giberson excuses child indoctrination
- Dawkins vs. Ratzi
- Cat travel week: home again (lab cats)
- Our new Science paper
- Catholics demand that atheists apologize for Hitler
- Final Friday felid: a miracle cat!
- Cat travel week: Miscellany
- How important is hybridization?
- Uncle Karl on the warpath
- Why does God hide?
- Cat travel week: To Denali in a Beaver
- Our new candidate from Delaware
- Cat travel week: Istanbul
- I get Christian email: more irreducible complexity
- Spirituality: the Great Communicator fails again
- Jackie Evancho, take 3
- Aussie Christians nix ethics classes
- Monday felid: the cats of Mystras
- A book you’ll want to read
- Freedom of what?
- Bonus
- A wonderful novel
- Sean Carroll reviews Hawking
- Giant bubbles on Stinson Beach
- “Scientists of Duke, be humble.”
- G. C. Williams RIP
- Caturday felids: bizarre behaviors
- Dawn
- A lousy paper
- On burning a Qur’an
- For first-time posters
- Apropos
- A marvelously mimetic mollusk
- Does determinism negate moral responsibility?: A survey
- What’s the right way to read the Bible?
- Hitch in Birmingham
- The Guardian tries to pwn Dawkins
- America is going to hell
- NY Times pans Hawking’s book
- Does religion need evidence?
- The evolution of the science/faith debate
- Did evolution give us God?
- Caturday felids: birthday cat + bonus
- A correlation between poverty and religiosity
- Science pushes back theology a bit more
- Carroll explains Hawking
- Colorado paper: P. Z. = Bin Laden
- Friday snaps: Igor Siwanowicz
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Mose: why the universe?
- Chillin’ with the kids
- Hawking: no God behind the Big Bang
- Here we go again
- Hitchens: Topic of Cancer, part 2
- A map of modern science
- Palinoscopy
- Jackie Evancho, part 2
- How they find us
- A response from Shermer
August 2010
- Relevant readings
- Did freedom evolve?
- The amazing shot
- Collins is okay
- I swear I was Egyptian!
- A misguided attack on kin selection
- Michael, we hardly knew ye
- Un bel di
- Caturday felid: spines!
- Hitch and Harris on moderate Islam
- Peregrine Friday: a farewell to falcons
- The First Amendment v. the Ten Commandments
- A new kind of cloud
- Journal: Hauser fabricated data
- Peregrine Thursday
- Darwin wrong—again??
- Peregrine Wednesday
- Should religion get a pass?
- Francis Collins is stunned
- Peregrine Tuesday
- Hang tough, P.Z.
- P.Z. outa the woods
- Who cares if God exists?
- Peregrine week!
- FalconCam
- Dawkins program on UK faith schools
- Are we phalluses?
- Caturday felids: kneading
- Stenger on evolution and accommodationism
- Bad breath fells aphids
- The spirited atheist
- Flash: many Americans are morons
- Harvard dean: Hauser guilty of scientific misconduct
- Pseudocopulation in orchids
- Sex versus sociality: cooperative breeding in birds
- Hitchens: I’d do it over again
- An elusive being
- 2010 Danish national rabbit-hopping championship
- Animal farrago
- Fund, pray, love
- Monday quiz
- Whaddya got?
- Stenger at HuffPo!
- The “mosque” in New York
- DarwinFest videos finally up
- Teh winners!
- Caturday felids: Yodas!
- “Real time” selection in humans
- Harvard investigates Hauser
- Eat, Pray, Love
- Maru wins; prizes on!
- A bit more on Lucy, tools, and meat
- What the faithful call “uncivil”
- Why are animals cute?
- Kitteh wars: the final smackdown—with prizes!
- Did Lucy eat meat?
- Ten year old diva
- Giberson: Math works, ergo Jesus
- Caturday felids: Yodas!
- An Atlantic conversation with Christopher Hitchens
- Poll crashing!
- I haz a prize
- Dr. Dr. Dr. Pigliucci replies
- Dreher: Hitchens’s success has blinded him to Jebus
- Owlcam!
- Another sweating professor: Egginton on free will (again)
- Four museums in three days
- Caturday felids: videos!
- Two “new” masterpieces?
- Hitchens on Anderson Cooper
- What is the sweating professor trying to say?
- Hyperiid amphipods, salps and Alien
- Artificial life and the RNA world
- My debate with Uncle Karl on science and faith
- Topic of Cancer
- God the CEO
- A pity about Jerry Fodor
- For Churchill lovers
- On civility: Rosenhouse pwns Dreher
- Be a biologist!
- Gibersonia
July 2010
- Caturday felid: the missing lynx
- Weiner on immortality
- What do they make?
- We’re doing it rong (again)
- An early felid
- Interview with Hitchens
- Space pix
- Grammar police
- The “free will” experiment
- Vacation reading from Nature
- Gnu atheism
- New York Times to readers: of course you have free will.
- Frogmouths!
- On the incivility of atheists: “Tom Johnson” and Exhibit A
- Caturday felid: Pallas cat
- Why Orwell Matters
- The beast stirs in Lousiana
- Nature Immunology to Francis Collins: You’re not helping
- Big rich new Templeton magazine
- Video of whale pwning yacht
- RIP Daniel Schorr
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Elron
- Baleen whales: a lovely transitional form
- BioLogos gets in bed with the fundies
- For first-time posters
- Biology and free will
- Whale pwns boat
- Why are we different colors?
- 20 parrot tricks in two minutes
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo(oney)
- The periodic table of irrational nonsense
- Guardian summer reading disses Darwin
- The American zoo
- Caturday felids: Japanese blogging cats
- Selective creationists
- New way to reconcile science and faith!
- We suck
- “Relentless attacks” on clergy?
- 4 out of 10 Americans think Jesus will be here soon
- Primate evolution: old fossil, old news?
- Catholic church says ordination of women a grave crime
- The microbes within
- Another jerk sees divine providence in Hitchens’s illness
- Salacious title of the year
- Godawful science reporting: MSNBC says the chicken came before the egg
- On science and faith with Karl Giberson
- Morphing Japanese owl
- Incompatibility
- New survey on science and religion
- Deceptive predatory cat imitates monkey calls
- Three new books say animals have souls, go to heaven
- Viva España!
- Spain takes World Cup, downs Netherlands 1-0
- Caturday felids: ninja-cat-in-the-box and rickrolling
- Nongenetic selection and evolution: flies use bacteria to adapt to parasitic worms
- Germany 3, Uruguay 2
- Two books worth a look
- What does it take to become multicellular?
- Paul picks Spain; I agree
- Friday noms
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo(hler)
- Albert Mohler: faith and science not compatible, sin makes Earth look old
- A Thursday stretch
- What evidence would convince you that a god exists?
- Why do football players swap jerseys?
- El pulpo es correcta: Spain 1, Germany 0
- A bad book about humanzees
- Les écureuils
- How we know the Earth is old
- Netherlands 3, Uruguay 2
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ footie ‘n’ Hitch
- For all American scientists at work
- The problem of warning coloration
- A debate: Is Christian theology true?
- BioLogos has lost it
- David Wolpe on Hitchens
- Speciation in the movies
- Does the best team win the World Cup?
- The World Cup of gluttony
- Caturday felids: birthday cat and somnolent kittehs
- Two reviews of What Darwin Got Wrong
- Ein deutscher Sieg!
- Why God used evolution to create humans. Reason #476: He was incompetent.
- BioLogos: Don’t tell people that Genesis is fiction
- I iz on Twitter
- How many species are there?
- Footy
- Tea Party Jesus
June 2010
- Why eyespots?
- I meet Professor Steve Steve!
- The National Academy goes to the movies
- Michael Ruse: human evolution a big problem for Christians
- Get well, Hitch
- Quote of the week
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Moses
- Sharron Angle: God has a plan
- Special Sunday felid
- Ecklund is framing again
- Blackford on the fundamentalist-atheist “spectrum”
- “For the good of the species”
- The last of the bluefins
- Caturday felid: Trifecta! Squee video, world’s cutest felid, and cat-dyed goggie
- Atheist-bashing at the Evolution meetings
- Oscar the bionic cat
- Accommodationist or faitheist? Templeton will pay you big time!
- Natural selection in humans: the EPAS1 gene at high altitudes
- BioLogos is hurt, really hurt
- Peregrinations: Portland
- Go USA!
- A one-sided “dialogue”
- Oil endagers oil-seep communities
- Were Adam and Eve real?
- NYT reviews Hitch-22
- Caturday felid: The cat came back
- Holiday snaps: art and science in Wales
- Blackford: data give accommodationists no solace
- Report: AAAS panel on science and faith
- Sean Carroll says goodbye
- Different ways of knowing
- Solenodons on the BBC
- Skeletal anatomy of cartoon characters
- The AAAS goes all accommodationist
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Midgley
- A last post on Hitch-22
- WEIT makes longlist for Royal Society Prize for Science Books
- Dog is Not Great
- GOOOOOOOALLLLLLLLLLL(s)! World Cup 2010
- Giberson apologizes for fibbing and stridency
- Hitch versus Prince Charles
- The human genome ten years on (part 2) – it ain’t necessarily so
- Hitch-22: my take
- Caturday felid (with goggie bonus): sympathy, trust, gratitude
- U.S. ties England
- Hawking on faith/science compatibility
- World Cup fever
- My finest hour
- Another day at the museum
- Galileo, the Church, and Apollo 15
- Caturday Felid- spotted lions
- In praise of Springwatch
- The Nation report on Templeton
- Philip Kitcher on science journalism
- More reviews of Hitch-22
- Peregrinations
- Best movies (add yours)
- Hitch-22, a memoir
- Templeton back at the World Science Festival
May 2010
- Did humans evolve to fill a “cognitive niche”?
- The face of NOMA
- Caturday felids: Cool cats
- Steven Weinberg’s Lake Views
- Jesus ‘n Mo ‘n Gould
- Jesus ‘n Mo ‘n Craig
- The new Templeton Prize winner speaks
- The new Templeton Prize winner speaks again!
- The Gulf and Mississippi Delta
- Is depression an adaptation?
- A whole lotta shakin’ going on
- Religious beliefs can be true and false at the same time
- The mysteries of migration
- Grayling on the Dalai Lama
- Gibersonia: who’s befouling the sandbox?
- Karl Giberson: It’s un-American to criticize faith
- Accommodationism du jour: Michael Zimmerman
- Top 10 new species of 2009
- Interview at UFM, Guatemala
- Caturday felids: Cattooes
- The lies of Texas are upon you
- Genetic technology: did scientists play God?
- Trompe l’oil
- Rosenhouse reviews Ecklund
- Natural selection in action
- Rand Paul: race discrimination is just free speech
- I iz in ur interwebz, drawin ur profut
- Scott to grads: Trust your brain
- A real campaign ad
- Brit Hume: “The ocean absorbs a lot”
- Two thumbs up for Last Chance to See
- Blaming the scientists: Giberson pins creationism on atheists, evolutionists
- How important is group selection?
- Giant oarfish caught off Sweden
- Fox news chastizes BP
- Weekend update
- The world’s most fearless animal
- New books I won’t be reading
- Caturday felids: lion whisperer and silent meow
- A few minutes with Andy Rooney
- Modern life had a single origin
- Government overrules biologists to allow offshore drilling
- Vancouver!
- Archaeopteryx probably couldn’t fly
- O noes! Another species of human in Eurasia?
- Weekend update
- The Burgess Shale fauna was around a lot longer than we thought
- Jesus and Mo on stridency
- Videos from the Chicago Darwin conference
- Forbidden love
- I haz card!
- Do religious Americans accept evolution?
- The benighted
- Another review of What Darwin Got Wrong
- Lena Horne (1917-yesterday)
- Dan Barker pwns Fox News
- Does evolution improve theology?
- Caturday felids: Teddy wakes up and marked kittehs
- Polkinghorne on quantum physics and theodicy
- Close encounters of the weird kind: Quick guide to the Neandertal genome
- Say it with crayons
- World’s largest beaver dam found
- Dick Lewontin reviews What Darwin Got Wrong
- Should psychics be allowed to advertise?
- Do chimps say “no” by shaking their heads?
- We carry Neanderthal genes!!!
- Futuyma reviews What Darwin Got Wrong
- The Brain Mutiny
- Real-time natural selection on crops and their pests
- BioLogos to scientists: stop advocating
- We have a winner! Spring reading contest.
- Douglas Adams on endangered life
- Caturday felids: bafftime!
- Aphids nab pigment genes from fungus
April 2010
- Do chimps know death?
- Greatest nature photographs?
- In the TLS, F & P-P claim an “egregious misreading”
- Crayola: the official marker of the Tea Party movement
- This is what college should be.
- Boobquake
- Yeast, evolution, and medicine
- Felid contest winner
- The pile-on continues: Robert Richards reviews What Darwin Got Wrong
- Caturday felid: ninja BBQ cat!
- Saturday thumbs
- Mo the Bear
- Visit to Adlai Stevenson High
- Contests close today
- I review What Darwin Got Wrong and The Greatest Show on Earth for The Nation
- Peregrinations
- On biology and entropy: the NYT interviews physicist Sean Carroll
- A book and a movie
- HuffPo screws up evolution again
- Good to the last dropping: coffee from civet dung
- Caturday felids: les chats de Paris
- HuffPo: arrest Richard Dawkins
- Caturday felid, part deux
- Michael Ruse admits he was wrong about Catholicism
- Best U.S. graduate schools for ecology and evolution
- National Day of Prayer ruled unconstitutional
- Contest!: spring reading
- Pescado a pescado
- Can we refute creationism in evolution class?
- Jason Rosenhouse on testing the supernatural
- Connecticut middle school: evolution is “philosophically unsatisfactory.”
- My frog
- No conflict between science and faith?
- A golden age of science?
- Catholic bishop: The Jews killed Christ, and they’re killing us too.
- Can we apply science to the supernatural?
- Krista Tippett on science and faith
- … breeding mulleins out of the dead land.
- Sunday felid, or, the evolution of bipedalism?
- Cryptozoological Caturday Felid: The Beast of Bodmin and its relatives
- A C Grayling on David Lewis-Williams and the evolution of religion
- US National Science Board tries to suppress knowledge of Americans’ scientific illiteracy
- Is ID blasphemous?
- New australopithecine described
- The human genome 10 years on – so what?
- The Lakeland yeti?
- Brian Cox and the snottites from Mars
- “Oriental yeti”– April Fools?
- Evolution, animals, and gay behavior
- The incomparable Feynman
- Late Sunday Cephalopod
- Caturday felid: Easter!
- For your Saturday delectation
- Off to Paris
- More on the evolution of human brain size
- Ayala interview
- Teabonics
- More on Simon Singh
- BioLogos abjures science
- Simon Singh wins appeal
- Biggest atheist meeting yet!
- Must-read science book: Dirac
- Theists on the run
- Philip Pullman: nobody has the right not to be offended
- The weird world of the small
March 2010
- Templeton claws its way to respectability
- Obama is an atheist
- Jesus and Mo and Ratzi
- Texas boots
- No quantum leap in human brain size?
- Can the pope!
- Greta Christina on concern trolls
- Texas, Part I: beasts
- Albino squirrel update
- Christian militia group arrested
- New paper on speciation from our lab
- British biologist tells fanciful tales about brain evolution
- Caturday felid: the King Cheetah
- Republicans lose it over health care
- Quantum physics again proves a theistic God
- Polymorphism in vertebrates
- Three pieces on Templeton
- Samir Okasha trashes Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini
- Nobel laureate protests the NAS/Templeton connection
- Ayala nabs Templeton Prize
- San Marcos newspaper: Coyne proves that we evolved from monkeys
- National Academy president nominates winner of Templeton Prize
- Do animals commit suicide?
- Tag team: Deepak Chopra and Jean Houston vs. Michael Shermer and Sam Harris!
- Hitchens on Catholic child abusers
- Flightless parrot has sex with a human
- Suzan Mazur hearts Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini
- Yay! We can has health care!
- Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions
- Templeton coopts National Academy of Sciences
- New human evolution hall at the National Museum of Natural History
- Fodor and Sober talk natural selection
- March is the cruelest month…
- Caturday felids: home on teh range & smackdown!
- Weekend accommodationism
- Texas bound
- Worst science journalism of the year: Darwin completely wrong (again)
- Science/faith incompatibility at HuffPo
- Dennett and LaScola study of nonbelieving clergy
- What we’re up against
- Thursday update
- Thom Hartmann clip: home-schooling
- Do “polar bears” exist?
- Pigliucci pwns Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini
- New science book
- Quote of the day
- Birds are getting smaller
- Michael Ruse is back to being good (sort of)
- Hitchens on the Pope
- Tuesday radio bit
- Caturday felid: atheist cat
- Andrew Brown on the Catholic church: it’s no worse than other child abusers
- Good to the last dropping: pitcher plant evolves to be shrew loo
- God 1, Hispanics 0
- Black penguin!!!
- “So what do you do for a living?”
- Michael Ruse’s new book
- A new guide to The Origin
- Radio bit on home-schooling, and more angry emails
- Global warming: temporal pattern of public opinion
- Weekday update: Templeton, homeschooling, evolution, and accommodationists
- Hitchens on the Danish cartoons
- Another person finds God in quantum mechanics
- Rod Dreher and the Templeton “bribe”
- Ruse on academic anti-Darwinists
- The home-schoolers respond
- The letters of Vincent van Gogh
- Evolution and home-schooling poll
- Caturday felid: cat elevators
- “Ida” not a missing link
- Evolution and home-schooling redux
- Only in America
- Ken Miller can’t win? P.Z. and me gets pwned.
- Teach the controversy: now with added global warming
- Insects are crustaceans!
- How culture affects genes and vice versa
- Christians want orca stoned to death
- Vancouver Sun: Madame Blavatsky = Charles Darwin
- Ancient snake ate baby dinosaurs!
- Would you take the next bite?
- Forewarned is forearmed: crickets warn their eggs of nearby spiders
- In which I wiggle my ears
February 2010
- Two new books
- Caturday trifecta: head-percher, ice-fisher, and ninja kitty
- The Templeton Bribe
- Animals should not be entertainment
- Ruse: the trouble with Richard Dawkins
- Francis Collins can’t help himself
- Spiders to Fodor: get lost!
- Two philosophers review What Darwin Got Wrong
- Discovery Institute: We heart Fodor and Piattelli-Palmerini
- Creationists finally explain extinction
- Guess the author: answer
- Caturday felid: kittehs vs. bears—no contest!
- New science: ancient eukaryotes and altruistic ants
- Guess the author
- Ruse and Midgley on Fodor and Piattelli-Palmerini on natural selection
- Rosenhouse: is the Bible a science textbook?
- Tut, tut. . . not so fast
- What killed King Tut?
- “Law” of physics broken
- Monday fleas: Templeton!
- Interview: Sam Harris on morality, faith, and atheism
- The world’s 50 freakiest animals
- Valentine kitteh
- Morality and religion: are they genetic adaptations?
- Hitch on Freethought Radio
- Caturday felids: Simon’s cats
- A paleobiologist’s response to Darwin’s Dilemma
- Texas school board: we’re a Christian country
- Andrew Brown, The Guardian‘s resident moron
- Good philosophy: Anthony Grayling on Cherie Blair
- 4000-year-old human genome sequenced
- Computer simulations: approaching and entering a black hole
- Jesus ‘n’ Mo on Kuhn
- Famous philosopher and Templeton-Prize winner: science = faith
- The Apocalypse: $8 for an airline blanket
- Darwin missed a chance
- Apropos Drs. Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini
- Don’t pick on the moderates!
- Amazing hunting behavior of killer whales
- Darwin Day in Wisconsin
- Caturday felids: sand cat
- Richard Dawkins on Bill Hamilton
- New Scientist blurbs dumb ideas about evolution
- Freethought Radio podcast
- Colored dinosaurs: Part II
- Review: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
- Solution to anti-vaccination controversy: build bridges?
- Cryptozoology
- Pseudoscientist reprimanded, pseudoscience retracted
- The RNA world lives on the TLS letter page
- Even bright, well educated people misunderstand evolution
- The NY Times on the Iraqi dowsing rods
- Giant squid!! (Sort of!!)
January 2010
- Darwin in Baltimore!
- Caturday felid: the Spotted Lion
- An attack on evolution, from our side
- Peregrinations
- WEIT a top tenner in China
- Do migratory monarch butterflies evolve larger wings?
- Accommodationists vs. creationists: we all lose.
- Vestigial organ—goosebumps
- Ross Douthat’s theodicy
- Feathered dinosaurs—in color!
- Nephew’s choice: best movies of the decade
- New York Times readers respond to James Wood
- Paperback today!
- Humanist chaplain calls for godless congregations
- Dawkins at On Faith
- Holiday snaps: giant tortoise!
- New York Times: Haiti and theodicy
- Caturday felids: video trifecta!
- Does insecurity promote faith?
- Big debate!
- Holiday snaps
- Octopus with airstream
- What made Darwin sick?
- Religion and science are compatible. . . .
- Friday miscellany
- Pseudoscience– banned in Britain
- Ohio teacher faces firing for teaching creationism
- Prize-winning wildlife photo STAGED
- Anthony Lane reviews Creation
- Darwin’s Dilemma: I watched it so you don’t have to.
- Biblical gunsights for our troops
- Geert Wilders goes on trial
- Why did God destroy Haiti?
- Panda genome revealed
- Russell Blackford on Robert Wright’s The Evolution of God
- One religion I can get behind
- Lying for Darwin: science/faith compatibility again
- Monday ex-Felid: Casper the commuting cat
- You smell like a chimp… and a marmoset
- Back from the islands
- Daniel Dennett on media bias and religion
- Convergent toxins
- An iguana appetizer
- More on coincidence – or, did space aliens build Woolworths?
- Caturday Felids – wild tiger cubs in Sumatra
- New evidence for the divine: a plastic pterosaur
- How many pterosaurs do you need to draw a straight line?
- A website Jerry might like
- Everything you wanted to know about pterosaurs
- Signature in the Cell: Meyer responds in the TLS
- Odd pollinators
- “In Praise of Darwin”
- In the Galápagos
- Man overboard!
- Caturday felids: cute overdose
- A scientific Caturday felid: how it got its coat
- Hitchens on blaming the victim
- The tracks of a ghost
- Francisco Ayala on “Signature in the Cell”
- Russell Blackford on blaming the victim
- Convergent mutations produce convergent colors
- New species: the “strawberry crab”
- I get mail
- The Jews were right all along
- Harris vs. Armstrong
- Galápagos bound
- Contest!
- Russell Blackford: why atheists must speak up
- We have a winner!
- The Guardian hits rock bottom
- Sympathy for the devil: a parasitic cancer
- Looniest regulation of 2009
- A new year’s wish
- Best kittehs of 2009
- Illinois gubernatorial candidates on evolution
- Starting now: no insulting religion in Ireland