2013

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December 2013

1. 31 DecHili’s depredations
2. 31 DecTuesday: Hili dialogue
3. 31 DecAn explosion of Opiliones
4. 31 DecNew Year’s Eve quiz: spot the moth
5. 31 DecMy birthday noms
6. 31 DecStupidest atheist-bashing post of the year
7. 31 DecHere’s the moth
8. 31 DecDolphins deliberately get stoned on pufferfish toxins
9. 31 DecHappy New Year from Poland!
10. 30 DecHili dialogue: Monday (my birthday) and extras
11. 30 DecMuncie Star-Press’s biggest stories of 2013 omit the Ball State ID affair
12. 30 DecIs morality innate? A debate in the NYT book review
13. 30 DecNo joke: Italian photographer publishes calendar of hot priests
14. 30 DecReaders’ cats: Pixie
15. 30 DecJesus appears in a shower
16. 29 DecSunday: Hili dialogue
17. 29 DecScience jokes
18. 29 DecIslamic radicals kill more polio workers
19. 29 DecPoland I: I have landed
20. 29 DecAtheist-bashing roundup
21. 29 DecReaders’ wildlife photos
22. 28 DecCaturday felid: Isaiah’s prophecy fulfilled
23. 28 DecJohn M. Templeton– contrarian?
24. 28 DecSaturday: Hili dialogue
25. 28 DecChristian reader: the Bible predicts black holes
26. 27 DecHow caracaras defeat wasps
27. 27 DecPenguins!
28. 27 DecFriday: Hili dialogue
29. 27 DecChris Arnade responds, says the religious will feed me
30. 27 DecMy piece on Douthat in The New Republic
31. 27 Dec“Calm down, Lovell”: Earthrise from Apollo 8
32. 27 DecVatican scientist claims that “reason was created by God”; gets muddled about accommodationism
33. 27 DecEagleCam!
34. 27 DecThe Father, Son, and the Holy Toast
35. 26 DecA Boxing Day mummy bear
36. 26 DecThursday: Hili dialogue
37. 26 DecSo long, and no thanks for all the Fish
38. 26 DecTempleton funds climate-change denialist groups
39. 26 DecA miracle cheesecake in Arizona
40. 26 DecAtheism: a luxury for the wealthy?
41. 26 DecPost-Christmas eagle
42. 26 DecHappy Boxing Day
43. 25 DecWednesday: Hili dialogue
44. 25 DecReader’s Christmas kitten
45. 25 DecReader’s Christmas cat
46. 25 DecReader’s Christmas cat
47. 25 DecReaders’ Christmas cat
48. 25 DecReader’s Christmas cat
49. 25 DecReaders’ Christmas cat
50. 25 DecMiscellaneous Christmas cats
51. 25 DecReader’s Christmas cats
52. 25 DecAn old favorite
53. 25 DecReader’s Christmas cat
54. 25 DecReader’s Christmas cat
55. 25 Dec“First pair of boots”
56. 25 DecReader’s Christmas cat
57. 25 DecReader’s Christmas cat
58. 25 DecReader’s Christmas cat
59. 25 DecReader’s Christmas cat
60. 25 DecReader’s Christmas cat
61. 25 DecA new favorite
62. 24 DecHili’s Christmas Eve message to the world
63. 24 DecReaders’ wildlife pictures
64. 24 DecBooks I: NYT list of 2013’s best books neglects science; my list does too.
65. 24 DecAmazing T. rex illusion (make your own)
66. 24 DecBooks II: Free will and the falsity of the Christmas story
67. 24 DecAnother message from Hili
68. 24 DecReaders’ holiday cards to all of us
69. 23 DecMonday: Hili dialogue
70. 23 DecIt is finished
71. 23 DecDouthat on the rampage against secularism, gets it all wrong
72. 23 DecTeddy the talking porcupine returns
73. 23 DecAmerican universities reject ridiculous call to boycott Israeli universities
74. 23 DecOuta here!
75. 23 DecBest space photos of 2013
76. 23 DecI’m outraged!
77. 22 DecOne Peruvian mystery solved, another found
78. 22 DecSunday: Hili dialogue
79. 22 DecChief medical correspondent for CNN osculates the rump of pastor Joel Osteen
80. 22 DecReaders’ wildlife photos (boids)
81. 22 DecAnother billboard kerfuffle
82. 22 DecMake your own atheist billboard
83. 22 DecPinker: If the world is a safer place, why can I still die?
84. 21 DecSaturday: Hili dialogue
85. 21 DecCaturday felids: Cat tattoos, and cheetah and d*g playing in the snow
86. 21 DecLocal park district, then library, reject $3000 donation because it came from atheists
87. 21 DecCatholic official says that angels exist but are wingless
88. 20 DecFriday: Hili dialogue
89. 20 DecNote to readers
90. 20 DecThe outgroup for multicellular animals: ctenophores
91. 20 DecSecularism wins again: LSE apologizes (sort of) to students forced to cover up their Jesus and Mo shirts
92. 20 DecCarl Sagan’s last interview
93. 20 DecLivid believers try to torch FFRF sign
94. 20 DecA farewell to foxes
95. 20 DecGoogle box is a crossword puzzle today
96. 19 DecThursday: Hili dialogue
97. 19 DecReaders’ bird photos
98. 19 DecGood news for secularism. I. Meatballs make baby Jesus cry in Florida
99. 19 DecGood catch
100. 19 DecGood news for secularism: Part II. Belief in the supernatural declines in U.S., acceptance of evolution rises
101. 19 DecSquirrel prestidigitation
102. 19 DecOne of God’s Special Children damns me to Hell
103. 19 DecMy TAM interview, part 2, and a book on secularization
104. 19 DecCrow snowboards on mayonnaise lid (?)
105. 18 DecWednesday: Hili dialogue
106. 18 DecFrom my windowsill
107. 18 DecNew date on first domesticated cats: ca. 5300 years ago—and in China
108. 18 DecJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ dueling paranoia
109. 18 DecProminent Muslim doctor in Britain opposes all vaccination
110. 18 DecSnowcat
111. 18 DecElizabeth Taylor’s cowboy boots auctioned off
112. 18 DecKen Miller, Joe Levine—and evolution—win in Texas
113. 18 DecA word to the unwise from a peeved (and tipsy) scientist
114. 17 DecTuesday: Hili Dialogue
115. 17 DecSomeone needs a biology lesson
116. 17 DecWhy John Scopes wasn’t a racist, and other lessons from the “Monkey Trial”
117. 17 DecElizabeth Hasselbeck interviews (and praises) Ken Ham
118. 17 DecThe cat as metaphor
119. 17 DecL. A. Times reports the Museum kerfuffle
120. 17 DecHooky
121. 17 DecShe totally deserved it
122. 16 DecA Martian cavern – or is it?
123. 16 DecMonday: Hili Dialogue
124. 16 DecWe’re #2!
125. 16 DecIn defense of Hitchens
126. 16 DecAn unusual antipredator defense
127. 16 DecMy interview at TAM
128. 16 DecA new Polish rationalist website, now with more cat
129. 16 DecThe quote in L.A. is gone!
130. 16 DecL. A. Museum explains why it removed the God quote
131. 16 DecLawrence of Arabia, for free
132. 15 DecSunday: Hili dialogue
133. 15 DecThe good and bad of humanity
134. 15 DecWilliam Lane Craig’s Christmas present: five bits of evidence for God; Professor Ceiling Cat responds with evidence for Not Ceiling Cat
135. 15 DecChopra keeps tweeting
136. 15 DecNinja cat!
137. 15 DecSnow leopard pounce
138. 15 DecPeter O’Toole, 1932-2013
139. 14 DecSaturday: Hili dialogue
140. 14 DecBoids
141. 14 DecIt’s snowing
142. 14 DecCaturday felid: Cats pwn d*gs, teach physics
143. 14 DecLOL, Deepak has more bogus science for me to read
144. 14 DecStonewalled by the god-touting museum
145. 14 DecUn pingüino travieso
146. 13 DecThere’s only one Emu
147. 13 DecFriday: Hili Dialogue
148. 13 DecUniversities UK persists in approving sex-segregated seating, Telegraph editorial decries it
149. 13 DecO’Reilly and Chopra diss Dawkins
150. 13 DecAnother intelligent design course canned
151. 13 DecBooks banned for Gitmo prisoners
152. 13 DecOnerous kitten carry
153. 12 DecThose dinosaurs ain’t so tough
154. 12 DecThursday: Hili dialogue
155. 12 DecBritish Supreme Court rules that Scientology is a religion
156. 12 DecAlmost too good to be true
157. 12 DecChopra and his employee try to edit his Wikipedia entry, but lie about it
158. 12 DecCeiling cat greater than God
159. 12 DecWe’re in for it now!
160. 12 DecMoar emus
161. 11 DecWednesday: Hili dialogue
162. 11 DecWas Nelson Mandela an atheist?
163. 11 DecEarth viewed and heard from Juno
164. 11 Dec“The Unbelievers” out in two days
165. 11 DecWorldwide punishment for nonbelief, blasphemy, and apostasy
166. 11 DecPinkah takes pickchas!
167. 11 DecThe world’s cutest animal
168. 10 DecTuesday: Hili dialogue
169. 10 DecThe Way it Is
170. 10 DecOne more attack on New Atheism from an atheist who should know better
171. 10 DecThere’s a bacterium on a diatom on an amphipod on a . . . you know the rest
172. 10 DecFundamentalism II: A survey of Muslims in Europe
173. 10 DecFox week: VI (I think): Cropper and his human pal
174. 9 DecHili dialogue: Monday
175. 9 DecCrazy cyclists: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME
176. 9 DecSnow boots
177. 9 DecNew York Times officially opposes stupid rules of Catholic hospitals
178. 9 DecReader photos: snowy owl in NYC; flying sparrow and winter landscape in Idaho
179. 9 DecFundamentalism I: Religion and creationism in UK schools
180. 9 DecSitcoms > Mandela
181. 9 DecNote from an anti-vaxer
182. 9 DecGoogle doodle honors computing pioneer
183. 9 DecMatthew’s cat banged up in a fight
184. 8 DecHili Dialogue: Sunday
185. 8 DecSpecial treat: Pia dialogue
186. 8 DecThe good news and the bad news. I: The bad news
187. 8 DecHead-on eagle
188. 8 DecThe good news: Frank Bruni calls out U.S. politicos for pandering to religion
189. 8 DecTalking porcupine noms pumpkin
190. 7 DecAmazing dino footprints in Bolivia
191. 7 DecHili Dialogue: Saturday
192. 7 DecCaturday felid trifecta: cats vs. birds, cat vs. d*g, and a love letter to a cat
193. 7 DecMore Egnorance: IDers lie for Jesus again
194. 7 DecA picture from The Great Agnostic
195. 7 DecConference on “Hype in Science” today
196. 7 DecFox Week. 5: Readers’ fox photos
197. 6 DecFriday: Hili dialogue
198. 6 DecThe power of evidence
199. 6 DecDavid Dobbs mucks up evolution, part II
200. 6 DecFox week: readers’ fox videos
201. 6 DecBad signage
202. 6 DecDawkins responds to Dobbs
203. 6 DecEarth from the ISS
204. 6 DecEine kleine Nachtmusik
205. 5 DecHili dialogue: Thursday
206. 5 DecDavid Dobbs mucks up evolution, part I
207. 5 DecFox week 3: Cat/fox love
208. 5 DecHili’s on Twitter
209. 5 DecEinstein post at The New Republic
210. 5 DecNelson Mandela died
211. 4 DecWednesday: Hili dialogue
212. 4 DecFox week, day 3: Two other species
213. 4 DecReligious accomodationism in a public museum
214. 4 DecMust-watch television show on escaping Mormonism
215. 4 DecAgain??
216. 4 DecSpeaking of Morgan Freeman. . .
217. 3 DecTuesday: Hili dialogue
218. 3 DecFox week, day 2: More beautiful foxes
219. 3 DecChris Mooney downplays religion as a cause of creationism
220. 3 DecBest abstract of the year
221. 3 DecThe U.S. is going to hell
222. 3 DecReaders’ cats: the late Spook
223. 2 DecMonday: Hili dialogue
224. 2 Dec“Biocentrism”: is it woo?
225. 2 DecA paleontologist debates an IDer on the Cambrian Explosion
226. 2 DecFox Week!
227. 2 DecEinstein’s famous quote about science and religion: what did he mean?
228. 2 DecUpdate: Sean Carroll on biocentrism
229. 1 DecSunday: Hili dialogue
230. 1 DecA passel of possums
231. 1 DecShould the niqab be banned?
232. 1 DecSam Harris mashup
233. 1 DecDennett and LaScola’s new book on nonbelieving clergy
234. 1 DecRobotic camera meets lion pride

November 2013

1. 30 NovSaturday: Hili dialogue
2. 30 NovCaturday felids: Awesome embroidered cat shirts, and a dog in a cat suit
3. 30 NovThe mysterious person in the Shermer/Dalton video
4. 30 NovStunning new research: cats recognize their owners’ voices—but don’t much care
5. 30 NovSkeptic asks Deepak how to distinguish real truth from that garnered by “other ways of knowing”
6. 29 NovFriday: Hili dialogue
7. 29 NovDead whale explodes
8. 29 NovAnother child doomed by faith, and an “ad” for vaccination
9. 29 NovSpectacular video of fox hunting rodents under snow
10. 29 NovA Vatican astronomer explains why he sees God through the telescope
11. 29 NovPregnant Irish cat adopts ducklings, plus bonus cat/ferret bonding
12. 28 NovThursday: Hili Dialogue
13. 28 NovHappy Thanksgiving!
14. 28 NovMan saves squirrel found in bag of mulch
15. 28 NovYour Thanksgiving viewing
16. 28 NovDoes evolution promote bullying?
17. 28 NovThe panda ant
18. 28 NovReaders’ cats: Fatty Boom Boom, Mischief, General Mayhem, and Monster
19. 27 NovWednesday: Hili dialogue
20. 27 NovShermer and Dalton go after science-y woo
21. 27 NovJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Universities UK
22. 27 NovNew Republic picks up Adam and Eve piece
23. 27 NovTwo bizarre deep-sea creatures
24. 27 NovTop 10 questions for Dawkins on reddit
25. 27 NovA paper on sexual selection is retracted
26. 27 NovBucky B. Katt as atheist bus sign
27. 27 NovHappy Thanksgiving from Deepak to the gangbangers!
28. 26 NovTuesday: Hili dialogue
29. 26 NovSean Carroll nabs prestigious science book prize
30. 26 NovThe Adam and Eve debacle continues: science drives theologians into a frenzy of fabrication
31. 26 NovAsk Dawkins anything
32. 26 NovKen Miller and Joe Levine respond to creationist criticisms of their textbook
33. 26 NovCatholic Andrew Sullivan recognizes Ceiling Cat
34. 26 NovSmokey and Daryl
35. 25 NovMonday: Hili dialogue
36. 25 NovGermans can’t say “squirrel”
37. 25 NovAnother child killed by faith
38. 25 NovAn open letter to Deepak Chopra
39. 25 NovA great victory for secularism: No more tax-free housing for preachers
40. 25 NovSimon’s real cats
41. 25 NovChopra’s losing it
42. 24 NovSunday: Hili dialogue
43. 24 NovHoliday snaps: Kentucky
44. 24 NovPastor: JFK’s death, like that of Jesus, was all for the best
45. 24 NovTheropods calling
46. 24 NovEagles in Idaho
47. 24 NovForbes goes after The Chopra
48. 24 NovA parti-colored squirrel
49. 23 NovThe Day of the Doctor
50. 23 NovSaturday: Hili dialogue
51. 23 NovCaturday felid trifecta: How to do yoga with your cat, Sumatran tiger cubs on view in D.C., and a lion cub plays with leaves
52. 23 NovPaducah!
53. 23 NovCorrection: Texas still holds up one textbook
54. 23 NovMore good things by Wallace
55. 23 NovSaturday: Hili dialogue 2
56. 23 NovA lovely post from a Christian
57. 22 NovFriday: Hili dialogue
58. 22 NovUnexpectedly, textbook kerfuffle continues in Texas
59. 22 NovThe anniversary
60. 22 NovMy interview here: full and archived
61. 22 NovDoctor Who Google Doodle in the UK
62. 22 NovMallard explosion
63. 22 NovOhio Supreme court: it’s legal to fire a creationist teacher
64. 22 NovTexas textbook update: all books approved by school board; creationists lose big time
65. 21 NovThursday: Hili dialogue
66. 21 NovPastor is shocked—shocked! at Costco’s labeling the Bible as fiction
67. 21 NovRed-tailed hawk in flight
68. 21 NovMuslim author opposes child brides
69. 21 NovRadio interview at 12:15 today
70. 21 NovMore defaced posters at Murray State
71. 21 NovThe Deepak shoots but doesn’t score
72. 21 NovBeautiful insects (and other animals) made from old parts
73. 21 NovBuddy the talking starling
74. 20 NovHow does it feeeeeel, to be on your own?
75. 20 NovWednesday: Hili Dialogue
76. 20 NovJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Alvin
77. 20 NovNC State student admits that his antievolution diatribe was a satire, but a real creationist appears
78. 20 NovMixed metaphors
79. 20 NovFred Sanger died
80. 20 NovRay Comfort loses Twitter account to atheist hijacker
81. 20 NovReaders’ cats: Hob
82. 20 NovI’m in Paducah!
83. 19 NovTuesday: Hili dialogue
84. 19 NovRatite boots
85. 19 NovI was prescient
86. 19 NovThe Independent assures readers that there is an afterlife
87. 19 NovHow your tax dollars support faith healing
88. 19 NovRocket launch visible at 7:30 tonight
89. 19 NovTalks in Kentucky, a single origin of life, and other stuff
90. 19 NovDeepkat Chopra
91. 18 NovMonday: Hili dialogue
92. 18 NovChicago: clearing storm
93. 18 NovCreationism on life support at the Texas Board of Education
94. 18 NovCan you write proper English under pressure?
95. 18 NovU. S. congressman: God promises that global warming won’t happen
96. 18 NovProverb: The greedy squirrel loses a nut
97. 18 NovThe Deepak, part I: Chopra goes after Professor Ceiling Cat
98. 18 NovThe Deepak, part II: Chopra goes after “militant skeptics” like Dawkins and Harris
99. 17 NovSunday: Hili dialogue
100. 17 NovIdaho: first snow
101. 17 NovA superb book on mountaineering
102. 17 NovBaptist preacher gets op-ed in Texas newspaper to decry the teaching of evolution—and materialism
103. 17 NovWe have a winner!
104. 17 NovCatman! And, I guess, another contest. . .
105. 16 NovSaturday: Hili dialogue
106. 16 NovCaturday felid trifecta: How to introduce a new cat to a reigning one, cat is my co-pilot, and a dramatic kitten rescue
107. 16 NovMore children killed by religiously-based medical neglect
108. 16 NovReaders’ photos: Polar bear and cub
109. 16 NovCreationism in North Carolina State University newspaper
110. 16 NovThe noble serval
111. 16 NovDiscussion on Islam TONIGHT featuring Ayaan Hirsi Ali
112. 15 NovFriday: Hili dialogue
113. 15 NovChicago: Sunrise, sunset
114. 15 NovFrancis Collins on science and faith
115. 15 NovG. W. Bush helps raise money to hasten the End Times
116. 15 NovLove at first bite
117. 15 NovMore Christians deface my posters in Kentucky
118. 15 NovBuddhist cat
119. 14 NovThursday: Hili Dialogue
120. 14 NovScientists KILL the world’s oldest known animal
121. 14 NovIs it ever good to have faith?
122. 14 NovMeet the sloths!
123. 14 NovPolar Bear Cam
124. 14 NovMy piece in Slate: Is science based on faith?
125. 14 NovA Facebook update about squirrels
126. 14 NovCat flummoxed by streaming bird cam
127. 13 NovWendesday: Hili dialogue
128. 13 NovMoss-mimicking mantid
129. 13 NovDavid “theology isn’t about God” Dunn responds
130. 13 NovThe story of Simon’s Cat
131. 13 NovFive years probation
132. 13 NovThe better angels of our nature
133. 13 NovFrom the sublime to the ridiculous
134. 12 NovSpot moar nightjars – and help science!
135. 12 NovTuesday: Hili Monologue
136. 12 NovA bionic tortoise
137. 12 NovReligious exemptions from children’s healthcare. Part 2: Medical care during illness, and one child’s story
138. 12 NovNoah’s Ark Park floated by junk bonds
139. 12 NovCheetahCam!
140. 12 NovInterspecies love: deer and cat
141. 11 NovSpot the nightjar
142. 11 NovMonday: Hili dialogue
143. 11 NovFoul weather boots
144. 11 NovA new book on “proofs” of God
145. 11 NovContest closes tomorrow
146. 11 NovDavid Dunn gets the message
147. 11 NovReligious exemptions from children’s healthcare. Part 1: preventive and diagnostic procedures
148. 11 NovHere’s the damn nightjar!
149. 11 NovNever mind the nightjar – spot the tiger!
150. 11 NovA cat enjoys a cone
151. 10 NovSunday: Hili dialogue
152. 10 NovVintage boots
153. 10 NovA theologian at HuffPo informs me that theology “is not about God”
154. 10 NovYesterday’s debate between Dawkins and Chopra
155. 10 NovA “light echo” from a star actually shows light moving
156. 10 NovKid in tiger suit plays with baby tiger (and bonus cat puns)
157. 9 NovSaturday: Hili dialogue (in two parts)
158. 9 NovSaturday footwear
159. 9 NovCaturday felid: a gif and four cartoons
160. 9 NovMore religion as child abuse: Parents get stiff jail time for beating their child to death using Christian guidelines
161. 9 NovThe good Christians of Kentucky deface my posters again
162. 9 NovOMG: Kosher cat food!
163. 9 NovPetition to Amazon about books advocating child abuse
164. 8 NovFriday: Hili dialogue
165. 8 NovPseudoscience roundup: Guerrilla Skeptics mock Sheldrake’s paranoia; Tedx fails to keep its videos of Sheldrake off YouTube, and BBC criticized for giving “equal time” to climate-change denialists
166. 8 NovMalcolm Gladwell finds his faith
167. 8 NovGoogle doodle: Rorschach blots
168. 8 NovI’ve sold out again
169. 8 NovThe world’s most politically correct salt
170. 8 NovFinnish kayaker saves drowning owl
171. 7 NovThursday: Hili dialogue
172. 7 NovChristian runner drops out of race rather than wear Satan’s number
173. 7 NovA guest post for Wallace Day
174. 7 NovHow do you piss off a baby tiger?
175. 7 NovTiger swim test, part 2
176. 7 NovThe Friendly Atheist becomes the Happy Atheist
177. 6 NovWednesday: Hili dialogue
178. 6 NovThe BBC and Chopra buy into woomeister Rupert Sheldrake’s “Galileo syndrome”
179. 6 NovJesus ‘n’ Mo and those angry atheists
180. 6 NovShermer and Harris pwn Chopra at Caltech
181. 6 NovThe glass katydid
182. 6 NovReaders’ cats: Evil
183. 5 NovTuesday: Hili dialogue
184. 5 NovFrancis Spufford writes the world’s most tedious defense of Christianity in Salon
185. 5 NovWe reach 25 million views today: contest ensues!
186. 5 NovFly with ant-mimic wings
187. 5 NovScore 2
188. 5 NovThe incompatibilism blues
189. 4 NovMonday: Hili dialogue
190. 4 NovMoar fall footwear
191. 4 NovFall at the University of Chicago: Part 2
192. 4 NovUK report urges that female genital mutilation be deemed “child abuse”
193. 4 NovDaniel Dennett to talk on free will in NYC, with free lunch!
194. 4 NovThe U.S. government helps religion kill kids
195. 4 NovAn atheist gives religion credit for gunpowder, writing, printing, and agriculture
196. 4 NovCat vs. wipers
197. 4 NovAmazing dolphin superpod off Vancouver
198. 3 NovSunday: Hili dialogue
199. 3 NovWatch the annular eclipse live
200. 3 NovEclipse totality at 14:25 Greenwich time: watch live!
201. 3 NovOnce again “moderate” Muslims advocate subjugation of women and stoning
202. 3 NovReader’s eclipse photos, one with cat
203. 3 NovThe Atlantic gives the world’s worst advice: study more theology
204. 3 NovThose Wiley squirrels
205. 3 NovThe unbearable cleverness of squirrels
206. 3 NovThe unbelievable tenacity of mice
207. 2 NovSaturday: Hili dialogue
208. 2 NovCaturday felid: Nubbins the cat gets rescued, befriends budgie
209. 2 NovAnnular solar eclipse tomorrow
210. 2 Nov50 more professors (that makes 150) profess atheism
211. 2 NovThe South Side Pie Challenge!
212. 1 NovFriday: Hili dialogue
213. 1 NovCats gone wild
214. 1 NovFall: University of Chicago
215. 1 NovBioLogos restores comments, disses Professor Ceiling Cat, and claims success in converting Christians to evolution. Karl Giberson denies that claim.
216. 1 NovBirds from Barnard
217. 1 NovPublic Prayers: Town of Greece v. Galloway
218. 1 NovTwo Germans with a MacBook prove that God exists
219. 1 NovSir Patrick Stewart’s Halloween costume: no white sport coat, but a pink crustacean
220. 1 NovMiley Cyrus gets Attenborough-ized

October 2013

1. 31 OctThursday: Hili dialogue
2. 31 OctCelebrities tout pseudoscience
3. 31 OctLol
4. 31 OctTrue facts about the cuttlefish
5. 31 OctA Hallowe’en tarantula
6. 31 OctCeci n’est pas une fourmi
7. 31 OctHalloween Google doodle
8. 31 OctTanya Luhrmann jumps the shark of religion
9. 31 OctHappy Halloween!
10. 31 OctO Mio Babbino Caro, at age 9
11. 30 OctWednesday: Hili dialogue
12. 30 OctPah-tee with Pinkah, and a new symbol of secularism
13. 30 OctHow religions—and the U.S. government—let children die
14. 30 OctOptical illusions—one with a cat
15. 30 OctMarmots take communion at Our Lady of the Rocks
16. 29 OctTuesday: Hili dialogue
17. 29 OctOhio State band does the Hollywood blockbusters
18. 29 OctAre primates hard-wired to be scared of snakes?
19. 29 Oct“Pah-tee with the Pinkah!”
20. 29 Oct“I have this disease”: Feynman on curiosity and the wonders of life
21. 29 OctReaders’ cats: Finding Nemo
22. 28 OctMonday: Hili dialogue
23. 28 OctBall State University President retires. Is this anything beyond a normal retirement?
24. 28 OctExecution of the mentally disabled
25. 28 OctEric MacDonald closes up shop
26. 28 OctAdult squirrel noms acorn and peanut
27. 27 OctSunday: Hili dialogue
28. 27 OctPublic “charter schools” in Texas lie about evolution and push creationism
29. 27 OctWomen in Saudi Arabia protest driving ban by driving
30. 27 OctA physics joke
31. 27 OctRobert Richards’ new collection of essays on the history of evolutionary biology, including “Was Hitler a Darwinian?”
32. 27 OctBonus Hili dialogues: Before Sunset
33. 26 OctSaturday: Hili Dialogue
34. 26 OctCaturday felid trifecta: WEIT book club recommendation, a new “Simon’s Cat”, and Kick the cat gets a scary ride on the M1
35. 26 OctBioLogos eliminates reader comments
36. 26 OctAn interlude
37. 26 OctA reader asks a question about free will
38. 26 OctSea lion purloins fish
39. 25 OctFriday: Hili dialogue
40. 25 OctFancy boots
41. 25 OctLots of Irish people admire Hitler
42. 25 OctAnother person ignorant about evolution tries to dismiss it
43. 25 OctBertrand Russell on why the term “agnostic” is for show
44. 25 OctFriday squirrel report
45. 24 OctThursday: Hili Dialogue
46. 24 OctChicago: Sunset with approaching storm
47. 24 OctThe first venomous crustacean is found
48. 24 OctThe Cat Won’t Get to Munch
49. 24 OctQuestions for compatibilists
50. 24 OctHow to get rich
51. 23 OctWednesday: Hili dialogue
52. 23 OctI didn’t name the plant!
53. 23 OctLeon Wieseltier vs. Tanya Luhrmann: is she enabling faith?
54. 23 OctJesus ‘n’ Mo go all metaphorical
55. 23 OctOne last round with Eric
56. 23 OctAgain? Phil Zuckerman wins debate with Christian, church refuses to post video
57. 23 OctThis will cheer you up
58. 23 OctReaders’ cats: Purruru
59. 22 OctThe Sun as you have never seen it before
60. 22 OctTuesday: Hili Dialogue
61. 22 OctI can die happy now
62. 22 OctScience is in bad shape
63. 22 OctGoogle doodle celebrates first parachute descent
64. 22 OctKarl Giberson discusses whether there’s a war between science and faith
65. 22 OctA new batch of squirrels (with video)!
66. 22 OctA fantastic view of Saturn
67. 21 OctMonday: Hili dialogue
68. 21 OctChicago: sunset with bird
69. 21 OctGuest post: Linda Calhoun reviews “The Authoritarians”
70. 21 OctA critique of my views on free will and the humanities by the man formerly known as “Uncle Eric”
71. 21 OctMicturation data
72. 21 OctThis can’t be right!
73. 21 OctThe worst songs ever: 5. Old Rivers
74. 20 OctSunday: Hili dialogue
75. 20 OctReptilian footwear
76. 20 OctSteven Weinberg discusses the mysteries of physics
77. 20 OctHow to recognize a hidebound accommodationist
78. 20 OctWhy was God a stay-at-home?
79. 20 OctThe worst songs ever: 4. “An Open Letter to My Teenage Son”
80. 19 OctGoblin shark
81. 19 OctSaturday: Hili dialogue
82. 19 OctCaturday felid: Cats pwn dogs by stealing their beds, and how cats see the world.
83. 19 OctA rescued kitten
84. 19 OctWhere did ants (and their social behavior) come from?
85. 19 OctDawkins on Book TV today, tomorrow, Monday, and a week from Sunday
86. 19 OctOut of control
87. 19 OctThe worst songs ever: 3. “Brand New Key”
88. 18 OctFriday: Hili dialogue
89. 18 OctThis will seriously mess with your head, man!
90. 18 OctBest wildlife photos of 2013
91. 18 OctDid Christianity (and other religions) promote the rise of science?
92. 18 OctA new law of biology: All mammals pee for about 21 seconds
93. 18 OctThe worst songs ever: 2. “I’ve never been to me”
94. 17 OctThursday: Hili dialogue
95. 17 OctOctober boots
96. 17 OctFrench court convicts Scientology of fraud
97. 17 OctA planthopper and a gynormous snake
98. 17 OctNew comic about evolution and natural selection
99. 17 OctAnother person micturates on my rug
100. 17 OctThe worst songs ever: 1. “Muskrat Love”
101. 17 OctSk8r kat
102. 16 OctWednesday: Hili dialogue
103. 16 OctJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ FELIDS
104. 16 OctWas Jesus made up by the Romans?
105. 16 OctFelicitous misspelling
106. 16 OctIn chat with Diana Nyad, Oprah Winfrey channels Krista Tippett
107. 16 OctSandra Bullock raps
108. 16 OctHawk aloft
109. 15 OctTuesday: Hili Dialogue
110. 15 OctTen Cats again
111. 15 OctTanya Luhrmann tells us for the gazillionth time that faith is HARD (but useful)
112. 15 OctPredation: don’t blink or you’ll miss it
113. 15 OctBaptist explains why freedom of religion requires public prayer
114. 14 OctMonday: Hili dialogue
115. 14 OctO tempura! O morels!
116. 14 Oct“You can’t prove a negative”
117. 14 OctThree good new books on secularism and atheism
118. 14 OctReader help: The argument from the disprovability of non-existence
119. 14 OctThe voice of the angels. . . . err, crickets
120. 14 OctProof of Ceiling Cat: The Argument from the Underground
121. 13 OctSunday: Hili dialogue
122. 13 OctHow to behave in someone’s living room: do not threaten the host
123. 13 OctCreationism and censorship of evolution: US and UK
124. 13 OctScore
125. 13 OctIf only. . .
126. 13 Oct“Ten Cats”: a cartoon worth following
127. 12 OctSaturday: Hili Dialogue
128. 12 OctCaturday felid: Reader adopts cat—and bonus reader’s cat
129. 12 OctSuicidal reproduction in small marsupials
130. 12 OctA stealth Templeton grant?
131. 12 OctBull elk jumps the fence
132. 12 OctA bit more on free will
133. 11 OctFriday: Hili Dialogue
134. 11 OctBoot weather!
135. 11 OctAnother god-infused science class at a public university?
136. 11 OctPigliucci and Boudry rebuke alternative medicine, praise science, in New York Times
137. 11 OctAnother shadow illusion
138. 11 OctIn Alabama, Jesus rides with the cops—and taxpayers foot the bill
139. 11 OctFood for thought. . .
140. 11 OctVatican recalls medal with “Jesus” misspelled
141. 10 OctThursday: Hili Dialogue
142. 10 OctMalala wins Sakharov Prize
143. 10 OctAlice Munro wins Nobel Prize for Literature
144. 10 OctUniversity of Iowa chemist decries evolution in school magazine; colleagues object but Discovery Institute applauds
145. 10 OctRiding the booster rocket
146. 10 OctWe Did Stop
147. 9 OctWednesday: Hili Dialogue
148. 9 OctJon Stewart interviews Malala
149. 9 OctDawkins criticized again for arrogance and evangelical militancy
150. 9 OctMichele Bachmann: The End Times are a-comin’!
151. 9 OctInternational Cat Day: Readers’ cats
152. 9 OctWednesday: Bonus Hili!
153. 8 OctTuesday: Hili Dialogue
154. 8 OctGoogle doodle celebrates ornithologist
155. 8 OctPhysics Nobel goes to Englert and Higgs; Sean Carroll kvetches a bit
156. 8 OctJustice Scalia: Satan is real!
157. 8 OctBelievers strike back: an anti-atheist billboard in Times Square
158. 8 OctHands (and propellers) off the manatees!
159. 8 OctThe smartest thing a priest ever said
160. 7 OctMonday: Hili Dialogue
161. 7 OctThe last homework assignment
162. 7 OctStill more on the Jesus and Mo kerfuffle
163. 7 OctAn amazing grass moth mimicking… a spider?
164. 7 OctMichael Enright called out for telling atheists to shut up
165. 7 OctWe aren’t doing so well. . .
166. 7 OctWhen a scientist becomes a movie critic
167. 7 OctDouble take
168. 6 OctSunday: Hili Dialogue
169. 6 OctDoes reading literary fiction make us empathic?
170. 6 OctNobel Predictions 2013: Hall, Rosbash and Young for biological clocks
171. 6 OctPileated woodpecker (and gratis cat)
172. 6 OctThe Discovery Institute continues its whining about Ball State’s courses
173. 5 OctSaturday: Hili Dialogue
174. 5 OctCaturday felid trifecta: Kuzma the library cat, troubles with the Chief Mouser, and a heartwarming cat rescue
175. 5 OctJesus and Mo shirts cause a fracas at LSE
176. 5 OctAn extended beaverian phenotype
177. 5 OctShould public schools have religiously segregated housing?
178. 5 OctThe little lion who couldn’t roar
179. 4 OctFriday: Hili Dialogue
180. 4 OctDawkins event (and noms)
181. 4 OctMule deer in Idaho
182. 4 OctSaint Chesterton?
183. 4 OctA short clip of l’affaire Dawkins
184. 4 OctReaders’ birds: South America
185. 3 OctThursday: Hili Dialogue
186. 3 OctThe final round: Pinker vs. Wieseltier on scientism
187. 3 OctWho’s affected by the government shutdown? Severely ill patients, for one thing.
188. 3 OctDawkins sends a LOLcat
189. 3 OctTextbooks and Texas
190. 2 OctWednesday: Hili Dialogue
191. 2 Oct“If I Fell”
192. 2 OctEgnorance of free will
193. 2 OctWhen the boat comes in…
194. 2 OctCanadian journalist snarls at atheists
195. 2 OctThe Discovery Institute continues to threaten Ball State
196. 2 OctWorld’s coolest sleeping cat
197. 1 OctHili Dialogue: Tuesday
198. 1 OctA disease of the brain, but not of the mind?
199. 1 OctFree online course on human evolution
200. 1 OctThe paw of Ceiling Cat
201. 1 OctThe New York Times touts alternative medicine, disses science
202. 1 OctHow to fix Congress
203. 1 OctHappy birthday, Kink!

September 2013

1. 30 SepMonday: Hili Dialogue
2. 30 Sep“Any Time At All”
3. 30 SepApologists (including David Cameron) try their best to avoid pinning religious massacres on Islam
4. 30 SepGuest post: Reza Aslan schools us in the “myths” about Jesus
5. 30 SepPython regurgitates dog
6. 30 SepInternational Cat Day: Readers’ cats
7. 29 SepBlessing of the animals at the University of Chicago
8. 29 SepSunday: Hili Dialogue
9. 29 Sep“Selection pressures” are metaphors. So are the “laws of physics.”
10. 29 SepAn Indian meal with friends and readers
11. 28 SepCaturday felid trifecta: Saturday Hili, Kitty (and a hoomin) play a theremin, and a bizarre road sign in Moscow
12. 28 SepHere, There, and Everywhere
13. 28 SepMore trouble with Kansas: Christians sue to prevent implementation of science standards
14. 28 SepNew Pinker anthology
15. 28 SepDiscussion in Cracow
16. 27 SepFriday: Hili Dialogue
17. 27 SepIdaho: First snow
18. 27 SepDawkins’s book gets a brickbat-filled bouquet from NPR. Also, I’m giving away tickets.
19. 27 SepAtheism to be taught in Irish schools
20. 27 SepMuch ado about something
21. 26 SepThursday: Hili Dialogue
22. 26 SepLara Buchak replies: faith can be rational
23. 26 SepWEIT is a summer reading pick
24. 26 SepAn illusion
25. 26 SepPoor Richard’s Almanac: Andrew Brown and the Pope go after The Selfish Gene
26. 25 SepWednesday: Hili Dialogue
27. 25 SepGary Gutting goes after scientism in the NYT, calls Augustine an evolutionist
28. 25 SepRichard Dawkins on The Daily Show
29. 25 SepThe duck-faced lacewing, its baby and an ancient Egyptian inscription
30. 25 SepInternational cat day: Readers’ cats
31. 25 SepA murmuration of hunted starlings
32. 24 SepThe amazing robber fly
33. 24 SepTuesday: Hili Dialogue
34. 24 SepTania Lombrozo part 2: It can be rational to have faith
35. 24 SepMore religious shenanigans at Ball State
36. 24 SepGolden eagle kills deer
37. 24 SepDawkins tickets still available
38. 24 SepRichard Dawkins on the Daily Show– in about 5 minutes!
39. 23 SepThe weirdest toad you will see this year
40. 23 SepMonday: Hili Dialogue
41. 23 SepTania Lombrozo strokes the faithful at NPR
42. 23 SepThe meaning of life
43. 23 SepEpigenetics smackdown at the Guardian
44. 23 SepAt last!
45. 22 SepHili Dialogue: Sunday
46. 22 SepPoland: Food
47. 22 SepBritish judge rules that Muslim defendant must remove her face covering during testimony
48. 22 SepShattered dreams
49. 22 SepPastor blames Colorado flooding on gays, dope, and abortion
50. 22 SepProduce score of the week
51. 21 SepHili Dialogue: Saturday
52. 21 SepCaturday felid trifecta: cat hero, cats taking selfies, and baby Hili!
53. 21 SepHenry Gee replies
54. 21 SepYes, Virginia, you are a creationist
55. 21 SepThe absurd cost of U.S. medical care
56. 20 SepHili Dialogue: Friday
57. 20 SepFamous paleobiologist savages Stephen Meyer’s ID book
58. 20 SepMoar wildlife from Idaho
59. 20 SepNature editor Henry Gee goes all anti-science
60. 20 SepCat quiz
61. 19 SepHili Dialogue: Thursday
62. 19 SepLet a thousand ignoramuses bloom: Texas creationist wants pro-evolution texts adopted!
63. 19 SepI return, and storms in Chicago
64. 19 SepAtheist website meetup
65. 19 SepOh, those crazy Germans!
66. 19 SepAmazing footage of camera-clad eagle: real or fake?
67. 18 SepBonus: Marxist Hili Dialogue
68. 18 Sep4.5 minutes of camouflaged cephalopods
69. 18 SepBees and more
70. 18 SepCeiling cat be praised! (Pareidolia or Photoshop?)
71. 18 SepFor your pleasure
72. 17 SepNot a fly: the dobsonfly
73. 17 SepLeopard gets fusses
74. 17 SepWednesday: Hili dialogue
75. 17 SepCat versus caiman
76. 16 SepTwo cartoons: Darwin & Wallace, and the truth about Tetris
77. 16 SepIs it a beetle? Is it a fly? No, it’s a beetle fly!
78. 16 SepThe Hili Dialogues: Monday
79. 16 SepSome Reading for Wallace Year
80. 16 SepOnly if you’re Polish. . .
81. 16 SepHili dialogue: Tuesday
82. 15 SepHili Dialogue: Sunday
83. 15 SepAvian dogfight: hobby versus swift
84. 15 SepProfessor Ceiling Cat gets a t.v. interview on atheism
85. 15 SepBelted kingfishers
86. 15 SepA rather personal interview with Dawkins
87. 14 SepAn animal with gears!
88. 14 SepTeen exorcists!
89. 13 SepDawkins talks books
90. 13 SepToday’s amazing facts from Twitter: marine mites and woodlouse flies
91. 13 SepMutant six-clawed lobster found
92. 13 SepLandscape with rising trout
93. 13 SepNASA launches a frog, and experimental biogeograhy
94. 13 SepHili dialogues: Saturday
95. 13 SepCaturday felid trifecta: A new Henri, Baihu has a walk, and an epic kitten fail
96. 12 SepCrane fly mimicry
97. 12 Sep“There is also a loud speaking, staunch atheist”: I have landed in Warsaw
98. 12 SepUncle Eric goes after Islam
99. 12 SepThe University of Manchester says: “Jurassic Park is fiction”
100. 12 SepHili Dialogue: Friday
101. 12 SepPoland: Dobrzyn to Warsaw
102. 11 SepDiscovery Institute goes after Ball State for banning ID in science courses
103. 11 SepDobrzyn: Wednesday
104. 11 SepA fabulous feathered mite
105. 11 SepWEIT installed in Hitchens bar
106. 11 SepDiscovery Institute ramps up pressure on BSU
107. 11 SepHili Dialogue, Thursday
108. 10 SepA Polish tongue twister
109. 10 SepA fascinating new book on Wallace and his ideas
110. 10 SepLeon Wieseltier attacks Steve Pinker for scientism
111. 10 SepWednesday in Dobrzyn
112. 10 SepA fish’s worst nightmare: the bobbit worm
113. 10 SepThe magic of reality
114. 10 SepDennett replies to Wieseltier
115. 10 SepHili Dialogue: Wednesday
116. 9 SepPoland, day 5
117. 9 SepNew Van Gogh painting revealed
118. 9 SepFlying spaghetti monster gets mainstream traction from NFL player
119. 9 SepWallace, Galton, and Gladstone
120. 9 SepAnother victim of misogynistic faith
121. 9 SepBats and a cat
122. 9 SepTuesday’s Hili Dialogue
123. 8 SepHili Dialogue: Sunday
124. 8 Sep“Love it or leave it”: Bush’s former press secretary says atheists should leave the US
125. 8 SepMeowwww!: The cat mantis
126. 8 SepA lazy weekend in Dobrzyn
127. 8 SepNew Zealand atheist teacher punched for not praying
128. 8 SepMonday: Hili Dialogue
129. 7 SepHili dialogue: Saturday
130. 7 SepCaturday felids: Teaching your cat about Jesus, and a video about British moggies
131. 7 SepThe Australian Election
132. 7 SepMoral equivalence?
133. 7 SepPoland: 3
134. 6 SepHili Dialogue: Friday
135. 6 SepThunderstorm: Idaho
136. 6 SepMoar flies – with added wasp
137. 6 SepStunning footage of bee mating flight
138. 6 SepPoland, part deux
139. 6 SepAnother canard dispelled: is science a faith?
140. 5 SepHili Dialogues
141. 5 SepChicago: gathering storms
142. 5 SepMore accommodationism: a letter to Nature
143. 5 SepReader gets ID book moved from science to religion section
144. 5 SepI’m in Poland!
145. 4 SepWhat the fly did with the pair of wings it lost
146. 4 SepWe wercynn scopes thrym gefrunon, hu se bard ellen fremede!
147. 4 SepTexas Pastafarian wins right to wear strainer in driver’s license photo
148. 4 SepRufous hummingbird
149. 4 SepFelid electronica
150. 3 SepA batch of orphaned squirrels
151. 3 SepMassachusetts Supreme Court to hear challenge to Pledge of Allegiance
152. 3 SepNYT profiles Genie Scott
153. 3 SepAn aphorism for atheism
154. 3 SepDiana Nyad completes her journey
155. 3 SepD-g saves cat’s life by donating blood
156. 3 SepNowhere Man
157. 3 SepReisen
158. 3 SepSteve Pinker gets Dawkins Award
159. 2 SepA flower hints at the appearance of an extinct bee
160. 2 SepClarence Darrow, criminality, and free will
161. 2 SepDiana Nyad is gonna make it!
162. 2 SepInternational Cat Day: Diddy stands alone
163. 2 SepShe made it
164. 2 SepLet it Be
165. 1 SepInternational Cat Day: Readers’ cats
166. 1 SepDavid Frost died
167. 1 SepAnother lame attack on evolutionary psychology
168. 1 SepTwo of Us

August 2013

1. 31 AugCaturday felid trifecta: Col. Meow wins a prize, Monopoly adopts cat token, and kittens rescued from NYT subway
2. 31 AugReligion poisons everything, including eagles
3. 31 AugTomorrow Never Knows
4. 31 AugBest mimicry ever
5. 30 AugPeregrinations and talks: Poland
6. 30 AugIn My Life
7. 30 AugDebate/discussion: Krauss vs. Craig
8. 30 AugAn essay for the language police
9. 30 AugThe adventures of Kingsford the piglet
10. 29 AugCats rule; d*gs drool
11. 29 AugDoes science make you moral?
12. 29 AugThe bible of psychiatric diagnosis exempts religion from “delusions”, even though it is one
13. 29 AugA most bizarre and mysterious cocoon
14. 29 AugLady Madonna
15. 28 AugSnow leopard baby boom
16. 28 AugMartin Luther King: The Speech
17. 28 AugFor No One
18. 28 AugLeaving faith behind: a reader’s story
19. 28 AugIn which I sell out to become famous
20. 27 AugBamboo shark walks the walk
21. 27 AugShe’s Leaving Home
22. 27 AugI have a hobby
23. 27 AugMore bad usage
24. 27 AugChristian liars tout Ray Comfort’s new creationist film; an atheist dismantles it
25. 27 AugSo human in aspect
26. 27 AugTwo comments in the queue
27. 26 AugInternational Cat Day: Readers’ cats (now with graphics and video!)
28. 26 AugMeasles back again, thanks to religion
29. 26 Aug“I Want to Tell You”
30. 26 AugAcademic administrators: hide your unbelief!
31. 26 AugGoodnight
32. 25 AugWhat happened to Ricky Gervais’s kitten?
33. 25 AugFamous physiologist embarrasses himself by claiming that the modern theory of evolution is in tatters
34. 25 AugTwo lovely mantids
35. 25 AugAbbey Road, Medley, side 2
36. 24 AugCaturday felid trifecta: photos that only cat owners can appreciate, another thieving moggie, and Merlyn’s birthday
37. 24 AugThe burqa issue resurfaces
38. 24 Aug“Blackbird”
39. 24 AugSerengeti lions: the best animal video-and-photo site of the year
40. 23 AugInternational Cat Day: Readers’ cats
41. 23 AugA heartening pro-science article? Not really.
42. 23 AugEleanor Rigby
43. 23 AugSpider mimics leaf
44. 23 AugA classic battle: man versus goose
45. 23 AugFriday favourite fly: Ornidia obesa
46. 22 AugA Google doodle for Debussy
47. 22 AugDawkins gets a break at last
48. 22 AugMatch this song!
49. 22 AugPenn Jillette: what he reads and how
50. 22 AugA cat translator
51. 21 AugFind the cats
52. 21 AugRock and roll is dead
53. 21 AugWhen did morality and moral responsibility begin?
54. 21 AugA good way to go
55. 21 AugWEIT: now in Ukrainian!
56. 20 AugInternational Cat Day: Readers’ cats
57. 20 AugGuest post: Darwin and Wallace at Burlington House
58. 20 AugIndian rationalist assassinated
59. 20 AugThe prescience of Coyne: Gould on Wallace
60. 20 AugThe attack of the killer sqrlz!
61. 19 AugRoolz update
62. 19 AugInternational Cat Day: Readers’ cats
63. 19 AugTanya Lurhmann strikes again; explain why it’s good to speak in tongues
64. 19 AugCreationist schools and Nessie: A lie used to attack a truth
65. 19 AugDo spiders bite Canadians?
66. 19 AugTeddy
67. 19 AugA shrew caravan
68. 18 AugWeird antennae: the ant-mugging fly and the phantom midge larva
69. 18 AugBritish Pentecostals urge HIV patients to give up medicines and rely on faith
70. 18 AugHalfway to crazy town
71. 18 AugReader survey: do you have a question for Richard Dawkins?
72. 18 Aug100 great photos from 2012
73. 18 AugFat cat stuck in catflap causes internet flap
74. 17 AugCaturday felids: a gift for the moggie who has everything and a profound cartoon
75. 17 AugUpdate on Chicago Dawkins event
76. 17 AugReader help
77. 17 AugThe New York Times hosts a superfluous debate on evolution vs. creationism, including more dumb accusations that science is based on faith
78. 17 AugWallace statue to be erected at the Natural History Museum– and you can help! (Upcoming UK events with Dawkins et al.)
79. 17 AugAnother putative case of mimicry in Lepidoptera
80. 16 AugA tiny juvenile bird
81. 16 AugNew boots
82. 16 AugThe 10 atheists “most wanted to debate” list, and the defeasibility test
83. 16 AugDawkins event (avec moi) in Chicago
84. 16 AugAnother pan of “Darwin’s Doubt”
85. 16 AugWhere I’ll eat this weekend
86. 16 AugBaby panda reunited with mom
87. 16 AugSentence structure fail
88. 15 AugDarwin did not cheat Wallace out of his rightful place in history
89. 15 AugOpen season on atheists at the Torygraph: two new attacks on heathens
90. 15 AugChinese zoo bilks viewers by labelling dog as a lion
91. 15 AugA curious new species
92. 15 AugPinker on Colbert: Calm down about terrorism
93. 15 AugDouble accomodationist fail
94. 15 AugCanadian lemmings!
95. 14 AugCat vs. kraken: no contest!
96. 14 AugFour ways of looking at Chicago
97. 14 AugWhat’s the story with Reza Aslan and his Jesus book?
98. 14 AugA doomed fly
99. 14 AugMormon theology and Mr. Deity
100. 14 AugPet me, you moron!
101. 14 AugHamster time
102. 13 AugChicago: sunset
103. 13 AugInternational Cat Day: Readers’ cats
104. 13 AugGermany apes Ireland: two Catholic hospitals refuse to help rape victim
105. 13 AugBicyclists should obey traffic laws
106. 13 AugWallace: Dispelling the Darkness
107. 13 AugThe University of Chicago police chief responds
108. 13 AugCrypsis in Felis silvestris catus
109. 13 AugD-g plays with itself
110. 12 AugCat-and-science themed Google doodle
111. 12 AugVariation under domestication: pigeons
112. 12 AugRobin Ince on why we don’t need religion
113. 12 AugFirst the bad news: Tennessee judge orders new name given to child named “Messiah”
114. 12 AugThen the good news:
115. 12 AugInternational Cat Day: Readers’ cats
116. 11 AugSunday morning stuff: a spider and a whale
117. 11 AugInternational Cat Day: Readers’ cats
118. 11 AugDawkins produces another furor over his tweets; forced to explain himself
119. 11 AugBest eye makeup ever?
120. 11 AugLunch with the Friendly Atheist
121. 11 AugOdious Ray Comfort movie (watch it below) to be distributed in public schools
122. 10 AugCarturday Felid trifecta: A cat in a million, Ricky Gervais’s Siamese, and how to pet your moggie
123. 10 AugGood news: acceptance of evolution up over last decade, Kentucky saves teaching of evolution
124. 10 AugA comment from a friend
125. 10 AugRequest for reader help
126. 10 AugThe depressing news
127. 10 AugNo. 2, The Killdeer
128. 9 AugTurtle all the way up
129. 9 AugReaders’ cats for International Cat Day
130. 9 AugA Catholic hospital claims that a restrictive abortion law still violates its ethics
131. 9 AugMuncie paper produces waffling editorial on mixing science and religion
132. 9 Aug“Oh Shenandoah”
133. 8 AugChicago plus sqlrz
134. 8 AugPinker pushback I: New Republic editor decries scientism
135. 8 AugIt’s World Cat Day
136. 8 AugPinker pushback II: Ross Douthat accuses Steve of scientism
137. 8 Aug“Deep River”
138. 7 Aug“The Water is Wide”
139. 7 AugPinker debones the “scientism” canard
140. 7 AugGood advice from Etti-Cat
141. 7 AugCatholics again say that death is preferable to birth control
142. 6 AugTwo cats for Tuesday
143. 6 AugI’ll Never Find Another You
144. 6 AugThe Miracle of the Herrings: Why Thomas Aquinas is a saint
145. 6 AugIndia bans captive dophins, Italians want to follow suit, and Costa Rica deep-sixes its zoos
146. 6 AugMouse tries to save buddy
147. 5 AugSomeone to Lay Down Beside Me
148. 5 AugReza Aslan: the Muslim Karen Armstrong
149. 5 AugLinking to videos without embedding them
150. 5 AugWhy the crucifixion and resurrection?
151. 5 AugRemembrances of Ken Miyata
152. 4 AugIt’s not only cats
153. 4 AugThe wonderful arthopods of Nicky Bay
154. 4 AugTanya Luhrmann recommends prayer for atheists
155. 4 AugSome heartening news from America’s heartland, and the Aslan controversy
156. 4 AugYankee Doodle Dandy
157. 3 AugCaturday felid: Simon’s cat, animation and documentary
158. 3 AugJumping spider catches fly
159. 3 AugTo all chowderheads, including Andrew Brown: the selfish gene is just a metaphor!
160. 3 AugMore highbrow science jokes
161. 3 AugThe elegance of the cat
162. 2 AugThe outsider test for faith
163. 2 AugMeet the new Pope: same as the old Pope
164. 2 AugThe dexterity of the osprey
165. 2 AugMore press on the Hedin affair
166. 2 AugFriday felid from Mars
167. 2 AugCorpses at snacktime
168. 2 AugGaming the system
169. 1 AugMatthew’s new book gets plaudits
170. 1 AugDiscovery Institute attacks Ball State’s prohibition on teaching intelligent design
171. 1 AugCanadian skunk gets head stuck in Tim Hortons cup; rescued by kindly cameraman
172. 1 AugBeauty in your backyard

July 2013

1. 31 JulChicago: sunset
2. 31 JulChicago Tribune makes winsome internet mistake
3. 31 JulCreationism once again threatens Texas schools
4. 31 JulReligion of peace sentences activist blogger to 600 lashes plus seven years in jail for insulting Islam
5. 31 JulBall State University president unequivocally rejects intelligent design; not good news for Eric Hedin or the Discovery Institute
6. 31 JulBSU spokeswoman hints at what will happen to Hedin’s class
7. 30 JulThree blasts from the past
8. 30 Jul“When you insult my faith you go right to the heart of what makes me me”
9. 30 JulThe right kind of creationist
10. 30 JulDaily squee: rescued kitten
11. 30 JulScience: it ain’t what we know, it’s what we *don’t* know that counts
12. 29 JulOy, have they got the wrong website!
13. 29 JulRex Murphy writes the worst anti-atheist column ever; Graham Templeton takes him apart
14. 29 JulOMG: I’m a homie!
15. 29 JulOnce again Larry Moran decries legal battles against creationism
16. 29 JulCat vs. cephalopod: cat wins!
17. 28 JulThe Satanic British
18. 28 JulSunday wildlife #1
19. 28 JulSunday wildlife #2: Carpe diem
20. 28 JulSunday wildlife #3: Mephitis crossing!
21. 28 JulThe “Divine command” theory of ethics: is it more common than we think?
22. 28 JulWhat’s the harm in believing something false, so long as it makes you happy?
23. 28 JulNovember 22, 1963
24. 27 JulCaturday felids: New Jalan ads and a nice essay on the domestic cat
25. 27 JulPennsylvania school swears it doesn’t teach creationism; the FFRF warns them anyway
26. 27 JulJane Austen to replace Darwin on the 10-pound note. You vote on the issue!
27. 27 JulThe limits of science
28. 26 JulWake up! Sandhill cranes calling
29. 26 JulReasonable science standards for Kentucky students called “fascistic” and “atheistic”
30. 26 JulThere were five kittens
31. 26 JulWanted: young creation “scientists”
32. 26 Jul2131 books go down
33. 25 JulGoogle doodle honors Rosalind Franklin
34. 25 JulInside Higher Ed: Academic freedom doesn’t allow you to teach junk science
35. 25 JulQuote of the day
36. 25 JulTrue facts about owls
37. 25 JulHow many kittens?
38. 24 JulBob Mankoff picks his favorite New Yorker cartoons
39. 24 JulWhy there is no objective morality
40. 24 JulMuncie newspaper calls for full disclosure of Hedin investigation
41. 24 JulSquirrel nap time
42. 24 JulRaccoon steals cats’ food
43. 23 JulDon Prothero guts Stephen Meyer’s new creationist book
44. 23 JulDan Dennett and Andrew Brown have a quick chat
45. 23 JulBall State University seals records of review panel on Eric Hedin (and bonus anti-ID letter)
46. 23 JulTempleton wastes another $3 million
47. 23 JulThe Guardian institutes BabyBlock
48. 23 JulI am the walrus
49. 22 JulFull moon rising over Wellington
50. 22 JulShow me the way to the next merocenose – the anal pedicel of a phoretic uropodine
51. 22 JulKeep orcas in the wild, not in aquaria
52. 22 JulIf Linnaeus had been a cat
53. 22 JulThe case of the dancing midges
54. 22 JulThe once and future king
55. 21 JulChicago + squirrel
56. 21 JulThere’s a sucker born every 50 million years
57. 21 JulAnother Ball State professor proves an embarrassment, and a BSU student says I’m motivated by Satan
58. 21 JulPenn and Teller expose a trick
59. 20 JulCaturday felid: a rationalist cat writes in about human evolution
60. 20 JulJ. K. Rowling: on the importance of knowing authorship
61. 20 JulFiat ad with a living car
62. 19 JulIn which Andrew Brown defends Heffernan’s preference for creationism and provokes me fearfully
63. 19 JulMother bear saves hapless cubs at Brooks Falls
64. 19 JulWhat questions were once thought insoluble by science, and therefore evidence for God?
65. 19 JulFriday feel-good: a rescued baby hedgehog
66. 18 JulHuman evolution: the hobbits were probably real
67. 18 JulA free nightingale ringtone
68. 18 JulEric Hedin case descends to farce as Ball State professor compares Hedin to George Zimmerman
69. 18 JulMy sqrlz
70. 18 JulSeparated even beyond death
71. 17 JulLuscinia megarhynchos sez: Wake up!
72. 17 JulAndrew Brown defends Papal indulgences involving Twitter
73. 17 JulDiana’s geeky Canadian dinosaur-coin collection
74. 17 JulMy haiku at TAM
75. 17 JulGodonomic$: another Hovind scam
76. 17 JulThe world’s cutest moth
77. 16 JulNostradamus Rex
78. 16 JulHeffernan’s creationism: was it a scam?
79. 16 JulKindly Canadian helps injured raven
80. 16 JulBear/salmon cam
81. 15 JulWhich of these things is not like the other?
82. 15 JulTAM 2013
83. 15 JulMusical flash mob in a London grocery store
84. 15 JulFFRF podcast
85. 15 JulEvolution 2013—Refreshments
86. 15 JulCicada summer
87. 14 JulBall State panel finishes investigation of Eric Hedin, refuses to divulge results
88. 14 JulLargesse!
89. 14 JulIntelligent falling
90. 14 JulJoyce Carol Oates, Twitter, misogyny, and atheism
91. 14 JulAn adorable geeky love song
92. 13 JulCaturday felids: A sad poem about Polish cats
93. 13 JulA former New Yorker fact-checker explains why she’s a creationist
94. 13 JulA snake mimics a spider
95. 12 JulCheetah chases impala over cars
96. 12 JulA creationist writes in
97. 12 JulAnother wonderful creature: the cicada-killing wasp
98. 12 JulPaddington Bear? Meet Victoria Kitten
99. 12 JulMy interview on Freethought Radio
100. 12 JulRandi got married
101. 12 JulMore epithets
102. 11 JulThe FFRF goes after more creationism in public schools
103. 11 JulThe Eternal Question
104. 11 JulA storm to remember
105. 11 JulInvitation to a debate
106. 10 JulInside Higher Ed, the Des Moines Register, ABC News, and Fox News discuss the Gonzalez case
107. 10 JulThe Tuatara Genome Project
108. 10 JulBayesian logic applied to an old bromide
109. 10 JulWhat Darwin looked like
110. 10 JulWonders of Life starts tonight in USA!
111. 10 JulTAM 2013
112. 9 JulGwine to Vegas!
113. 9 JulA miracle!
114. 9 JulAmazon customers misbehave over banana slicer
115. 9 JulDinosaurs and the paradox of free will
116. 9 JulEvolution 2013– Natural History
117. 9 JulAn atheist song
118. 9 JulThe world’s cutest kitten?
119. 8 JulMoonrise on Mars
120. 8 JulWhat I’m reading: more attacks on atheism (and one defense)
121. 8 JulGoogle doodle celebrates Roswell
122. 8 JulBill Maher: compilation of rules for religion
123. 8 JulSeeking source of quote
124. 7 JulMuncie paper reports on Ball State’s hiring of ID advocate Guillermo Gonzalez
125. 7 JulA defense of evolutionary psychology (mostly by Steve Pinker)
126. 7 JulSunday bird: common nighthawk nomming a bug
127. 6 JulCaturday felid: Spiderman cats and long jump fail
128. 6 JulAnother freak of nature: the Emei moustache toad
129. 6 JulNow I’m a “radical evolutionary atheist”
130. 6 JulLandscape: Idaho
131. 6 JulYet another liberal thinker tells us how God really is
132. 5 JulA protective mother bird
133. 5 JulThat was fast!
134. 5 JulMuncie newspaper’s readers turn against ID
135. 5 JulPoland’s first test-tube baby becomes a voluntary apostate
136. 5 JulJoey Chestnut wins again, downs 69 hot dogs in ten minutes
137. 4 JulA very precious fossil
138. 4 JulDiscovery Institute letter and petition (signed by 7000) reaches Ball State
139. 4 JulAre secularists slackers when it comes to relief efforts?
140. 4 JulHappy Fourth from the FFRF
141. 4 JulBad grammar!
142. 3 JulThe physics of a rising chain
143. 3 JulThe value of debates on religion
144. 3 JulRay Comfort challenges evolution, Jesus and Mo reply
145. 3 JulMorsi is out
146. 2 JulMandarin ducklings take flight
147. 2 JulMore on HedinGate: Discovery Institute claims that Hedin panel is stacked (with real scientists), and readers write in
148. 2 JulIngersoll on science vs. religion
149. 2 JulA bizarre and possibly aposematic bird
150. 2 JulBattlesnakes!
151. 1 JulMonday mammals
152. 1 Jul“Can I get a Darwin?”: the eloquence and humor of Jerry DeWitt
153. 1 JulFree e-book—today only!
154. 1 JulTwo disparate views of free will
155. 1 JulThe world’s ugliest bird?

June 2013

1. 30 JunThe best gif ever
2. 30 JunChicago: evenings
3. 30 JunKevin Padian discusses common misconceptions about evolution
4. 30 JunSteve Pinker on Desert Island Discs
5. 30 JunThe Sunday bird: kildeer
6. 29 JunCaturday felids: two cat photo sites
7. 29 JunShould atheists pray? A debate in the New York Times
8. 29 JunBaby tapir seeks name
9. 29 JunFive Books site reorganizes, becomes more user-friendly
10. 28 JunChicago: evening
11. 28 JunBizarre endorsements of Meyer’s intelligent-design book
12. 28 JunLame duck story: thanks to science, disabled mallard gets prosthetic foot
13. 28 JunA mimic eats its model
14. 27 JunDawkins as you’ve never seen him before
15. 27 JunProblem with comments
16. 27 JunCommenting fixed
17. 27 JunMathematician says he’s proven free will
18. 27 JunMike Huckabee embarrasses himself over gay marriage, as does the Christian Post
19. 26 JunYet another marvelous case of camouflage
20. 26 JunKarl Giberson defends Hedin, decries outsiders interfering with Ball State
21. 26 JunTwo great victories for gays: Supreme Court overturns obstacle to gay marriage and allows federal benefits
22. 26 JunDesperate, the Discovery Institute begs my readers to ask me to debate intelligent design and the Hedin case
23. 26 JunI can haz hair?
24. 25 JunMost definitely NSFW unless you work in a zoo: the tapir’s prehensile penis
25. 25 JunI can!
26. 25 JunBall State Provost talks about Hedin investigation, and some Hoosier reaction
27. 25 JunQuote of the Day
28. 24 JunThe world’s largest pet rodent
29. 24 JunSo much for peaceful Buddhists
30. 24 JunGrayling’s new book: a short but laudatory review
31. 24 JunShould we be respectful towards religious ignoramuses?
32. 24 JunBall State University hires another creationist
33. 23 JunDiscovery Institute claims that Meyer’s ID book is approved by one of Britain’s “top geneticists”; doesn’t mention that he’s a creationist
34. 23 JunMuncie Star-Press editorial supports teaching of intelligent design
35. 23 JunAn amazingly cryptic gecko
36. 23 JunInterspecific friends
37. 22 JunCaturday felid: El gato Morris runs for mayor of a Mexican city
38. 22 JunMore on HedinGate
39. 22 JunJesus says it’s okay to beat your wife
40. 22 JunHappy 65th birthday, your computer
41. 21 JunPeregrines: a truly fantastic photo (and a discussion)
42. 21 JunThe first review of Stephen Meyer’s new ID book
43. 21 JunThree easy science pieces
44. 21 JunCat and owner swim for their lives
45. 20 JunNational Geographic wildlife photos
46. 20 JunWhat caused the Cambrian explosion?
47. 20 JunThe view from Rocknest… on Mars
48. 20 JunGirl guides drop allegiance to God (but keep it to the Queen)
49. 20 JunA parasitic red plant
50. 20 JunWhat to do if you find a baby bird
51. 19 JunTwo by Don Henley
52. 19 JunDavid Brooks: The brain is not the mind
53. 19 JunJesus ‘n’ Mo(rality)
54. 19 JunAn interview with ex-preacher Jerry DeWitt
55. 19 JunThe lost world of Fossil Lake
56. 18 JunA bad review on Amazon
57. 18 JunChicago: One evening, three views
58. 18 JunHow the cheetah gets its noms
59. 18 Jun“No Hindu monkey god”: One of Hedin’s students exposes his Christian proselytizing, and I’m called a bully
60. 18 JunA fox asks for help?
61. 18 JunWhy not a nice fruit fly?
62. 18 JunYour worst nightmare
63. 17 JunChipmunk Monday
64. 17 JunA strange conception of free will
65. 17 JunFoodtrip!
66. 17 JunSean Carroll: There is no classical world
67. 17 JunMoar policy: emails
68. 17 JunIt’s alive!
69. 16 JunSalon calls atheists “as obnoxious as Christians” for trying to stop distribution of Bibles in U.S. schools
70. 16 JunThe Saudi woman who dared to drive
71. 16 Jun21 animals you didn’t know existed
72. 16 JunA robot fails the Turing Cat Test
73. 15 JunCaturday felids: cat contest winners and miscellanious moggieana
74. 15 JunRichard Dawkins’s new book, and an interview with him today
75. 15 JunLatest news on HedinGate from the Muncie newspaper
76. 15 JunSo much for benign religion, Rabbi Sacks
77. 15 JunSaturday critters
78. 14 JunWolf spider and offspring
79. 14 JunHave they no shame?
80. 14 JunRemarkable camouflage in birds
81. 14 JunAustralian television mocks religion
82. 14 JunNew Simon’s cats: “Screen grab” and “Flower bed”
83. 13 JunChicago: Four moods
84. 13 JunRabbi Sacks is an ignorant fool
85. 13 JunSupreme Court: Genes can’t be patented
86. 13 JunMore on The Secret Life of Cats: tonight in the UK
87. 13 JunThursday dipteran humor
88. 12 JunScience vs. religion: comparing their progress
89. 12 JunUncle Eric once again goes after scientism and New Atheism, touting “other ways of knowing.” III. Scientism
90. 12 JunA conundrum: cats vs. God
91. 12 JunBBC 2 show TOMORROW: The secret life of the cat
92. 12 JunThe only video of Anne Frank
93. 11 JunDiscovery Institute decries Cat Beard Contest
94. 11 JunCat beard contest: vote for the winner
95. 11 JunYou really can see an owl’s eyes through its ears
96. 11 JunThe cosmos: Christian style
97. 11 JunDemonstration of some physical principle I don’t understand
98. 11 JunThe Flamingos’ greatest hit
99. 10 JunToday’s Google Doodle honors Maurice Sendak
100. 10 JunLegal scholar: teaching intelligent design in public universities is both a scientific and First Amendment no-no
101. 10 JunTrain illusion
102. 10 JunAmateur theologians: You can’t be a determinist if you feel like you have free will
103. 10 JunNorm MacDonald believes in God, but not in science
104. 9 JunSunday morning bun
105. 9 JunSunday morning bird facts
106. 9 JunUpdates on the Hedin case
107. 9 JunNecrophilia in a tropical frog
108. 9 JunBill Maher takes apart Reagan
109. 8 JunCaturday felid: Russian gangster cat caught trying to smuggle cellphone into prison
110. 8 JunRoolz and policies: Anonymity on this site
111. 8 JunSlate goes after scientism
112. 8 JunFacing declining ticket sales, Creation Museum opens zip-lining facility and other godly attractions
113. 7 JunFor real
114. 7 JunUncle Eric once again goes after scientism and New Atheism, touting “other ways of knowing.” II. Those other ways of knowing
115. 7 Jun“Teach the controversy, not Intelligent Design”
116. 7 JunGrizzly vs. GoPro
117. 7 JunFriday feline frolics
118. 6 JunSelf-aggrandizement
119. 6 JunChicago: sunset
120. 6 JunUncle Eric once again goes after scientism and New Atheism, touting “other ways of knowing.” I. The supposed failures of New Atheism
121. 6 JunAnother DNA anniversary, which tells a different story from the textbooks
122. 6 JunNYT readers respond to Tanya Luhrman’s op-ed on belief
123. 6 JunWho izzit?
124. 5 JunA lesson on how to talk to sleazy reporters, and more on the Hedin case
125. 5 JunO Canada! CBC pixillates video of mating cicadas
126. 5 JunLouisiana legislators show their ignorance of (and opposition to) science
127. 5 JunZack Kopplin debates Luskin and Medved
128. 5 JunColin McGinn resigns in wake of sexual harassment charges
129. 5 JunBest of last month’s cat videos
130. 4 JunMore about turtles
131. 4 JunOprah Winfrey disgraces my alma mater
132. 4 JunAtheism among Anglophone scientists. I. The U.S.
133. 4 JunInterlude: Feynman on honors
134. 4 JunAtheism among Anglophone scientists. II. The UK
135. 4 JunA book up for auction
136. 3 JunThe discovery of the molecule of heredity: Matthew’s new Guardian piece
137. 3 JunI keep a safe lab
138. 3 JunRadio debate: Dan Barker vs. Casey Luskin on the Ball State case
139. 3 JunU.S. beats Germany at soccerball
140. 3 JunReaders’ photos: more wildlife from Idaho
141. 3 JunGermans lose their longest word
142. 2 JunIs religion a mental illness?
143. 2 JunThe monster tiger beetle: a “voracious killing machine”
144. 2 JunA few comments that didn’t get through
145. 2 JunTurtle origins
146. 2 JunI saw Santa!
147. 1 JunCaturday felid roundup: anomalous felid loves vacuum cleaner, a medieval cat manuscript, and two rescued moggies
148. 1 JunKilling a tick – a suitable subject for entertainment?
149. 1 JunAnn Arbor: noms
150. 1 JunAmazing photo of chemical bonds

May 2013

1. 31 MayChicago: dawn
2. 31 MayThe art of Wally Gilbert
3. 31 MayD-g duped by statue
4. 31 MayTanya Luhrmann: why religious people don’t need “belief”
5. 31 MayCatboarding
6. 30 May‘Genetical information’: 60 years old today!
7. 30 MayThe Great Man: a chat with James Dewey Watson
8. 30 MayFalconCam 2013
9. 30 MayNothing to do with religion
10. 30 MayFishing kittens born in D.C.
11. 29 MayChicago: photo and movie
12. 29 MayAlton Lemon, First Amendment pioneer, dies
13. 29 MayInterview with J. D. Watson
14. 29 MayWould it help if this person read my book?
15. 29 MayName the mammal
16. 28 MaySoul song week: 8. I forgot one
17. 28 MayGoogle Street View goes to the Galápagos!
18. 28 MayVatican to atheists: you’re still going to hell
19. 28 MayDesign fail
20. 27 MayAgile cat and captured bat
21. 27 MayPhilosophy of the gaps?
22. 27 MayChicago: evening
23. 27 MayAtheism makes some gains: humanist “prayer” in Arizona legislature invokes religious counter-prayer
24. 27 MayScience jokes
25. 26 MayCat-related coffee largesse and art
26. 26 MayEvolution is cleverer than you are: cockroaches avoid poison baits by rewiring their taste system (and another paper on gene-culture coevolution)
27. 26 MayBall State redux: Stenger’s take, an antisemitic website, and a nutty professor
28. 26 MayEnter the cat beard contest
29. 25 MayCaturday felid: Stewie, officially certified as world’s longest cat, dies
30. 25 MayA “betrayal of Islam”?
31. 25 MayMore fallout from the Ball State affair
32. 25 MayGreat soul songs. 6: “Give me just a little more time”
33. 24 MayFour-pound hairball removed from tiger
34. 24 MaySoul song week. 6: “Ask the Lonely”
35. 24 MayPope Francis inadvertently performs exorcism, then condescends to atheists
36. 24 MayMy interview at Random Rationality
37. 24 MayUncle Eric is back!
38. 23 MaySoul song week: 5. I Was Made to Love Her
39. 23 MayMore on the Ball State affair: Christian News Network reporting standards far lower than that of the BSU student paper
40. 23 MayRicky Gervais causes a stir by suggesting that people send $$ rather than prayers to Oklahoma
41. 23 MayCat beards (and a contest)
42. 23 MayYet more felids: the Javan leopard
43. 22 MaySoul song week: 4. You’re All I Need to Get By
44. 22 MayAtheist tornado survivor refuses to thank the lord
45. 22 MayLee Strobel endorses Ball State’s teaching of creationism in a science class
46. 22 MayInsect photography workshop in Belize
47. 22 MayCommon misquotations
48. 21 MaySoul song week: 3. “Heat Wave” and “Nowhere to Run”
49. 21 MayLocal paper reports on Ball State creationism class; Ball State weasels, citizens support teaching creationism
50. 21 MayUSA Today reports on Ball State creationism class
51. 21 MaySquirrel update
52. 21 MayTwo math posers
53. 21 MayOy, is it hot!
54. 20 MaySoul Song Week. 2: “Since I Lost My Baby”
55. 20 MayThe weirdest centipede ever
56. 20 MayWhere the conflict really lies
57. 20 MaySupreme Court to rule on First Amendment case of prayers in town meetings
58. 19 MaySoul song week: 1. “Ooo Baby Baby”
59. 19 MayA strange form of crypsis in butterflies
60. 19 MayAdam and Eve conundrum solved—and an amputated leg restored by God
61. 19 MaySunday funnies
62. 18 MayCaturday felids: two tenacious cats
63. 18 MayThe FFRF gains another victory against Christian prosyletizing in the college classroom
64. 18 MayTautology!
65. 18 MayLandscape: Idaho
66. 17 MayChicago: Tuesday evening
67. 17 MayReaders’ photos: Virginia rail (and a trick for photographing birds)
68. 17 MayMalaria parasite appears to change the host mosquito’s behavior in an adaptive way
69. 17 MayBall State agrees to investigate science course infected with Christianity
70. 17 MayFriday afternoon animal snaps
71. 16 MayAn eagle takes flight
72. 16 MayThe Freedom from Religion Foundation to Ball State University: cease and desist your religious indoctrination
73. 16 MayNewspaper readers asked to defend religion against science’s “no-Adam-and-Eve” finding
74. 16 MayPorsche finds its way home
75. 15 MayNational Geographic Traveler photo contest
76. 15 MayPublic school forces students to hear about Jesus
77. 15 MayMayoral candidate endorsed by Jesus
78. 15 MayHigh school student suing for First Amendment violation outs herself
79. 14 MayFocus
80. 14 MayUncle Eric hangs it up
81. 14 MayIrresponsible journalism: The Chronicle of Higher Education goes to bat for woo-driven evolution
82. 14 MayYou’re not helping
83. 14 MayGive that cat a burger!
84. 13 MayMonday morning biology lesson
85. 13 MayChicago: Dawn and dusk
86. 13 MayPew poll shows that Israelis more optimistic about peace than Palestinians; world sentiment on side of Palestine
87. 13 MayI get email: Faith vs. facts
88. 13 MayCoffee: the way it should be
89. 13 MayI ate his liver with some fava beans and nice Chianti
90. 12 MayThree years of the Sun in three minutes
91. 12 MayTempleton, Sean Carroll and the ethics of mixing science and faith
92. 12 MaySpeaking of the Sun. . .
93. 12 MayCreationist neurosurgeon speaks at yet another commencement
94. 12 MayFarewell, Commander Hadfield!
95. 11 MayCaturday felid trifecta: Popcorn kittens, boxophilic cats, and a girl and her moggie
96. 11 MayCheerleaders win right to display Jesus banners at public school sporting events
97. 11 MayReaders’ wildlife photos: the malachite sunbird (a creationist icon)
98. 11 MayRabbi Wolpe impugns Dawkins’s status as “world’s leading intellectual”
99. 10 MayA little Feynman for Friday
100. 10 MayChicago: fog and bird
101. 10 MayWhy on earth do narwhals have tusks?
102. 10 MayGod help me
103. 10 MayCat versus stoat
104. 9 MayReaders’ photographs: bald eagle
105. 9 MayI get email: A Christian Christian!
106. 9 MayNeil deGrasse Tyson loses it in a discussion about science
107. 9 MayTrue facts about sad cats
108. 8 MayTweet of the day: the swift
109. 8 MayNational Cancer Institute researchers fail to notice ten-legged cat
110. 8 MayPanorama from Grandfather Mountain (and a creationist teacher)
111. 8 MayPew report on Muslim world paints a distressing picture
112. 8 MayReader photo: baby mantid
113. 8 MayA vertebrate
114. 7 MayTweet of the day – the song thrush
115. 7 MayWhat is compatibilism, really?
116. 7 MayGoogle Street View discovers new cat species!
117. 7 MayOy vey—a glossy Templeton-funded “science” magazine
118. 7 MayA Google doodle worth watching
119. 6 MayHyenas and d*gs: convergent evolution
120. 6 MayThe great Bert Jansch
121. 6 MayAn ex-Muslim exposes the “Islamophobia” canard
122. 6 MayNineteen more killed by “religion of peace”
123. 5 MayProfessor Ceiling Cat is poorly
124. 5 MayA few words in favor of philosophy
125. 4 MayCaturday felids: Doctor Who kittehs
126. 4 MayA Christian sends me email
127. 4 MayI saw a salamander, and other notes from North Carolina
128. 3 MaySpeaking of luxurious cat furniture. . .
129. 3 MayIs there moral responsibility?
130. 3 MayMy talk at Appalachian State University
131. 3 MayA modern bestiary
132. 3 MayNew Yorker cartoons on religion
133. 2 MayAn awesome animation of single atoms
134. 2 MayKitty workout
135. 2 MayWallace Year updates
136. 2 MayWhy we need to dispel the notion of dualistic free will
137. 2 MayTwo birds
138. 2 MayThe perils of “balanced” reporting
139. 1 MayCharlotte, North Carolina proclaims “Day of Reason”
140. 1 MayTalk tomorrow at Appalachian State
141. 1 MayThe consensus of philosophers
142. 1 MayHenri: capitalist hypocrite
143. 1 MayJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ “Islamophobia”

April 2013

1. 30 AprTwo photos for Tuesday
2. 30 AprThe new Natural Theology dismantled
3. 30 AprThanks, Richard (I think)!
4. 30 AprFour horsemen, one seaman
5. 29 AprFog: Chicago
6. 29 AprSpring boots
7. 29 AprMore creationism sneaks into public schools
8. 29 AprPuffHo: Richard Dawkins may not be a racist, but he’s xenophobic
9. 29 AprMonday felid
10. 28 AprChicago: Dawn with fog
11. 28 AprMy visit to Purdue
12. 28 AprA shout-out from Jad Abumrad
13. 28 AprOn the usefulness of Twitter: #spaceape vs #aquaticape
14. 28 AprA modest proposal: testing the Cinderella Effect
15. 27 AprCaturday felid trifecta: Parrot imitates cat, cat gets stuck in car grill, woman calls cops for “kittens having sex in her yard”
16. 27 AprSaturn visible tonight, complete with rings
17. 27 AprIs there any hope for people like this?
18. 27 AprAll I’m capable of: kitten nomming pancaeks
19. 27 AprDutch psychologist admits research fraud—and the lessons
20. 27 AprChicago sunset
21. 26 AprRed panda gymnastics for Friday
22. 26 AprTwo profiles of Sam Harris
23. 26 AprDolphin whiskers and cetacean evolution
24. 26 AprWhy are we atheists so angry?
25. 26 AprThree jokes I made up
26. 26 AprAt last—views from North Korea!
27. 25 Apr“Science” course at Ball State University sneaks in religion
28. 25 AprDNA day celebration meeting – online NOW!
29. 25 AprTalk in North Carolina next week
30. 25 AprFerrets in a bowl of packing peanuts
31. 25 AprDawkins named world’s top thinker
32. 24 AprCat paradise
33. 24 AprJim Al-Khalili mistakes unpredictability for free will
34. 24 AprHawks hatching today
35. 24 AprPeter Hitchens tries (and fails) to respond to me about evolution
36. 24 AprRaccoon versus hose
37. 24 AprA great culinary idea
38. 23 AprRichie Havens died
39. 23 AprPrize-winning Templeton essay: death is good for humanity
40. 23 AprMatthew haz a new book!
41. 23 AprSea anemones can swim!
42. 23 AprKeith Kloor strikes again
43. 22 AprMonday felid
44. 22 AprMy visit to Oakland Unversity and the Bat Zone
45. 22 AprEarth Day doodle
46. 22 AprAndrew Brown plays the Islamophobia card
47. 22 AprPatient like a hunter: taking pictures of Earth from space
48. 22 AprKansas public school mandates “Creation Truth Foundation” assemblies
49. 22 AprIslam apparently behind Boston bombing
50. 21 AprA reader’s beautiful cat who lives in a beautiful place
51. 21 AprThe “Islamophobia” canard revisited
52. 21 AprAtheist Peter Higgs decries the name “God particle”
53. 21 AprThe Ceiling Cat particle
54. 21 AprBats on tap
55. 20 AprCaturday felid bonanza: Russian cat licks vacuum cleaner hose, other big cats play Maru, and cat walks a toy
56. 20 AprWinner(s), “Dear evolution” contest
57. 20 AprYay! Chopra went after me!
58. 20 AprTrue (and salacious) facts about the duck
59. 19 AprWhich are smarter: dogs or cats?
60. 19 AprThe ultimate dumb atheist-bashing article
61. 19 AprOwlCam!
62. 19 AprCoelacanth genome sequenced
63. 18 Apr“Dear evolution” letters: animals bemoan their lot
64. 18 AprFight: Moray eel vs sea snake
65. 17 AprChicago, slight drizzle
66. 17 AprA (formerly) reputable publisher sells out to creationists
67. 17 AprAlex Wild is having a print sale
68. 17 AprGoshawk hunting
69. 17 AprBooks on the Cambrian worth buying
70. 17 AprHow many cats can you name?
71. 16 AprCat versus machine
72. 16 AprGenes should not be patented
73. 16 AprTalks at Purdue tomorrow and Thursday
74. 16 AprAnother case of Muslim sex-segregated seating in the UK
75. 16 AprAn Orthodox Jewish cat?
76. 15 AprBig fun today!
77. 15 AprAn amazing Japanese commercial (and a note on Tippett and Krauss)
78. 15 AprA bizarre critique of Christopher Hitchens: he wasn’t a skeptic about his cancer
79. 15 AprA cryptic boxing mantid
80. 15 AprMovie recommendation: Amour
81. 15 AprTurkish musician sentenced for anti-Islamic tweets
82. 14 AprTrue facts about the sea pig
83. 14 AprWhy do people pretend that religion isn’t responsible for creationism?
84. 14 AprMy squirrel
85. 14 AprThe Jew in the plastic bag revisited
86. 14 AprThe world’s most bravest goose
87. 13 AprCaturday Felid: A new Simon’s Cat
88. 13 AprThe bad seed: Peter Hitchens blames atheism for Stalin and Hitler
89. 13 AprSpeaking of Hitchenses,
90. 13 AprBug-eyed!
91. 12 AprA milestone
92. 12 AprStupid religious rule #11734, and a note on my ancestry
93. 12 AprBats on tap
94. 12 AprOn to the next ten million
95. 12 AprThe sealion that ruined everything
96. 11 AprCambridge Science Festival infested with faith
97. 11 AprGiant wasps’ nest found in Canary Islands
98. 11 AprI get email
99. 11 AprWhy didn’t God heal them?
100. 11 AprBats can be squee
101. 10 AprPeregrinations: talks at Oakland University and Purdue
102. 10 AprWhat’s up with North Korea?
103. 10 AprLatest Gallup Poll on U.S. acceptance of evolution: flatlined, as usual
104. 9 AprA living scarf: The blanket octopus
105. 9 AprAnother phrase I hate
106. 9 AprBusiness Insider screws up evolution reporting
107. 9 AprApril Fool’s joke gone wrong: radio announcers suspended for science prank
108. 8 AprSwimming lessons
109. 8 AprMargaret Thatcher died
110. 8 AprIslamophobia again
111. 8 AprAnnette died
112. 8 AprAn optical illusion dance
113. 8 AprA beautiful cat
114. 7 AprGoodall apologizes for plagiarism
115. 7 AprHeartbreaking new poll: a third of Americans want Christianity as the state religion
116. 7 AprAcceptance of evolution vs. religiosity in the U.S.
117. 7 AprA nesting cat
118. 6 AprCaturday felids: Cats and boxes
119. 6 AprWhy are there miracles for Africans but not Americans?
120. 6 AprMimicry: Two mantids, one cryptic and one aposematic
121. 6 AprBonus felid: Gizmo, a bad cat
122. 6 AprRaccoons are smarter than you are
123. 5 AprBizarre creatures of the deep sea
124. 5 AprWhat did science and religion discover last year?
125. 5 AprSalamander pokes its ribs through its skin to defend itself
126. 5 AprJREF’s Pigasus Awards
127. 5 AprNo state religion for North Carolina
128. 4 AprTwo sunsets in Chicago
129. 4 AprDesmond Tutu wins Templeton Prize
130. 4 AprIt’s snowing in the UK
131. 4 AprDawkins Foundation site hacked by Muslims
132. 4 AprNew attacks on New Atheists (and one defense)
133. 4 AprA.C. Grayling on the Colbert Report
134. 4 AprRoger Ebert died
135. 3 AprHump day boots
136. 3 AprPlaying the “Islamophobia” card
137. 3 AprThe life and death of Darwin
138. 3 AprNorth Carolina legislators want to abolish freedom of religion
139. 3 AprSquirrel update
140. 2 AprBiologically-themed Google doodle
141. 2 AprA Sunday lunch in Chinatown
142. 2 AprRay Comfort thinks that “bibliophile” is an insult
143. 2 AprAngier on dragonflies
144. 2 Apr“Formal” religiosity declining in US, but nonbelief stays level
145. 1 AprStart-of-quarter boots
146. 1 AprDan Dennett on the BBC today
147. 1 AprMust we assume naturalism to do science?
148. 1 AprA truly bizarre salamander
149. 1 AprA world destroyed by cuteness

March 2013

1. 31 MarAn Easter treat: French cats play ‘Dansons la Capucine’
2. 31 MarEaster in the Philippines: Man crucifies himself yearly
3. 31 MarEaster in Poland
4. 31 MarNasty atheist-bashing in Salon
5. 31 MarObama’s Easter message: he ain’t no atheist
6. 30 MarCaturday felid: The Private Life of a Cat
7. 30 MarGuest post: Natural selection in real time via road kill
8. 30 MarA nice anti-hate video from the Anti-Defamation League
9. 30 MarClay Naff: Coyne isn’t filling that God-shaped hole
10. 30 MarTED revokes license for TEDx West Hollywood event!
11. 29 MarA chocolate quiz: where does the missing square go?
12. 29 MarHappy cruciversary!
13. 29 MarA slew of apologists and atheist butters in The New Statesman
14. 29 MarMy interview in Haaretz
15. 29 MarCan you match this chimp?
16. 28 MarThe death of Annie Darwin
17. 28 MarAndrew Brown suggests that atheists are turning Muslims into creationists
18. 28 MarI get email: an Orthodox Jew questions evolution—YOU answer him
19. 28 MarThe way it should be
20. 27 Mar“Dear Old Darwin”: Hooker-Darwin correspondence to be published
21. 27 MarJane Goodall apparently guilty of plagiarism and sloppy science writing
22. 27 MarA fish with a see-through head
23. 27 MarIs the notion of “God” coherent?
24. 27 MarAn old favorite
25. 26 MarAn invitation to shoot some fish in a barrel
26. 26 MarSpring break footwear
27. 26 MarFrans de Waal tries to give atheists a good hiding in Salon; Anthony Grayling takes him down
28. 26 MarShake that thing!
29. 26 MarQuote of the week: BioLogos insists that the creator is the Christian God
30. 26 MarShoot me before I post again!
31. 25 MarYet another experiment showing that conscious “decisions” are made unconsciously, and in advance
32. 25 MarCommenting problem
33. 25 MarHow the faithful see free will
34. 25 MarTard the Grumpy Cat sells out to Friskies
35. 25 MarBill Maher on the Pope and his church
36. 24 MarChicago from space
37. 24 MarDoes eroding belief in free will cause cheating? Failure to replicate a famous result.
38. 24 MarSusan Jacoby on atheism: “Five Books” interview and her recommendations for godless readings
39. 24 MarAtheist “church”: cat worship
40. 23 MarCaturday felid: One cat, three lives
41. 23 MarTEDx West Hollywood: Garbage in, garbage out
42. 23 MarA beautiful octopus, new to science
43. 23 MarNature editorial supports science at the Field Museum
44. 23 MarA few words and phrases I hate
45. 23 MarFree Kurosawa movies for the weekend!
46. 22 MarA Venn diagram of woo and bollocks
47. 22 MarEvolution video wins 1 minute student film prize
48. 22 MarIsland faunas and the Falkland Islands fox
49. 22 MarOy vey: TEDx continues the woo—now with more self help!
50. 22 MarDavid Cameron osculates the rump of faith
51. 22 MarTEDx West Hollywood administrators planned to show Graham Hancock video
52. 21 MarAnother intrusive cheetah
53. 21 MarRoyal Institution rescued!
54. 21 MarBioLogos and Templeton waste more money on accommodationism
55. 21 MarTurtle-Crunching Crocs and Cretaceous Wildfires at the Dinosaur Discovery Museum
56. 21 MarA. R. Wallace show on BBC tonight
57. 20 MarDeath of the world’s most deluded woman: Umm Nidal, mother of “martyrs”
58. 20 MarMoar mimicry: moth mimics spider, and other cool stuff
59. 20 MarThe most luckiest man in the world
60. 19 MarCatCam: a film
61. 19 MarIs religion hardwired?
62. 19 MarFor your delectation: more hatred and lunacy from the Palestinian Authority
63. 19 MarHow to write good science
64. 18 MarFinal exam boots
65. 18 Mar“Fine-tuning”: is the multiverse a Hail Mary pass by godless physicists?
66. 18 MarCornell HawkCam is back!
67. 17 MarDave Allen on Catholicism
68. 17 MarThe “mystery” of consciousness
69. 17 MarTomeo and Juiecat
70. 17 MarEGGstraordinary!
71. 17 MarGoings on at the Dinosaur Discovery Museum, Kenosha, Wisconsin
72. 16 MarCaturday felids: A very old moggy and some record-holding cats
73. 16 MarGod of the gaps—still with us
74. 16 MarMississippi tries end run around the First Amendment by sneaking prayer into schools
75. 16 MarWater + Sound = Win
76. 15 MarFriday footwear
77. 15 MarTEDx’s guidelines for science and pseudoscience, and how to participate
78. 15 MarEvolution and Christianity: 2. Mike Aus on their incompatibility
79. 15 MarAmazing ant mimics photographed by Alex Wild
80. 15 MarA big new comet, visible with the naked eye
81. 14 MarNeil deGrasse Tyson blows it big time
82. 14 MarDiscovery of Higgs boson really, truly confirmed
83. 14 MarA mountain of greenhouse gas (and housekeeping)
84. 14 MarA victory for real science over woo: TEDx removes Sheldrake and Hancock talks from YouTube channel
85. 14 MarQuote of the day
86. 14 MarProof that cats are the root of all evil
87. 13 MarThe grace of a moggie
88. 13 MarEnough, already!
89. 13 MarEvolution and Christianity: 1. Christian homeschooling parents dismayed by creationist textbooks, accommodationist books on the way
90. 13 MarHabemus Papam!
91. 13 MarHenri continues to pimp Friskies
92. 13 MarAn Argentinian Pope
93. 13 MarSophisticated Signology
94. 12 MarEnd-of-quarter boots
95. 12 MarFootball player bitten by affronted pine marten on the pitch
96. 12 MarHuffPo + Ted = nonsense
97. 12 MarBoneheaded statement of the week
98. 11 MarAn inadvertent truth
99. 11 MarHow should we be moral?: Three papers and a good book
100. 11 MarLemme out!
101. 11 MarGoogle doodle honors Douglas Adams
102. 11 MarDo modern dinosaurs have a theory of mind?
103. 10 MarNext university corrupted by Templeton: Stanford
104. 10 MarMore woo and anti-science rants at TEDx
105. 10 MarStupendous 13th century illustrated manuscript
106. 10 MarBagging the cat
107. 9 MarCaturday felid: weather cats
108. 9 MarDawkins on The Simpsons tomorrow
109. 9 MarWomen in Science Day at the Dinosaur Discovery Museum
110. 9 MarNew Atheism once again pronounced dead, still refuses to lie down
111. 9 MarDolphins trap fish with nets made of mud
112. 9 MarWe can haz maths?
113. 8 MarChicago’s Field Museum must continue its historic mission of high quality scientific research
114. 8 MarHe’s baaaaack! Peter Hitchens counters, ineffectually and splenetically
115. 8 MarWhy don’t any organisms detect radio waves? Or – what’s so special about the visible spectrum?
116. 8 MarHeeeeeere’s Jerry
117. 8 MarFriday felid final: Snow leopard in the wild, and mom rescues tree-bound kitten
118. 7 MarThe TSA blows it again
119. 7 MarTEDx has second thoughts about Rupert Sheldrake’s talk, asks viewers to weigh in
120. 7 MarGuest post: The most poignant episode in all of the history of science
121. 7 MarWhat is it like to be a cat?
122. 6 MarMother Teresa article, gratis
123. 6 MarLa neige est belle aujourd’hui
124. 6 MarPeter Hitchens replies to me; I answer him
125. 6 MarTEDx talks completely discredited: Rupert Sheldrake speaks, argues that speed of light is dropping!
126. 5 MarThey fly by moonlight: the eyes of a nocturnal wasp
127. 5 MarA new exposé of Mother Teresa shows that she—and the Vatican—were even worse than we thought
128. 5 MarA physicist proposes, nerdily
129. 5 MarHelp a doubting reader!
130. 5 MarMother Teresa paper online (in French)
131. 4 MarThe Vatican Rag
132. 4 MarMuslim anti-vaxers slow eradication of polio
133. 4 MarLa Marche de l’Empereur
134. 4 MarPeter Hitchens: diehard antievolutionist
135. 4 MarA gorilla/human reunion
136. 3 MarSunday jugglers: solves Rubik’s cube while juggling, another juggler plays the piano
137. 3 MarIn which I once again play Grayling’s Bulldog, biting Peter Hitchens
138. 3 MarPenguins, beautiful penguins
139. 2 MarCaturday felids: World’s bravest cat and a protective d-g
140. 2 MarA new humanist book by Grayling, and a critique by Appleyard
141. 2 MarAt the grocery store
142. 2 MarWhy is Darwin more famous than Wallace?
143. 1 MarGirls just want to be pope
144. 1 MarMy 5000th post: Henri sells out
145. 1 MarJehovah’s Witnesses and blood transfusion
146. 1 MarQuolls!
147. 1 MarReligion section at Barnes and Noble: same books, different label
148. 1 MarA felid and friend for 5000th Post Day
149. 1 MarFinal Friday Funnies

February 2013

1. 28 FebIce age art
2. 28 FebWhy assault weapons?
3. 28 FebSquirrel report
4. 28 FebAndrew Sullivan suspects that Pope Benedict is gay
5. 28 FebBeautiful, brutal ctenophores
6. 28 FebThe path of righteousness
7. 27 FebWednesday funnies: creationism and the Papacy
8. 27 FebBuzzsaw!: An ancient spiral-toothed shark
9. 27 FebAnother case of individual selection trumping group selection
10. 27 FebHow to make Abe happy or sad
11. 27 FebOMG: a squirrel builds its nest on my windowsill
12. 26 FebStorm warning footwear
13. 26 FebReaders’ wildlife: owls! (and a new piece on owl research)
14. 26 FebE. O. Wilson mistakenly touts group selection (again) as a key factor in human evolution
15. 26 FebConundrum
16. 26 FebLots of snow
17. 25 FebGuest post: Bigwig Oxford theologian tries to harmonize science and faith
18. 25 FebMore sex scandal in the Catholic church: Cardinal of Scotland resigns because of sexual improprieties
19. 25 FebPawprints 4: Ancient monk immortalizes his cat
20. 25 FebRabbi Lord Sacks touts atheist churches
21. 24 FebFamous physicists appear in film using cosmology to prove God
22. 24 FebCrowFest: winter frolics and pan thievery
23. 24 FebBonus Felid: Wallace and the Bornean Bay Cat
24. 24 FebMark Vernon praises antievolution book as “the most despised science book of 2012”
25. 24 FebPredators and scavengers pick up eggcam
26. 23 FebCaturday felids: two disabled cats, two success stories
27. 23 FebA good new book
28. 23 FebGwine to TAM
29. 23 FebTrue facts about the chameleon
30. 22 FebToday’s Google doodle
31. 22 FebTroy Jollimore: how do we replace religiously-based ethics with secular ones?
32. 22 FebGeorge Galloway and his antisemitic behavior
33. 22 FebPawprints 3: ancient cat urinates on ancient manuscript
34. 22 FebA monster storm on Saturn
35. 21 FebOklahoma joins the benighted, tries to pass antiscience bill
36. 21 FebHoop dreams: arthritic otter gets basketball therapy
37. 21 FebDucky orchids and insects
38. 21 FebFamous Catholic exorcist praises Ratzi
39. 20 FebPopeortunity
40. 20 FebMax Tegmark on evolution and “angry atheists,” and a new rebuttal by Victor Stenger
41. 20 FebI’m in Hebrew!
42. 20 FebJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ THEOLOGIANS
43. 20 FebFirst Amendment alert: bill in U.S. Congress gives money to rebuild storm-damaged churches
44. 20 FebPawprints 2: Roman cat ruins brickwork
45. 19 FebToday’s Google doodle: an anniversary
46. 19 FebOn morality and moral responsibility: a final response to Uncle Eric
47. 19 FebPawprints 1: tracks of ancient cats
48. 19 FebFood: Charleston
49. 18 FebA new forcepfly—and a disquisition on insect genitals
50. 18 FebA new movie starring Dawkins and Krauss
51. 18 FebJonah Lehrer tries to rehabilitate himself by giving a $20,000 speech
52. 18 FebGeek humor
53. 17 FebUncle Eric goes all anti-scientistic, argues for “ways of knowing” other than science
54. 17 FebResults: the Teddy Experiment
55. 17 FebAlfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913)
56. 16 FebA visit to Hitch
57. 16 FebCaturday felid: an experiment with my late cat
58. 16 FebBioLogos announces grants to reconcile Christianity and evolution
59. 16 FebWithout a doubt: the world’s cutest frog
60. 15 FebWhere to drink in Toronto
61. 15 FebSophisticated theologian argues that theology uses science to find truths about God
62. 15 FebWoomeisters successfully lobby National Health Service to omit critiques of homeopathy
63. 15 FebMeterorite explodes over Russia
64. 15 FebThe assassin bug: aggressive mimicry of prey
65. 14 FebHabemus Papam! (and a correction from the NYT)
66. 14 FebHappy Valentine’s Day!
67. 14 FebDouglas Murray, atheist, extols religion in The Spectator
68. 14 FebBirds (and mammals) in Georgia
69. 14 FebA colleague argues that my atheism turns people away from evolution
70. 14 FebJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ AIDS ‘n’ teh Pope
71. 14 FebWhat the birds were
72. 13 FebBad owl hunting
73. 13 FebA specious argument for the comity of evolution and faith
74. 13 FebKelly Houle’s Illuminated Origin of Species Project
75. 13 FebGod tells the Pope to stay
76. 13 FebWily Japanese cat knocks on door
77. 12 FebAnother owl trapped in a car
78. 12 FebHappy Darwin’s Birthday and Mardi Gras!
79. 12 FebPeregrinations: Southern fudz
80. 12 FebCats for Darwin and Lincoln Day
81. 11 FebNews Flash: Non habemus papam—Pope Benedict resigns because of infirmity.
82. 11 FebGoing home: talks and a debate on the road
83. 11 FebNominations: The Golden Steves
84. 11 FebMore on placental mammals
85. 10 FebA Rube Goldberg pancake machine
86. 10 FebDo your head in on Sunday: some amazing astronomical numbers
87. 10 FebAtheism grows on campus
88. 9 FebCaturday felid: students help paralyzed cat get around (and bonus photos of the cat with eyebrows)
89. 9 FebWilliam Lane Craig defends his ridiculous claim that animals don’t suffer
90. 9 FebTennessee man quits job when his tax form contains the Number of the Beast
91. 9 FebThe orders of modern placental mammals originated after the extinction of the dinosaurs
92. 8 FebFriday fun – GIFs à gogo
93. 8 FebDarwin Day at the Dinosaur Discovery Museum
94. 8 FebGlobal warming in action: World’s largest observed glacial calving
95. 8 FebSnowball dances on
96. 7 FebLost birds and natural selection
97. 7 FebGood morning!
98. 7 FebHappy 70th birthday this week, genetic code!
99. 7 FebTwo reasons to party on February 12: Darwin’s birthday and Mardi Gras!
100. 6 FebToday’s Google doodle celebrates paleobiology
101. 6 FebDutch zoo animals must abjure meat on Ash Wednesday
102. 6 FebThe cats win, the cats win
103. 5 FebMy first security
104. 5 FebDarwin’s pigeons
105. 5 FebIf only furniture came like this. . .
106. 5 FebStewie, world’s longest cat, dies
107. 4 FebStill moar mimicy
108. 4 FebThe world’s bravest (or stupidest) cat
109. 4 FebRichard III in a Leicester car park
110. 4 FebVictory for Simon’s Cat
111. 3 FebWhy cats like being stroked
112. 3 FebAn officer and a gentleman—and his squirrel (and an interim travel report)
113. 3 FebDarwin Day resolution introduced in U.S. House
114. 3 FebIn three minutes: two stupendous video histories of life on Earth #wonders
115. 2 FebCaturday felid: New weapons in the battle of cat vs. mouse, and bonus business cat
116. 2 FebKrauss on the difference between science and faith
117. 2 FebGod and the Superbowl
118. 2 FebWish me luck. . .
119. 2 FebLeroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner, 1943-2013
120. 1 FebA katydid talks to evolution
121. 1 FebEddie-ism won’t die
122. 1 FebFreethought radio: Professor Ceiling Cat and other guests
123. 1 FebThe Great Southern E/A/BBQ Tour: final information

January 2013

1. 31 JanDeath from above: golden eagle drags mountain goats off cliff
2. 31 JanA new President for BioLogos, but no progress on the Adam and Eve question
3. 31 JanI review E. O. Wilson’s new book in the TLS
4. 31 JanSimon’s cat interviews Henri
5. 30 JanThe snow angel of death
6. 30 JanDon McLeroy leaves creationist comment: evolution can’t explain “biochemical complexity”
7. 30 JanJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ torture
8. 30 JanMindless entertainment: online cat jigsaw puzzle
9. 29 JanNon Sequitur day 3: science versus faith
10. 29 JanAnimal camouflage: spot the beasts
11. 29 JanOn pseudonymity
12. 29 JanMurdoch apologizes for anti-Israel cartoon, artist apologizes for timing
13. 29 JanLOLCAT exhibition: Brits, get your butts there
14. 29 JanA jumpy Paca
15. 29 JanHouse cats as predators
16. 28 JanThe religion of Eddieism spreads
17. 28 JanNow that’s a crab
18. 28 JanJesuit college teaches atheism!
19. 28 JanMoar on coconut crabs
20. 28 JanA cat with eyebrows
21. 28 JanFox News paid Sarah Palin $15 per word
22. 27 JanWake up!
23. 27 JanWhy we can’t clone a Neanderthal—or any ancient organism
24. 27 Jan“The last thing I ever expected to happen in Pittsburgh!”
25. 27 JanThe Times goes antisemitic on Holocaust Memorial Day
26. 27 JanIt’s a miracle! . . . not
27. 26 JanCaturday felid: Moggie defies science to find its way home on epic 200-mile journey; and bonus CAT RESEARCH
28. 26 JanGeorgia gives scholarship money to schools banning gays
29. 26 JanPeregrinations: The Great Southern BBQ, Evolution, and Atheism Tour
30. 26 JanWhere the great whites are
31. 25 JanWake up!
32. 25 JanGod proven in one minute!
33. 25 JanHeartening debate about atheism in the New York Times
34. 25 JanNew roolz
35. 25 JanLast chance to see: The world’s rarest bird?
36. 25 JanI can haz?
37. 25 JanA kitten from nothing
38. 24 JanBlessed are the cheesemakers
39. 24 JanHelp save the Royal Institution
40. 24 JanA Sophisticated Theologian explains why theology doesn’t progress
41. 24 JanDivers save entangled dolphin who seems to ask for help
42. 24 JanTurkish Muslims butthurt about Lego’s Jabba the Hut castle; file suit for defamation
43. 23 JanOur national anthem: sporting event version.
44. 23 JanHow the Seahorse Got its Shape (an evolutionary tall tail)
45. 23 JanJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Adam ‘n’ Eve
46. 23 JanTom Nagel’s antievolution book gets thrice pummeled
47. 23 JanScience fair!
48. 23 JanCatholics argue that fetuses are people—unless it costs the Church money
49. 22 JanWonderful insect photos
50. 22 JanAn increasingly common argument of religionists and faitheists
51. 22 JanSaudi religious police close dinosaur exhibit, locals fight back on Twitter
52. 22 JanSurprised by bear
53. 22 JanCeci n’est pas vraiment un chat
54. 21 JanIt’s a holiday!
55. 21 JanThe Speech
56. 21 JanMoar Kipling: The Cat that Walked by Himself, now with added biology
57. 21 JanA tepid Inauguration
58. 21 JanAyaan Hirsi Ali on Islamic antisemitism
59. 21 JanClose encounter of the vulpine kind
60. 21 JanTrue facts about the seahorse
61. 20 JanMaru’s sense of snow
62. 20 JanNonexistent girlfriend okay, nonexistent deity not so gud, akshually
63. 20 JanTurkey suppresses evolution books
64. 20 JanPascal’s Wager comes around again
65. 20 JanA lovely screensaver
66. 20 JanR.I.P. Stan Musial
67. 20 JanCats on your counter? Try this
68. 19 JanCaturday felid double-header: first snow and dunking
69. 19 JanA Gedankenexperiment on free will
70. 19 JanTwo new books to consider
71. 19 JanCeci n’est pas une fourmi
72. 19 JanQuote of the day: Walter Kaufmann religion versus reason
73. 18 JanA hilarious and informative series on metatherians
74. 18 JanIn the U.S., it’s easier to get a gun than a kitten
75. 18 JanA physicist gets muddled about free will
76. 18 JanNPR show on Robert Ingersoll
77. 18 JanTwo animal vids for Friday: baby fox rescue and hiding spider
78. 17 JanPelicans!
79. 17 JanNPR series on Americans’ loss of faith
80. 17 JanA moth that squeaks
81. 17 JanRick Perry says prayer will solve the problem of gun violence
82. 17 JanQuote of the day: Walter Kaufmann on the gerrymandering of theologians
83. 17 JanBro cats?
84. 16 JanProof of the existence of Ceiling Cat
85. 16 JanCatNews 1: Kittens are sprung!
86. 16 JanWhadizzit?
87. 16 JanLame creationist/evolutionist debate at the BBC
88. 16 JanJared Diamond: religion is rationally irrational
89. 16 JanThese spiders are zombies
90. 16 JanThe answer to “Whaddizit?”
91. 16 JanRaptor!
92. 16 JanEndless flies most beautiful
93. 15 JanBonkers evolutionary psychologist explains why he’s not an atheist
94. 15 JanHow’d they get it out, Alphie? or Television poisons everything
95. 15 JanMohamed Morsi is a vicious anti-Semite
96. 15 JanQuote of the day: Walter Kaufmann defines theology
97. 15 JanThe loudest purr in the world
98. 14 JanKittens at the milk bar
99. 14 JanPaul Davies, chemistry, and the origin of life
100. 14 JanTrue facts about the baby echnidna
101. 14 JanLOLzy publicity: 50 Shades of Evolution and a meme
102. 14 JanQuote of the day: Robert G. Ingersoll #6
103. 14 JanA good day: Uncle Eric sends plaudits
104. 14 JanClarence Thomas speaks in court! (Four words.)
105. 13 JanSpend some time with the spiders of Mars and help science!
106. 13 JanIf biology were like theology
107. 13 JanNinja cat
108. 13 JanRichard Dawkins versus Mehdi Hasan: a confrontation about faith
109. 13 JanQuote of the day: Robert G. Ingersoll #5
110. 12 JanCaturday felid: Moggie caught smuggling contraband into jail
111. 12 JanMore puffery about epigenetics, and my usual role as go-to curmudgeon
112. 12 Jan“Melanie’s Marvelous Measles” pulled from Aussie bookstores
113. 12 JanHow the pebble toad rolls
114. 12 JanQuote of the day: Robert G. Ingersoll #4
115. 11 JanKids’ anti-vax book
116. 11 JanQuote of the day: Robert G. Ingersoll #3
117. 11 JanWhy we don’t see miracles
118. 11 JanWorm emerges from parasitized spider
119. 11 JanMuseum sign of the week
120. 10 JanTwo moar roolz: civility and embedding videos
121. 10 JanIslamic symposium on evolution and creationism
122. 10 JanQuote of the day: Robert G. Ingersoll #2
123. 10 JanElebenty gazillion dolphins
124. 10 JanDescat’s Meditations
125. 9 JanAntievolution music: did Charlie make a monkey out of you?
126. 9 JanThe winner of the alter-your-cat contest!
127. 9 JanAtheists who won’t admit it: 1. David Bryant
128. 9 JanDon’t forget KittenCam
129. 9 JanAtheists who won’t admit it: 2. Kyrsten Sinema
130. 9 JanThis just in: Monopoly creates new tokens you can vote for, including a CAT
131. 9 JanQuote of the Day: Robert Ingersoll on Intelligent Design
132. 8 JanI can haz subskripshun, plz?
133. 8 JanFoxes of Milwaukee, and bonus Vulpes
134. 8 JanPat Condell on Israel and Palestine
135. 8 JanNeil Shubin’s new book out today
136. 8 JanKittenCam!
137. 8 JanThe Argument from Pullet Tectonics
138. 7 JanFoxes of London
139. 7 JanSusan Jacoby: her new book and “strident” editorial
140. 7 JanWhat is this?
141. 7 JanAn illustrated interview with Maurice Sendak
142. 7 JanQuote of the day: Walter Kaufmann #5
143. 6 JanQuote of the day: Walter Kaufmann #4
144. 6 JanMoar fockses
145. 6 JanThe enigmatic ways of God
146. 6 JanThe Greatest Story Never Told
147. 6 JanX-ray of a new stingray
148. 5 JanCaturday felid: Simon, able seacat
149. 5 JanELCA and Ecklund attempt to reconcile science and faith
150. 5 JanReligulous
151. 5 JanFoxes on a trampoline
152. 4 JanNew Year’s resolutions illustrated by cats
153. 4 JanQuote of the day: Walter Kaufmann #3
154. 4 JanNew accommodationist piece at HuffPo sets record for most fail per column inch
155. 4 JanNow a miracle faceplant eagle
156. 4 JanA fox plays fetch
157. 3 JanAntelope pronking
158. 3 JanCat contest: entries
159. 3 JanQuote of the day: Walter Kaufmann # 2
160. 3 JanKeith Kloor continues his crusade for accommodationism
161. 3 JanLife imitates art: a Twitter exchange
162. 2 JanCat yodeling FTW
163. 2 JanR. Joseph Hoffman knows the truth about Jesus!
164. 2 JanIs the future crap? A comparison of toilets in 2001: A Space Odyssey and the 2013 ISS
165. 2 JanAngler fish – TRUE FACTS
166. 2 JanCalling all Lutherans, ex-Lutherans or those who know about Lutherans
167. 2 JanQuote of the day for Wednesday: Kaufmann on theology
168. 2 JanKittens watch figure skating
169. 1 JanYear-end statistics: who watched what and said stuff
170. 1 JanMother lode of flame shells discovered off Scotland
171. 1 JanApparently I don’t understand Jesus
172. 1 JanWorld’s luckiest owl survives high-speed faceplant