2014

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December 2014

1. 31 DecWednesday: Hili dialogue
2. 31 DecJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Anselm
3. 31 DecTai Tomar Anando Amar Por
4. 31 DecMisogynist Jews on a plane
5. 31 DecIndia: Off to Khajuraho
6. 31 DecA New Year riddle
7. 31 DecJerry Coyne the Cat has become one
8. 30 DecTuesday: Hili dialogue
9. 30 DecA birthday owl for Jerry
10. 30 DecIndian signs
11. 30 DecSpot the palm squirrel!
12. 30 DecOlive python ingests juvenile wallaby
13. 30 DecA birthday song (and photo)
14. 29 DecMonday: Hili dialogue
15. 29 DecReaders’ wildlife photographs
16. 29 DecWhat do those car dashboard alarm icons mean?
17. 29 DecDelhi: lunch and animals
18. 29 DecBiology of the Reptilia— online
19. 29 DecSeventh-Day Adventist pastor abandons belief in God, embraces reality
20. 29 DecFamished kittens
21. 28 DecSunday: Hili dialogue
22. 28 DecA visit to the Denver Cat Company
23. 28 DecScotland refuses to ban teaching of creationism
24. 28 DecSpot the deer
25. 28 DecAnti-Western German journalist embeds himself with ISIS, discovers that it really is about religion
26. 28 DecRIP Joe Cocker
27. 28 DecSecularism on the rise in the USA
28. 27 DecI’m baaack!
29. 27 DecSaturday: Hili dialogue
30. 27 DecCaturday felids
31. 27 DecHow to photograph your cat
32. 27 DecMove over, “God is Not Dead”: here comes “Do You Believe?”
33. 26 DecFriday: Hili dialogue
34. 26 DecIt’s easy, anyone can do it
35. 26 DecUpdate on the Irish woman-as-incubator case
36. 26 DecKangaroo v. Drone
37. 26 DecOn being provocative
38. 25 DecThursday: Hili dialogue
39. 25 DecChristmas cats
40. 25 DecChristmas on Saturn
41. 25 DecOpen thread: the Strange Tales edition
42. 25 DecPeyton’s Christmas
43. 25 DecAlexander Gerst’s Earth timelapses
44. 24 DecWednesday: Hili dialogue
45. 24 DecThe Nativity: when theology strikes
46. 24 DecWhat are you reading?
47. 24 DecThe night before the morning after
48. 23 DecTuesday: Hili dialogue
49. 23 DecAn Irish Christmas Tale
50. 23 DecOpen thread: Festivus edition
51. 23 DecKrak-oo, hok-oo and boom
52. 23 DecYour daily dose of adorable
53. 22 DecMonday: Hili dialogue
54. 22 DecEurope: not quite the secular paradise you’d think
55. 22 DecBad reasons for believing
56. 22 DecSomething Christmassy
57. 22 DecGoogle car
58. 21 DecSunday: Hili dialogue
59. 21 DecWhat science achieved in 2014
60. 21 DecWill religion ever disappear?
61. 21 DecCat Fancy to cease publication
62. 21 DecWho’s the boss?
63. 20 DecSaturday: Hili Dialogue
64. 20 DecCaturday felids: Atheist cat gets Edinburgh University library card, Maru gets into too small box, stray tabby noms $1000 worth of fish in Russian airport deli
65. 20 DecThe Atheist Ten Commandments
66. 20 DecWoo, quackery and pseudoscience, oh my…
67. 20 DecLagniappe
68. 20 DecDare pondus idonea fumo
69. 20 DecThe end of the rhino
70. 19 DecFriday: Hili dialogue
71. 19 DecHow to build a human
72. 19 DecWhat not to say to an atheist
73. 19 DecOpen thread: The Resurrection
74. 19 DecAll roads lead to WEIT
75. 18 DecThursday: Hili dialogue
76. 18 DecThree ferret gifs
77. 18 DecSam Harris and The Very Bad Wizards
78. 18 DecThe ghoulish and inhumane side effect of legislating for the “pro-life” position
79. 18 DecFinding Gode
80. 18 DecCaption contest
81. 17 DecSans commentaire
82. 17 DecWednesday: Hili dialogue
83. 17 DecThe contest for ownership of Shahada
84. 17 DecMcMullen case resolved: a big victory for secularism as proselytizing professor told to keep opinions on Christianity and creationism to himself
85. 17 DecCat cafes are popping up all over
86. 16 DecTuesday: Hili dialogue
87. 16 DecDelhi: a few holiday snaps
88. 16 DecPoems from a boy who didn’t grow up
89. 15 DecMonday: Hili dialogue
90. 15 DecFirst noms in India
91. 15 DecShould I join Patheos?
92. 15 DecIndia: Day 1, Noms #2
93. 15 DecReader’s beef of the week
94. 14 DecSunday: Hili dialogue
95. 14 DecReaders’ wildlife photographs
96. 14 DecOpen thread
97. 14 DecGrape plasma
98. 14 DecI have landed
99. 14 DecCome on down!
100. 13 DecSaturday: Hili dialogue
101. 13 DecReaders’ wildlife photos
102. 13 DecCaturday felid trifecta: Cat on piano, cat running in wheel, and Ceiling Cat decal
103. 13 DecThe Pope’s views on animals and heaven go viral
104. 13 DecHorse yoga!
105. 12 DecFriday: Hili dialogue
106. 12 DecReaders’ wildlife photograph
107. 12 DecPope Francis puts his foot in it again, this time with retrograde views on women
108. 12 DecReader’s wildlife photos, bonus edition: Spot the deadly viper
109. 12 DecIs religion good or bad for humanity?
110. 12 DecOwlFest!
111. 12 DecHead control in the saw-whet owl
112. 11 DecThursday: Hili dialogue
113. 11 DecReaders’ wildlife photos
114. 11 DecGoogle celebrates Annie Jump Cannon
115. 11 DecKentucky comes to its senses, nixes tax incentives for Ark Park
116. 11 Dec“The dark side of free will”
117. 11 DecThe tuatara’s third eye
118. 11 DecCeci n’est pas une spirale
119. 10 DecWednesday: Hili dialogue
120. 10 DecJesus ‘n’ Mo and cultural relativism
121. 10 DecReaders’ wildlife photos
122. 10 DecA stunning (possible) case of mimicry: bird nestling resembles a toxic caterpillar in appearance and behavior
123. 10 DecThe Oatmeal’s sacrilege steams up believers
124. 10 DecHow extremely stupid not to have thought of that!
125. 10 DecFilmmakers seek feedback on video version of WEIT
126. 10 DecJust to be contrarian. . .
127. 9 DecTuesday: Hili dialogue
128. 9 DecReaders’ wildlife photos
129. 9 DecThe Dog Delusion: Pope Francis proclaims that all animals will go to heaven
130. 9 DecThe Senate’s “torture report”
131. 9 DecThe Pope was right!
132. 9 DecAfter paying $4.8 million for Jim Watson’s Nobel Prize medal, buyer gives it back to him
133. 9 DecJehovah’s Witnesses forced by British judge to allow their child a transfusion
134. 8 DecMonday: Hili dialogue
135. 8 DecChicago: sunset
136. 8 DecMore atheist cartoons
137. 8 DecReaders’ wildlife photographs
138. 8 DecAn antisemite identified?
139. 8 DecL.A. Times strongly endorses secularism
140. 8 DecThe most racially insensitive quiz question ever
141. 8 DecSeven states still officially ban atheists from holding public office
142. 8 DecMass rescue of baby fruit bats
143. 8 DecBound for perdition
144. 7 DecSunday: Hili dialogue
145. 7 DecReaders’ wildlife photos
146. 7 DecGood morning, you big-nosed Jewboy
147. 7 DecIn the leaf litter
148. 7 DecTempleton has another Big Ideas piece in Slate: What’s the future of religion?
149. 7 DecMy TLS review of Darwin’s Cathedral
150. 6 DecSaturday: Hili dialogue
151. 6 DecReaders’ wildlife photos
152. 6 DecCaturday felid trifecta: Simon’s cat gets baked, Bulgaria’s mysterious green cat, and catmallows
153. 6 DecGreat horned owl goes swimming in Lake Michigan
154. 6 DecReaders’ beefs of the week
155. 6 DecBill Donohue: Atheists and agnostics die younger, are unhappier, and are more likely to enter a mental institution
156. 6 DecWhat would happen if…
157. 5 DecFriday: Hili dialogue
158. 5 DecOrion launches at 7:05 a.m. EST (that’s today)
159. 5 DecSuccess!
160. 5 DecReaders’ wildlife photos
161. 5 DecRemains of Richard III identified: oldest forensic ID yet
162. 5 DecOrion lands safely
163. 5 DecThe Final Solution is back: Christian pastor promotes execution of homosexuals
164. 5 DecLuke Savage’s vicious (and misleading) atheist bashing
165. 5 DecAnimals see snow for the first time
166. 5 DecLamprey schreckstoff
167. 4 DecThursday: Hili dialogue
168. 4 DecOrion launches in 42 minutes! (Delay: you can still watch)
169. 4 Dec“I Want You Back”
170. 4 DecThey’re gonna launch the sucker TOMORROW
171. 4 DecReaders’ wildlife photos
172. 4 DecShermer has a woo experience, admits there may be something to it
173. 4 DecThe world’s oldest graffiti: by Homo erectus! (maybe)
174. 4 Dec“I’m no scientist”: Colbert on Republican climate-change denialism
175. 3 DecWednesday: Hili dialogue
176. 3 DecReaders’ wildlife photographs
177. 3 DecMy review of E. O. Wilson’s “The Social Conquest of Earth”
178. 3 DecJesus ‘n’ Mo and the omnibenevolent God
179. 3 DecChristian hatred of atheists: Salon almost, but not quite, manages to diss religion
180. 3 DecThe American Medical Association’s misguided position on euthanasia
181. 3 DecDon’t ever work with tapir
182. 2 DecTuesday: Hili dialogue
183. 2 DecReaders’ wildlife photos
184. 2 DecMore levity from Deepak
185. 2 Dec“No root canal for you,” and a note on pain
186. 2 DecCan we cure creationism by teaching the facts?
187. 2 DecThe Denver Cat Company opens soon, and some celebratory persiflage
188. 2 DecMy squirrels are fat
189. 1 DecMonday: Hili dialogue
190. 1 DecI saw a bunny!
191. 1 DecReaders’ wildlife photos
192. 1 DecBig surprise: You can’t get Americans to accept evolution by giving them the facts
193. 1 DecA note to my readers from Pharyngula
194. 1 DecIg Nobel Prizes awarded
195. 1 DecFictional fishercat!
196. 1 DecEx-pitcher Curt Schilling blames criticism of his creationism on “atheists, liberals, and Democrats”
197. 1 DecIt is finished

November 2014

1. 30 NovSunday: Hili dialogue
2. 30 NovReaders’ wildlife photos
3. 30 NovAdvance Australia Fair: the Aussies are losing their religion
4. 30 NovBut organisms still evolved!
5. 30 NovE. O. Wilson: Only science (and not philosophy or religion) can tell us the meaning of human existence
6. 30 NovDilbert: On the origin of tetrapods
7. 30 NovWhat izzit?
8. 30 NovFishercat!
9. 29 NovSaturday: Hili dialogue
10. 29 NovCaturday felids: Moggie Thanksgiving (with token d*g)
11. 29 NovReaders’ wildlife photos
12. 29 NovPope Francis endorses the fake Shroud of Turin
13. 29 Nov“Yours in distress”: a letter from Alan Turing
14. 29 NovIslamophobia in three panels
15. 29 NovThe Second Coming of Ceiling Cat!
16. 29 NovExploring the Solar System – a short film
17. 28 NovFriday: Hili dialogue
18. 28 NovReaders’ wildlife photos
19. 28 NovUpdate on the Georgia Southern creationism case: McMullen denies preaching Christianity or creationism
20. 28 NovKittehs and turkey
21. 28 NovCreationist homeschooling mom goes after evolution in Chicago
22. 28 NovWays of knowing
23. 28 Nov“Jurassic World” trailer released, seven months in advance
24. 27 NovThursday: Hili dialogue
25. 27 NovReaders’ wildlife photos: Happy Thanksgiving!
26. 27 NovBest Friends says “Happy Thanksgiving”
27. 27 NovA reader describes the “high” of glossolalia and his journey to nonbelief
28. 27 NovAnimals and leftovers
29. 27 NovThe lyrebird: nature’s finest sound mimic
30. 27 NovYou can lead a horse to water… but then what happens?
31. 27 NovOpen thread
32. 26 NovWednesday: Hili dialogue
33. 26 NovReaders’ wildlife photographs
34. 26 NovJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ glossolalia
35. 26 NovEvolutionary psychology, sexual dimorphism, and ideology
36. 26 NovJ. D. Watson to sell his Nobel Prize medal
37. 26 NovMy “Road to Reason” interview
38. 26 NovPlaying with seal pups
39. 26 NovPre-holiday felids: bully cats and rocket cats
40. 25 NovTuesday: Hili dialogue
41. 25 NovReaders’ wildlife photographs
42. 25 NovMichael Nugent kicks butt on miracles
43. 25 NovReza Aslan promotes himself, demonizes atheists, and exaggerates his credentials
44. 25 NovGalleys!
45. 25 NovHave a Scientology Christmas!
46. 25 NovCat eats a lollipop
47. 24 NovMonday: Hili dialogue
48. 24 NovThe two best soul songs ever
49. 24 NovReaders’ wildlife photos
50. 24 NovThe National Academy honors Ernst Mayr
51. 24 NovDoes evolution need a revolution?
52. 24 NovOur god vs. theirs
53. 24 NovArt imitates life: Babylon 5 and Karen Armstrong
54. 24 NovThe conehead mantis
55. 23 NovSunday: Hili dialogue
56. 23 NovThe most soulful soul songs
57. 23 NovReaders’ wildlife photos
58. 23 NovReader’s beef of the week
59. 23 NovProfessor Ceiling Cat on video this afternoon
60. 23 NovReza Aslan and Karen Armstrong are everywhere, and it’s not pretty
61. 22 NovSaturday: Hili dialogue
62. 22 NovReaders’ wildlife photographs
63. 22 NovCaturday felids: a rare male tortoiseshell cat, a paper-obsessed cat, and cats giving high fives,
64. 22 NovAnother messed-up sign
65. 22 NovBaseball writer suspended from Twitter by ESPN after defending evolution against famous pitcher
66. 22 NovAbbas’s condemnation of rabbi slaughter turns out to be a political ploy
67. 21 NovFriday: Hili dialogue
68. 21 NovReaders’ wildlife photographs
69. 21 NovImmigration reform at last!
70. 21 NovThe Republican punishment of Obama begins
71. 21 NovJohn Loftus’s recent book on the Outsider Test for Faith
72. 21 NovA distinction without a difference: Montgomery County schools keep Jewish and Christian holidays, but remove their names
73. 21 NovGiant panda plays in the snow
74. 20 NovThursday: Hili dialogue
75. 20 NovA milestone
76. 20 NovReaders’ wildlife photographs
77. 20 NovHermit crab housing swap
78. 20 NovAnother unconvincing redefinition of free will
79. 20 NovThe answer to a burning question
80. 20 NovDoesn’t anyone care?
81. 20 NovPercy and Orlando meet the catnappers
82. 19 NovWednesday: Hili dialogue
83. 19 NovReaders’ wildlife photographs
84. 19 NovJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Jerusalem
85. 19 NovAnother amazingly industrious spider
86. 19 NovPhilae finds organic molecules on comet: what’s the big deal?
87. 19 NovBBC shows winners of photography contest for osculating faith
88. 19 NovThe best license plate ever
89. 19 NovKerri Miller’s journalistic double standard
90. 19 NovIn his spare time, a Russian miner takes stunning pictures of foxes
91. 19 NovRIP Jimmy Ruffin
92. 18 NovTuesday: Hili dialogue
93. 18 NovCalvinian teleological evolution
94. 18 NovThe RNA world
95. 18 NovReaders’ wildlife photographs
96. 18 NovThe ecology of faith: what makes societies religious?
97. 18 NovThe incoherence of Karen Armstrong
98. 18 NovBirds put into the drunk tank to sober up
99. 18 NovThis is why I teach
100. 17 NovMonday: Hili dialogue
101. 17 NovJoni at the BBC
102. 17 NovReaders’ wildlife (and astronomy) photographs
103. 17 NovProprietor’s beef of the week
104. 17 NovWhere did life come from: God or naturalism? The data from the U.S. vs. the U.K.
105. 17 NovBill Nye challenged to debate GMOs
106. 17 NovSquirrel purloins, then returns, GoPro camera
107. 16 NovSunday: Hili dialogue
108. 16 NovReaders’ wildlife photos
109. 16 NovThe evolutionary psychology of politics
110. 16 NovThe cat genome: what does it say about domesticated moggies?
111. 16 NovReaders’ beefs of the week
112. 16 NovThe problem with faith schools
113. 16 NovLife imitates science
114. 15 NovSaturday: Hili dialogue
115. 15 NovCaturday felid quadrifecta: Cat sticks out tongue at sound of packing tape, Leon monologues, and Honey Bee, the blind hiking cat, and kitten-induced stress relief
116. 15 NovOnly a theory?
117. 15 NovFaith-based healing kills kids: this time U.S. gets it right and Canadians screw up
118. 15 NovReaders’ wildlife photographs
119. 15 NovPhilae isn’t dead:, just sleeping (?)
120. 15 NovWinter animal care
121. 14 NovFriday: Hili dialogue
122. 14 NovThe speed of prayer
123. 14 NovReaders’ wildlife photos
124. 14 NovThe Times calls it like it is on Islam: there’s no “true” version
125. 14 NovGeorgia Southern University launches investigation of creationist professor
126. 14 NovTempleton and the AAAS give money for seminaries to teach science and for scientists to become literate in theology
127. 14 NovThe New Yorker tries its hand at accommodationism
128. 14 NovA flight in a small plane
129. 14 NovAnimal news of the week
130. 13 NovThursday: Hili dialogue
131. 13 NovReaders’ wildlife photos
132. 13 NovMore cowardice about Islam in a UK university
133. 13 NovMormons finally admit Joseph Smith’s polygamy (and release bonus video on Sacred Underwear)
134. 13 NovUK survey: the Bible noses out Darwin as the book most valuable to humanity, but not by much
135. 13 NovThe Advice Goddess schools college students in manners
136. 13 NovKitteh as Philae
137. 12 NovWednesday: Hili dialogue
138. 12 NovWe land on a comet today! (10:47 EST)
139. 12 NovReaders’ childhood plushies
140. 12 NovStunning mimicry of an ant by a caterpillar
141. 12 NovPhilae has landed!
142. 12 NovThe horror, ctd.
143. 12 NovDefeating a squirrel
144. 12 NovCold weather tip
145. 11 NovTuesday: Hili Dialogue
146. 11 NovThe evidence for evolution
147. 11 NovReaders’ wildlife photos
148. 11 Nov“Ohly-ohly-ohly” said the nude cat
149. 11 NovNew Statesman suggests that maybe ISIS fighters really are motivated by faith
150. 11 NovCould it be . . . Satan?
151. 11 NovMr Deity lays into Mormon apologetics
152. 11 NovMore free will funnies
153. 11 NovGus wants in!
154. 11 NovAnother assault on free speech
155. 10 NovMonday: Hili dialogue
156. 10 NovWhat I feel like this morning
157. 10 NovReaders’ wildlife photos
158. 10 NovWhy is free speech waning?
159. 10 NovIntersectional faith
160. 10 NovMore of the “it’s not religion; it’s anything else” nonsense from the UK
161. 10 NovFinally, a reason to have “belief in belief”
162. 10 NovMoses and his fifteen commandments
163. 9 NovSunday: Hili dialogue
164. 9 NovMoar bears
165. 9 NovGoogle Doodle celebrates fall of the Berlin Wall
166. 9 NovChristian couple, parents of four, burned alive for accusations that they torched a Qur’an
167. 9 NovFundamentalist pastor from Georgia visits Scandinavia, is horrified by their nonbelief
168. 9 NovPies! 2014 edition
169. 8 NovSaturday: Hili dialogue
170. 8 NovReaders’ wildlife photos
171. 8 NovWeekly readers’ beefs
172. 8 NovCaturday felid trifecta: The Cat Came Back, Cat pareidolia, and Fat Freddy’s cat
173. 8 NovThe Science Guy goes after GMOs
174. 8 NovThe New York Times profiles James Randi
175. 8 NovPinkah bear!
176. 8 NovThe Oatmeal tackles the Great Anti-Atheist Canard
177. 7 NovFriday, Hili dialogue
178. 7 NovReaders’ childhood plushies
179. 7 NovThe group-selection dustup continues: E. O. Wilson calls Richard Dawkins a “journalist”
180. 7 NovColbert on Republican climate-change denialism: “We’re not scientists”
181. 7 NovBill Nye talks about creationism, evolution, and his new book
182. 7 NovA double rainbow in Oz
183. 7 NovSquirrel plays with cat
184. 6 NovThursday: Hili dialogue
185. 6 NovBring out your Teds!
186. 6 NovOMG: Sabrina’s following me!
187. 6 NovReaders’ wildlife photos
188. 6 NovTempleton “dialogue” about free will (hint: they’re for it)
189. 6 NovGod of the gaps
190. 6 NovAndrew Brown: If you hate the belief, you hate the believer
191. 6 NovThe top ten essays since 1950
192. 6 NovRead The Rules
193. 5 NovWednesday: Hili dialogue
194. 5 NovThe elections: We’re screwed
195. 5 NovReaders’ wildlife photos
196. 5 NovThe Vatican calls Brittany Maynard’s decision to end her life “reprehensible”
197. 5 NovU.S. federal court declares secular humanism a religion
198. 5 Nov“True facts” about Jesus
199. 5 NovRiver boarder rescues squirrel trapped in a river
200. 4 NovTuesday: Hili dialogue
201. 4 NovRequiem for a cat
202. 4 NovReaders’ wildlife photos
203. 4 NovCreationist Fail: Michigan State scientists and philosophers refuse to engage creationists at a student-sponsored conference
204. 4 NovA question for compatibilists
205. 4 NovEven male moths do it…
206. 4 NovMore creationist shenanigans at Georgia Southern University
207. 4 NovMy interview for Skeptical Briefs
208. 4 NovTexas Tech students parade their knowledge
209. 3 NovMonday: Hili dialogue
210. 3 NovReaders’ wildlife photos
211. 3 NovBucky Catt, “free won’t,” free will, Dan Dennett, and Templeton
212. 3 NovIslamic extremists: religion or culture?
213. 3 NovYoung American with terminal brain cancer ends her own life
214. 3 NovTeddy Bears’ Picnic
215. 3 NovAnd you thought it was difficult giving medicine to a cat!
216. 2 NovSunday: Hili dialogue
217. 2 NovReaders’ wildlife photographs
218. 2 NovGoogle Doodle: Day of the Dead
219. 2 NovBanning the burqa and niqab: Islamists pressure human rights organizations
220. 2 NovNPR says that science has a faith problem
221. 2 NovShould WEIT be a “videobook”?
222. 2 NovGrumpy Cat sells out big time
223. 1 NovSaturday: Hili dialogue
224. 1 NovCaturday felids: Magic-carpet cat and the 100 most important cat pictures of all time!
225. 1 NovReaders’ wildlife photos
226. 1 NovBill Maher responds to the Berkeley fracas: “Who ever told you you only had to hear what doesn’t upset you?”
227. 1 NovKirpanGate: Hemant says that Sikh students can bring daggers to school; his co-blogger doesn’t
228. 1 NovRachel Maddow discusses censored pages on contraception in Arizona textbook
229. 1 NovTonia Lombrozo at NPR: Factual and religious “beliefs” may differ

October 2014

1. 31 OctFriday: Hili dialogue
2. 31 OctHappy Halloween!
3. 31 OctReaders’ wildlife photographs
4. 31 OctTanya Luhrmann and the decline of the New York Times
5. 31 OctIf Sophisticated Theologians controlled religion
6. 31 OctArizona school removes pages on birth control from textbook, but “it’s not censorship”
7. 31 OctGeorgia Southern University responds to FFRF/Dawkins complaint
8. 31 OctHallowe’en larval lepidopteran
9. 30 OctThursday: Hili dialogue
10. 30 OctThe good news and the bad news
11. 30 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
12. 30 OctScience proves that consecrated wafers are still wheat and not Jesus
13. 30 OctBill Maher stays as Berkeley’s commencement speaker
14. 30 OctReaders’ beefs of the day
15. 30 OctSpot the snow leopards!
16. 30 OctPeyton’s National Cat Day
17. 29 OctWednesday: Hili dialogue
18. 29 OctJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Halloween
19. 29 OctReaders’ wildlife photographs
20. 29 OctPope Francis gives evolution the thumbs up, but still avows creationism
21. 29 OctIt’s National Cat Day!
22. 29 OctMuslims condemn ISIS
23. 29 OctThe FFRF, Dawkins, and I criticize a Georgia professor who teaches creationism in a public university
24. 29 OctMy New Republic piece on the Pope and evolution
25. 29 OctBobcat in the henhouse! (and lagniappe)
26. 29 OctPiece of Amelia Earhart’s plane found (probably)
27. 28 OctTuesday: Hili dialogue
28. 28 OctParadise enow
29. 28 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
30. 28 OctJonas Salk’s 100th birthday and the conquest of polio
31. 28 OctReza Aslan denies that religious belief produces violence, misrepresents Sam Harris again
32. 28 OctStarlings take a bath, in slo-mo
33. 28 OctGerman fans help an ailing football club
34. 28 OctGoodbye, Allman Brothers
35. 27 OctMonday: Hili Dialogue
36. 27 OctChicago: Sunrise
37. 27 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
38. 27 OctSofia: The Last Supper
39. 27 OctOh Lord—now Berkeley students want to ban a commencement address by Bill Maher
40. 27 Oct“Tapestry” comes to life
41. 27 OctIt’s Dylan Thomas’s 100th birthday
42. 26 OctEarly Hallowe’en post: Teddy the Porcupine noms pumpkin, again
43. 26 OctListen to the nightjar
44. 26 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
45. 26 OctSam Harris talks with Cenk Uygur
46. 26 OctAn open letter to Ben Affleck from a Pakistani woman
47. 26 OctCeiling Cat bless the Kiwis!
48. 25 OctDinner last night
49. 25 OctCaturday felid: Bulgarian street moggies
50. 25 OctSikh student allowed to bring dagger to public school as a gesture toward religious tolerance
51. 25 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
52. 25 Oct“Nones” rise again in the U.S.
53. 25 OctSunday: Hili dialogue
54. 24 OctFriday: Hili dialogue
55. 24 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
56. 24 OctThree amazing photos by Melvyn Yeo
57. 24 OctA creationist claims that Denmark is in moral chaos because it lacks “wholesome religion” to stave off “toxic religion” (aka Islam)
58. 24 OctTarnovo: sights, noms, cats, and other splendors
59. 24 OctYoung people today… Help them appreciate the Marx Brothers
60. 24 OctSaturday: Hili dialogue
61. 23 OctFrom the Cambrian Explosion to swimming pigs – Professor Brian Cox
62. 23 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
63. 23 OctBeyond belief: The Werleman mess is worse than you can imagine
64. 23 OctYes, Neanderthals are us!
65. 23 OctFelid photo takes top prize at Natural History Museum’s wildlife photography contest
66. 23 OctOMG OMG OMG OMG!
67. 22 OctWednesday: Hili dialogue
68. 22 OctJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ creationism
69. 22 OctReaders’ wildlife photos: pikas
70. 22 OctThe Ratio meeting
71. 22 OctReaders’ beefs
72. 22 OctBulgaria: food, cats, and other delights
73. 22 OctThursday: Hili dialogue
74. 21 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
75. 21 OctGuest post: How to make a mess of modernity
76. 21 OctFrancis Spufford, former atheist, defends his faith in a new book
77. 21 OctOktoberfest!
78. 21 OctCat eats watermelon
79. 20 OctReza Aslan and Chris Stedman: Atheists and Muslims have lots in common and should be pals
80. 20 OctMonastery of the Transfiguration of God
81. 20 OctSofia
82. 20 OctCat Watch 2014
83. 20 OctTuesday: Hili dialogue
84. 19 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
85. 19 OctA tame hummingbird
86. 19 OctThe Big Nom in Sofia
87. 19 OctAn experiment: an open thread
88. 19 OctProof of Flying Spaghetti Monster
89. 19 OctMonday: Hili dialogue
90. 19 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
91. 18 OctSeven more cases of apparent plagiarism by C. J. Werleman
92. 18 OctNoms in Bulgaria: Thursday dinner and Friday lunch
93. 18 OctGuest post: The relationship between Islam and female genital mutilation
94. 18 OctSunday: Hili dialogue
95. 17 OctFriday: Hili dialogue
96. 17 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
97. 17 OctC. J. Werleman accused of plagiarism
98. 17 OctHeather Hastie continues her critique of Reza Aslan
99. 17 OctFootball sucks
100. 17 OctBaby rhino tries to impress mom with its courage
101. 17 OctIs there any hope for this kid?
102. 17 OctSnagglepuss the cat and Bubbles the baby rabbit
103. 17 OctSaturday: Hili dialogue
104. 17 OctCaturday felids trifecta: The cats of Sofia; Swiss try to pass one-cat-per-house rule; Cat fights washing machine
105. 16 OctThursday: Hili Dialogue
106. 16 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
107. 16 OctFantastic slo-mo video of butterfly courtship
108. 16 OctI have landed
109. 15 OctWednesday: Hili dialogue
110. 15 OctJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ another way of knowing
111. 15 OctThe evidence for evolution: a short video and a slightly longer take
112. 15 OctIs atheism irrational? A philosopher says “yes”
113. 15 OctReaders’ wildlife photographs
114. 15 OctThe ultimate cowardice: British student union refuses to condemn ISIS
115. 15 OctGus
116. 14 OctTuesday: Hili dialogue
117. 14 OctNote to readers: peregrinations
118. 14 OctSpecial cat-related news, Tuesday edition
119. 14 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
120. 14 OctThe first secular invocation at a public meeting in Alabama
121. 14 OctAccommodationism at the American Museum of Natural History
122. 14 OctA stunning blue bug from New Guinea
123. 14 OctExorcisms on Skype?
124. 13 OctMonday: Hili Dialogue
125. 13 OctSnowball, his friends, et moi
126. 13 OctHeather Hastie on female genital mutilation: Is it Islamic?
127. 13 OctA new view of hell: “Conditional immortality”
128. 13 OctA “light” lunch with Josh Ozersky
129. 12 OctSunday: Hili Dialogue
130. 12 OctSalman Rushdie condemns “jihadi cool”
131. 12 OctThe New Yorker event: Cats lost. . . 🙁
132. 12 OctWhat I missed in New York
133. 11 OctSaturday: Hili Dialogue and moar
134. 11 OctReaders’ wildlife photographs
135. 11 OctCaturday felids (and moar)
136. 11 OctReaders defend Islam
137. 11 OctA spokesman for the “religion of peace” responds to Malala’s Nobel Prize
138. 11 OctNYC: lunch
139. 11 OctHawks vs drones
140. 10 OctFriday: Hili dialogue
141. 10 OctReaders’ wildlife photographs
142. 10 OctSunset, Chicago
143. 10 OctNobel Peace Prize goes to two, one the youngest winner ever
144. 10 OctMy New Republic piece on Dawkins vs. Gray
145. 10 OctNYC: Noms and stuff
146. 10 OctSam Harris responds to the Islam fracas
147. 10 OctA mantis on a cauliflower and an albino raccoon
148. 10 OctAll good Christians got guns
149. 9 OctThursday: Hili dialogue
150. 9 OctGood morning!
151. 9 Oct2014 Nobel Prize for Literature
152. 9 OctReaders’ wildlife photographs
153. 9 OctAccomodationFest: New York Times readers respond to David Barash
154. 9 OctEggs, all the way down
155. 9 OctI have landed
156. 9 OctUpdate on the Lebanon, Missouri case
157. 9 OctZeFrank on the superiority of cats vs. d*gs
158. 8 OctWednesday: Hili dialogue
159. 8 OctGus in the night
160. 8 OctNobel Prize in Chemistry shared by three
161. 8 OctReaders’ wildlife photographs
162. 8 OctJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Literalism ‘n’ “moderate” Muslims
163. 8 OctPeregrinations, and note to readers
164. 8 OctIslam vs liberalism
165. 8 Oct“I felt something”: Manly men hold kittens for the first time
166. 7 OctTuesday: Hili dialogue
167. 7 OctNobel Prize for Physics goes to three who invented a light-emitting diode
168. 7 OctGood morning!
169. 7 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
170. 7 OctAngier on giraffes
171. 7 OctFree ticket to the cats vs. dogs debate in NYC this Saturday
172. 7 OctBoudry’s Ten Commandments for faitheism
173. 7 OctGeorge Will is an atheist??
174. 7 OctKangaroo dustup!
175. 6 OctMonday: Hili dialogue
176. 6 OctGood morning!
177. 6 OctFirst Nobel Prize of the year goes to three neuroscientists
178. 6 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
179. 6 OctThe handy-dandy Aslan/Affleck refuter
180. 6 OctReader’s book
181. 6 OctTwo industrious spiders, one with math skills
182. 6 OctVatican waffles on enforcing children’s rights outside of Vatican City
183. 6 OctThe only science “bot” (and cat) on the list
184. 6 OctFirst case of Ebola contracted outside Africa
185. 5 OctSunday: Hili dialogue
186. 5 OctThe morning error
187. 5 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
188. 5 OctJohn Gray’s scurrilous attack on Richard Dawkins
189. 5 OctSpot the caterpillar
190. 5 OctMore “grocer’s apostrophes”
191. 5 OctJesus-fellated teen receives probation, community service, and ban from social media for six months
192. 5 OctThe divine Sarah on SNL
193. 5 OctHere’s the caterpillar!
194. 5 OctHow cats have trained us to pet them
195. 4 OctSaturday: Hili dialogue
196. 4 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
197. 4 OctCaturday felid trifecta: Cat steps, boxing cat, and chest-hair cat
198. 4 OctIs religion irrational?
199. 4 OctMaher, Harris, Kristof, Steele, and Affleck squabble about Islam
200. 4 OctJoe Felsenstein analyzes a talk by William Dembski
201. 3 OctFriday: Hili dialogue
202. 3 OctReaders’ wildlife photographs
203. 3 OctOnce again: Was there a historical Jesus?
204. 3 OctIf only all cats were like Bobo. . .
205. 3 OctThe Pope believes in angels!
206. 3 OctThe history of the English language, in one chart and a ten-minute video
207. 3 OctBedtime reading for Gus the Cat: WEIT
208. 3 OctHopelessly tangled fox rescued from soccer net
209. 2 OctThursday: Hili dialogue
210. 2 OctGood morning!
211. 2 OctReaders’ wildlife photographs
212. 2 OctNon Sequitur on creationism and offended religionists
213. 2 OctColbert on Jindal: A black mark on Brown University
214. 2 OctNYT readers agree that doubt is an essential part of faith
215. 2 OctWhy are dog breeds so variable compared to cat breeds?
216. 1 OctTuesday: Hili dialogue
217. 1 OctWillie the Cat changes the bogroll from over to under
218. 1 OctReaders’ wildlife photos
219. 1 OctJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ metaphorical lattes
220. 1 OctGuest post: Reza Aslan goes after Bill Maher
221. 1 OctThe Albatross revealed!
222. 1 OctIranian psychotherapist hanged for “heresy”
223. 1 Oct1961: Russian doctor in Antarctica removes his own appendix
224. 1 OctGoys try Jewish food for the first time, are not impressed

September 2014

1. 30 SepTuesday: Hili dialogue
2. 30 SepDiana MacPherson
3. 30 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
4. 30 SepFrancis Crick hosts a groovy party
5. 30 SepMaking a virtue of necessity: doubt as “a crucial part of faith”
6. 30 Sep“Peanuts was a lot deeper than people thought”
7. 30 SepFlam on Bayes’s Theorem
8. 30 SepReal Islamophobia: Muslim football player penalized for thanking Allah on the field
9. 30 SepThree cat gifs
10. 30 SepUh oh. . .
11. 29 SepMonday: Hili dialogue
12. 29 SepIt’s National Coffee Day!
13. 29 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
14. 29 SepRabbi Sacks goes after atheists and Dawkins with the usual religious inanities
15. 29 SepA bad pun
16. 29 SepKaren Armstrong osculates religion on the BBC
17. 29 SepProof that Intelligent Design is about religion
18. 29 SepLion fence
19. 29 SepRIP Flippy
20. 28 SepSunday: Hili dialogue
21. 28 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
22. 28 SepGuest post: Why the genetic code is not universal
23. 28 SepMy take on NOMA: an old book review
24. 28 SepTwo videos on Islam: Bill Maher and Hitchens
25. 28 SepDavid Barash on the incompatibility of science and faith
26. 28 SepLion cub vs. GoPro
27. 27 SepSaturday: Hili dialogue
28. 27 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
29. 27 SepCaturday felid trifecta: Cat-food ad with complicated machine, parkouring cat, and the Friskies awards for best cat video
30. 27 SepISIS tortures and executes Iraqi women’s-rights activist
31. 27 SepChristian bodybuilders find Biblical justification for swinging
32. 27 SepSpiffy evolution coins
33. 27 SepMusic and love
34. 26 SepFriday: Hili dialogue
35. 26 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
36. 26 SepA kerfuffle over the veil in an English school
37. 26 SepOwls vs. GoPro
38. 26 SepGuest post: “The mind boggles: four leading UK universities accept creationist pseudoscience diploma as entry qualification”
39. 26 SepThe Guardian continues to flog Karen Armstrong’s book
40. 26 SepFishes mimic leaves
41. 26 SepOMG: Monster leech swallows giant worm
42. 25 SepThursday: Hili dialogue
43. 25 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
44. 25 SepJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ (Mo)rality
45. 25 SepAncient amphibians could regrow their limbs
46. 25 SepA miracle!
47. 25 SepAndrew Brown: the low-hanging fruit of atheism
48. 25 SepA video response by the godless to the movie “God’s Not Dead”
49. 24 SepTuesday: Hili dialogue
50. 24 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
51. 24 SepA “success” in Syria?
52. 24 SepReport that monster prehistoric shark, once thought extinct, has been caught alive
53. 24 SepA positive review of Karen Armstrong’s book: frantic osculation by Ferdinand Mount
54. 24 SepWednesday’s cat is lacking ears
55. 23 SepTuesday: Hili dialogue
56. 23 SepChicago: island in the clouds
57. 23 SepGoogle Doodle: Fall is here
58. 23 SepWake up!: “It Never Entered My Mind”
59. 23 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
60. 23 SepAn air war against ISIS won’t work
61. 23 SepAnother tw**t at Deepakity
62. 23 SepAccommodatheism #2: More gratuitous atheist-bashing in an mainstream article on the Creation Museum
63. 23 SepDinesh d’Souza spared jail
64. 23 SepThe best lab meeting ever
65. 22 SepMonday: Hili dialogue
66. 22 SepWake up!
67. 22 SepMy heart is breaking
68. 22 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
69. 22 SepRe-emphasis of a Rool
70. 22 SepAccommodatheism I: Salon proposes that we all stop criticizing the low-hanging believers
71. 22 SepLondon Natural History Museum Photo contest
72. 21 SepSunday: Hili dialogue
73. 21 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
74. 21 SepAre chimps natural-born killers?
75. 21 SepAyaan Hirsi Ali’s speech at Yale
76. 21 SepKeeping the faith: an apologist argues that religion isn’t responsible for anything bad
77. 20 SepSaturday: Hili dialogue
78. 20 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
79. 20 SepCaturday felid trifecta: Cat artist, Jerry the Cat, and exercising with your cat (plus bonus)
80. 20 SepStephen Prothero on “Are all religions the same?”
81. 20 SepWonderful Life: The birds of paradise
82. 20 SepAdam Lee has lost it
83. 19 SepHili dialogue: Friday
84. 19 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
85. 19 SepBetter together?
86. 19 SepThe coolest cat in the bunch
87. 19 SepWilliam Lane Craig answers a distressed reader: “If ISIS’s god were mine, should I do what he says?”
88. 19 SepCountershading doesn’t always work
89. 19 SepFriday squee: Petting a wombat and teaching a polar bear to walk
90. 18 SepThursday: Hili dialogue
91. 18 SepBack-to-school boots
92. 18 SepA child soldier in Syria, and Muslim beheadings thwarted in Australia
93. 18 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
94. 18 SepThe Archbishop of Canterbury doubts existence of God—but he’s certain about Jesus!
95. 18 SepHow not to email a professor
96. 18 SepWhy is this thing not like the others?: Bill Maher schools Charlie Rose on the perfidies of Islam
97. 18 SepA bookish coincidence
98. 18 SepMy prediction on Scotland
99. 18 SepFox trifecta
100. 18 SepBonus hawks
101. 17 SepWednesday: Hili dialogue
102. 17 SepMy Old School & Bad Sneakers
103. 17 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
104. 17 SepJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the “no true Muslim” fallacy
105. 17 SepGuest post: journalist Faye Flam tells scientists how to talk to reporters
106. 17 SepThe argument for Not God from the Empty Roll
107. 17 SepFlorida decision to distribute Bibles in schools backfires: Satanists can hand out their stuff, too!
108. 17 SepAyaan Hirsi Ali’s talk at Yale: no “hate speech” in evidence
109. 17 SepDaily fox: Man rescues fox kit with its head stuck in a can
110. 17 SepStill Church, but not with evolution
111. 16 SepTuesday: Hili dialogue
112. 16 SepDevil Cat and Surgeon’s Assistant Cat
113. 16 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
114. 16 SepCrybaby Catholics
115. 16 SepDavid Gelernter schools the free-speech cowards at Yale
116. 16 SepNPR attacks “Spockian” atheists
117. 16 SepPlayful fox steals golf ball
118. 15 SepMonday: Hili dialogue
119. 15 SepWhipping Post
120. 15 SepReaders’ wildlife photos: Monday
121. 15 SepA new proof of God: The argument from The Matrix
122. 15 SepMy piece on “true faith” in The New Republic
123. 15 SepA great profile of Al Pacino
124. 15 SepObama vs. ISIS
125. 15 SepThe fly emerges
126. 15 SepThe ghost ouside the machine
127. 14 SepSunday: Hili dialogue
128. 14 SepReaders’ wildlife photographs
129. 14 SepHotel offers “spiritual menu” of scriptures
130. 14 SepYet another university calls for the marginalization of Ayaan Hirsi Ali
131. 14 SepHere’s the Finnish mammal
132. 14 SepThe only known recording of Sigmund Freud’s voice
133. 14 SepA tw**t to the Yale Muslim Students’ Association
134. 14 SepCat versus lemon
135. 14 SepThe good news and the bad news
136. 13 SepSaturday: Hili dialogue
137. 13 SepCaturday felid: World premiere of “Hili and Cyrus”
138. 13 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
139. 13 SepReaders’ beefs of the week
140. 13 SepPenn State deep-sixes Bibles in its hotel rooms
141. 13 SepSpot the Finnish mammal
142. 13 SepAnother Pastafarian gets a driver’s license picture
143. 13 SepDreadful, dreadful journalism
144. 12 SepFriday: Hili dialogue
145. 12 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
146. 12 SepWhat is a “true” religion?
147. 12 SepRIP Hamish McHamish
148. 12 SepWhy is premeditated murder worse than non-premeditated murder?
149. 12 SepSquirrel pups 2.0!
150. 12 SepHow does the week end?
151. 11 SepThursday: Hili dialogue
152. 11 SepChicago: sunset
153. 11 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
154. 11 SepPennsylvania teenager faces jail time for “desecrating a venerated object”
155. 11 SepCritically endangered bat found—on a Florida golf course!
156. 11 SepSam Harris refuses to osculate the rump of Islam
157. 11 SepSquirrel guarding body of its friend?
158. 10 SepWednesday: Hili dialogue
159. 10 SepJesus ‘n’ Mo, Calvin ‘n’ Hobbes, and Bonnie ‘n’ Clyde
160. 10 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
161. 10 Sep“Left Behind”: the movie
162. 10 SepA Twi**er exchange
163. 10 SepA prisoner wants answers about evolution
164. 10 SepDragonfly watch: we have mating!
165. 10 SepA tw**t from Hugh Laurie
166. 9 SepTuesday: Hili dialogue
167. 9 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
168. 9 SepGoogle Doodle celebrates Tolstoy
169. 9 SepJohn Dickson at the ABC: Theology is so sophisticated that it doesn’t need a subject
170. 9 SepIllusion explained
171. 9 SepU.C. Berkeley chancellor hedges on free speech
172. 9 SepSheffield evolution murals
173. 9 SepLeftover cats
174. 8 SepMonday: Hili dialogue
175. 8 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
176. 8 SepThe New Yorker Festival, avec les chats et moi
177. 8 SepDan Fincke responds to me, claiming morality is objective
178. 8 SepA wonderful attack on the “militant fundamentalist atheism” trope
179. 8 SepSpot the moths
180. 8 SepPaw de deux
181. 8 SepAnother bizarre illusion
182. 7 SepSunday: Hili dialogue
183. 7 SepTheo, the coffee-drinking cat, says, “Wake up!”
184. 7 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
185. 7 SepA new phylum of very weird sea creatures
186. 7 SepMy interview with the Polish Rationalists
187. 7 SepMore tinder: Bart Ehrman’s speech on Jesus at the FFRF regional convention
188. 7 SepA rare video of an exploding volcano
189. 7 SepAnother sad anniversary
190. 6 SepSaturday: Hili dialogue
191. 6 SepReaders’ wildlife photos (with moar biology)
192. 6 SepCaturday felid trifecta: lovestruck lynxes, cat “saves” owner in fire, and my new toy
193. 6 SepDavid Brooks and his weakness for the sacred
194. 6 SepRembrandt and anatomy
195. 6 SepJesus snak-pak
196. 6 SepMongoose takes on four lions—and wins!
197. 6 SepLaura Nyro (reimagined)
198. 5 SepFriday: Hili dialogue
199. 5 SepReaders’ wildlife photos (and a biology lesson)
200. 5 SepHow the Bible came to be
201. 5 SepGuest post: On the historicity of Jesus
202. 5 SepReaders’ beefs and insults
203. 5 SepOMG, now they’re in Germany!
204. 5 SepCats vs. prayer
205. 4 SepThursday: Hili dialogue
206. 4 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
207. 4 SepYour new home address: Laniakea
208. 4 SepNYT on ISIS: a disgrace to “true fundamentalism”
209. 4 SepOhio supposedly makes its school standards bill more amenable to science
210. 4 Sepxkcd on the Colbert Report
211. 4 SepReaders’ encomiums
212. 4 SepMore X rays: a person eating
213. 4 SepDaily superstition: Indian woman marries a d*g
214. 3 SepWednesday: Hili dialogue
215. 3 SepReader’s wildlife photos
216. 3 SepA trippy xkcd celebrates a book launch
217. 3 SepA depressing poll from Palestine
218. 3 SepThe most interesting d*g in the world
219. 3 SepA big honking exploding star
220. 3 SepJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ missionizing
221. 3 SepDuck Dynasty guru becomes a political pundit on Fox News: “We have to either convert them or kill them”
222. 3 SepA human swallowing
223. 3 SepNew Irish cat stamps (and a d*g cartoon)
224. 2 SepTuesday: Hili dialogue
225. 2 SepBack-to-school boots
226. 2 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
227. 2 SepWhy do the dots disappear?
228. 2 SepEvolution now officially part of British primary-school curriculum
229. 2 SepMost viewed and commented-on posts
230. 2 SepA cute tw**t
231. 1 SepMonday: Hili dialogue
232. 1 SepReaders’ wildlife photos
233. 1 SepOnce there were billions
234. 1 SepDaniel Fincke: morality is objective
235. 1 SepA Jehovah’s Witness criticizes me for criticizing their policy on blood transfusions
236. 1 SepSpot the tawny frogmouths
237. 1 SepCat with head-mounted laser

August 2014

1. 31 AugSunday: Hili dialogue
2. 31 AugReaders’ wildlife photographs
3. 31 AugPittsburgh: #3
4. 31 AugReaders’ wildlife photos: Jesus seen in a moth
5. 31 AugFrank Bruni at the NYT discusses Sam Harris’s new book
6. 31 AugA professor gives his students an object lesson in religious bigotry
7. 31 AugA tw**t
8. 30 AugSaturday: Hili dialogue
9. 30 AugReaders’ wildlife photographs
10. 30 AugCaturday felid: Pizza Hut run by cats, and sad moggies
11. 30 AugPittsburgh: #2
12. 30 AugA very early fish
13. 30 AugChopra wants me to officially endorse his new paradigm of consciousness
14. 30 AugA Twi**er exchange
15. 30 AugR.I.P. Victor Stenger (1935-2014)
16. 30 AugKangaroolet with bandages and skivvies
17. 29 AugFriday: Hili dialogue
18. 29 AugReaders’ wildlife photos
19. 29 AugPittsburgh!
20. 29 AugOnce again: did Jesus exist?
21. 29 AugThe cell or the pew? Courts give prostitutes choice of religion or jail
22. 29 AugZero-G kittehs
23. 28 AugThursday: Hili Dialogue
24. 28 AugReaders’ wildlife photos
25. 28 AugGood morning!
26. 28 AugWhen did the Neanderthals go extinct?
27. 28 AugTwo pieces on journalism in the Israel-Palestine conflict
28. 28 AugWhy do people buy water?
29. 28 AugMeanwhile, back in Muncie. . .
30. 28 AugCat vs. deer
31. 27 AugWednesday: Hili dialogue
32. 27 AugWednesday: Reader’s wildlife photos
33. 27 AugFour new see-through frogs from Peru
34. 27 AugYikes! Keep those spare bedroom windows *shut*
35. 27 AugRutherford (and Cobb) on Rembrandt
36. 27 AugI was prescient! Bill Nye and the Ark Park
37. 27 AugJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ family values
38. 27 AugThe Thinking Atheist’s book
39. 27 AugHacker cat!
40. 26 AugTuesday: Hili dialogue
41. 26 AugPascal’s Wager fail
42. 26 AugReaders’ wildlife photos
43. 26 AugKing’s College London comes to its senses, deep-sixes postgraduate theology curriculum
44. 26 AugFeeds working?
45. 26 AugPittsburgh this weekend!
46. 26 AugKhan Academy’s strange accommodationism between evolution and intelligent design (aka God)
47. 26 AugCats knocking stuff off tables and stuff
48. 25 AugMonday: Hili dialogue
49. 25 AugChicago: sunset
50. 25 AugReaders’ wildlife photographs (and spot the pika!)
51. 25 AugI had a dream
52. 25 AugGoogle Doodle honors Althea Gibson
53. 25 AugDinesh puts his foot in it again, this time about Ferguson
54. 25 AugThere was no first human
55. 25 AugPika-boo: here’s the lagomorph
56. 25 AugCheetah cub squeaking
57. 24 AugSunday: Hili dialogue
58. 24 AugPareiodolia
59. 24 AugReaders’ wildlife photos
60. 24 AugPurloined Jesus wafer returned to Church after legal threat
61. 24 AugHow does philosophy help science?
62. 24 AugTwo debates on science vs. faith: Craig vs. Caroll and Craig vs. Krauss
63. 24 AugCrowdsourcing: Clarke’s Third Law
64. 24 AugBafftime!
65. 23 AugSaturday: Hili dialogue
66. 23 AugReaders’ wildlife photos
67. 23 AugCaturday felid trifecta: Cat superhero and supernerd, Hello Kitty goes into space, and cat furniture
68. 23 AugReaders’ beefs of the week
69. 23 AugAccommodationism from a physicist
70. 23 AugIt’s not just cats who like belly rubs
71. 22 AugFriday: Hili dialogue
72. 22 AugReaders’ wildlife photos
73. 22 Aug“Take pleasure in it”: a Wahhabi cleric gives lesson on how to behead (no beheadings shown!); and a poll on Western support of ISIS
74. 22 AugCatholics object to Ice Bucket Challenge because ALS research uses human embryos
75. 22 AugA swell license plate
76. 22 AugOld Blue Eyes on religion: “When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday — cash me out”
77. 22 AugGoalkeeper scores goal
78. 22 AugPaws and relax on British Airways
79. 21 AugThursday: Hili dialogue
80. 21 AugThe natural order
81. 21 AugReader’s wildlife photos
82. 21 AugObama characterizes ISIS as “nihilistic” and “speaking for no religion”
83. 21 AugReligious medical nonsense I: God gets credit for Ebola survivors
84. 21 AugCreationist bill pending in Ohio legislature
85. 21 AugReligious medical nonsense II. African Christians attribute Ebola to God’s wrath
86. 21 AugCat defies moat to wake up owner
87. 20 AugWednesday: Hili dialogue
88. 20 AugTwo cartoons
89. 20 AugReaders’ wildlife photos
90. 20 AugMy New Republic piece on the Irish abortion case
91. 20 AugAn important New York Times correction about bird poop
92. 20 AugE. O. Wilson on free will
93. 20 AugSpot the platypus!
94. 20 AugMichael Shermer interviews the Pope
95. 19 AugTuesday: Hili Dialogue
96. 19 AugMoar kittens for Linda
97. 19 AugReaders’ wildlife photographs
98. 19 AugCreationist “lab” probably staged, but certainly unused
99. 19 AugAndrew Brown really hates Richard Dawkins
100. 19 AugAnother fake science blackboard (with Professor Ceiling Cat)
101. 19 AugDarwinian humor
102. 19 AugSic transit gloria mundi
103. 18 AugMonday: Hili dialogue
104. 18 AugHere’s the nightjar!
105. 18 AugWork to do
106. 18 AugCatholic barbarity in Europe
107. 18 AugMonday: Readers’ wildlife photographs
108. 18 AugIrish pregnancy flowchart
109. 18 AugTw**ets from Darwin and the Beagle: the Great Man envies kittens
110. 17 AugSunday: Hili dialogue
111. 17 AugReaders’ wildlife photographs
112. 17 AugA Polish kitten does monologues
113. 17 AugThe 50 Smartest “People of faith”?
114. 17 AugSpot the nightjars!
115. 17 AugMore readers of Andrew Sullivan go after Michael Robbins’s Sophisticated Theology
116. 17 AugMarmot video-bombs time-lapse film of Glacier Park, licks camera
117. 16 AugSaturday: Hili dialogue
118. 16 AugReaders’ wildlife photographs
119. 16 AugCaturday felids: videos and haikus (and maybe a contest)
120. 16 AugTexas newspaper: “Researchers” want to “prove” creationism
121. 16 AugHere are the crabs. . . I think
122. 16 AugThe bottom of the creationist barrel: the Argument from Photoshopped Cow
123. 16 AugThe wonders of genetics: a seedless melon
124. 15 AugFriday: Hili dialogue
125. 15 AugReaders’ wildlife photos
126. 15 AugFriday music: Salut Salon
127. 15 AugA shot across Lebanon, Missouri’s bow
128. 15 AugSynechdoches I hate
129. 15 AugSpot the crabs
130. 15 AugVICE News: The Islamic State, part 5
131. 15 AugPutin in manliness contest with Obama
132. 15 AugBillboard of the week
133. 14 AugThursday: Hili dialogue
134. 14 AugWhat were they? (And a new one)
135. 14 AugReaders’ wildlife photographs
136. 14 AugThe continuing decline of American religiosity
137. 14 AugA short Twi**er exchange on evolution
138. 14 AugHere’s the killdeer!
139. 14 AugSteve Pinker on the evolutionary significance of music
140. 14 AugWhat was it?
141. 14 AugA dog trying to save fish?
142. 13 AugWednesday: Hili dialogue
143. 13 AugChicago: evening
144. 13 AugReaders’ wildlife photos
145. 13 AugThe Grants in the Galápagos and their hybrid species
146. 13 AugSpot the killdeer!
147. 13 AugSwell space pictures: A space probe catches up with a comet
148. 13 AugVICE News: The Islamic State, part 4
149. 13 AugWhat are they?
150. 12 AugTuesday: Special Hili dialogue!
151. 12 AugReaders’ wildlife photos
152. 12 AugThe Outsider’s Test for Everything
153. 12 AugVICE News report on the Islamic State. Part 3: Enforcing Sharia in Raqqa (and Maryam Namazie on ISIS)
154. 12 AugPro-ISIS pamphlet—from London
155. 12 AugRobin Williams, depression, and Stephen Fry
156. 12 AugGoogle Doodle celebrates meteor shower
157. 12 AugNote to readers
158. 12 AugCat with a monkey on its back (and bonus felid)
159. 12 AugLauren Bacall died
160. 11 AugMonday: Hili dialogue
161. 11 AugThe Albatross is here!
162. 11 AugReaders’ wildlife photos
163. 11 AugA truly WTF article in The New York Times
164. 11 AugMore buzz about Dembski
165. 11 Aug“That’s my boy”: ISIS militant proud of son holding up a severed head, ISIS stones two women for adultery
166. 11 AugBad idea of the year: Texas contemplates allowing alcohol at gun shows
167. 11 AugArmadillos need love, too
168. 11 AugBaby foxes playing
169. 11 AugRobin Williams died
170. 10 AugSunday: Hili dialogue
171. 10 AugReaders’ wildlife photos
172. 10 AugMoar logos
173. 10 Aug“The Islamic State” from Vice News: part 2
174. 10 AugNew Christian app: “Shut up, Devil”
175. 10 AugWhy Dembski is speaking at the University of Chicago
176. 10 AugTwo cats for Sunday
177. 9 AugSaturday: Hili dialogue
178. 9 AugReaders’ wildlife photos
179. 9 AugCaturday felid: Gus gets his breakfast, and then tea, and two bonus photos
180. 9 AugOur letter to the New York Times criticizing Nicholas Wade’s book on race
181. 9 AugI haz logos!
182. 9 AugThe perils of ISIS
183. 8 AugFriday: Hili dialogue
184. 8 AugHow to raise giant caterpillars
185. 8 AugIt’s World Cat Day!
186. 8 AugCreationist Dembski gives academic talk at MY university!
187. 8 AugRobert F. Kennedy Jr.: anti-vaxer
188. 8 AugGuitar-string company gives discount for using “Jesus Christ” coupon
189. 8 AugBaxter’s Tale for World Cat Day
190. 7 AugThursday: Hili dialogue
191. 7 AugTaxi
192. 7 AugReaders’ wildlife photos (and videos!)
193. 7 AugCarol Tavris on accusations vs. skepticism
194. 7 AugThe tuatara’s parietal eye
195. 7 AugNorth Carolina diner drops religious discount
196. 7 AugIf scientists had logos
197. 7 AugTony Bennett
198. 6 AugWednesday: Hili dialogue
199. 6 AugReaders’ wildlife photos
200. 6 AugRestaurant gives discounts to customers praying in public
201. 6 AugJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ evolution
202. 6 AugThe worst pain known to humans: the “bullet ant” gloves of Brazil
203. 6 AugWikimedia rules that monkey, not photographer, owns media rights to a primate selfie
204. 5 AugDawkins decries taboos in discussions about society
205. 5 AugDuke again offers free Coursera course: “Introduction to genetics and evolution”
206. 5 AugRare footage: a baby tuatara enters the world
207. 4 AugReaders’ wildlife photographs
208. 4 AugGoogle Doodle honors John Venn
209. 4 AugLawrence O’Donnell takes out after Ark Park, and Bible as well
210. 4 AugMonday: Dobrzyn
211. 4 AugBlissed out in dreamland
212. 4 AugA thieving mink
213. 4 AugTuesday: Hili dialogue
214. 4 AugReaders’ wildlife photographs
215. 4 AugA request
216. 3 AugA new “geep,” a sheep/goat hybrid
217. 3 AugThe bonobo and the atheist-basher, part 2
218. 3 AugBear saves crow. But why?
219. 3 AugThe real heroes
220. 3 AugDobrzyn: Sunday
221. 3 AugMonday: Hili dialogue
222. 2 AugReaders’ wildlife photographs
223. 2 AugThe bonobo and the atheist-basher: Frans de Waal disses atheism
224. 2 AugCaturday felid quadrafecta: reading cats, cat essay, dog-walking cat, phallus-marked cat
225. 2 AugEvolution 2014: Talks now online
226. 2 AugWhat does the cheetah say?
227. 2 AugSaturday: Dobrzyn
228. 2 AugSunday: Hili dialogue
229. 2 AugReaders’ wildlife photos
230. 1 AugFriday: Hili dialogue
231. 1 AugReaders’ wildlife photographs
232. 1 AugStephen Fry on “How do we know what is true?”
233. 1 AugIsraeli-Palestinian cease fire lasts four hours, broken by Hamas rockets and kidnapping an Israeli soldier
234. 1 AugDon McLeroy tells us why he believes in the Resurrection and its 500 witnesses
235. 1 AugThursday: Dobrzyn
236. 1 AugSaturday: Hili dialogue

July 2014

1. 31 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
2. 31 JulLegalize it!
3. 31 JulBan it!
4. 31 JulHigh Turkish official: there should be no female laughter in public
5. 31 JulTurkish women defy deputy prime minister by laughing publicly
6. 31 JulWorld’s smallest copy of WEIT
7. 31 JulDobrzyn: Thursday
8. 30 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
9. 30 JulAlabama officials: God created coal in our state, we pray that the gub’mint lets us burn it at will
10. 30 JulA tight squeeze
11. 30 JulMashable video: Common myths about evolution
12. 30 JulQuality time with the Princess
13. 30 JulSomali woman reportedly killed for not wearing a veil
14. 30 JulUpdate: Jerry Coyne the Cat
15. 30 JulWednesday: Dobrzyn
16. 30 JulThursday: Hili dialogue
17. 29 JulTuesday: Hili dialogue
18. 29 JulReaders’ wildlife photographs
19. 29 JulLet’s stop teaching philosophy of religion in secular colleges
20. 29 JulCats vs. d*gs: which is more popular, and where?
21. 29 JulI don’t think this will work. . .
22. 29 JulEvolution 2014: Food
23. 29 JulWednesday: Hili dialogue
24. 28 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
25. 28 JulSam Harris on the Israel/Palestine conflict
26. 28 JulCatholicism and theistic evolution
27. 28 JulKentucky about to give tax breaks to Ark Park
28. 28 JulMonday: Dobrzyn
29. 27 JulSunday: Dobrzyn
30. 27 JulReaders’ beefs of the week
31. 27 JulA new feathered dinosaur suggests that most dinosaurs had feathers
32. 27 JulA nest of loggerhead turtles hatch, babies head to sea
33. 27 JulThe best job in the world
34. 27 JulMonday: Hili dialogue
35. 26 JulReaders’ wildlife photographs
36. 26 JulCaturday felid quadrafecta: Update on rescued Chinese kittens, cat wants something really bad, and kittens attack reflections and ceramic kittens
37. 26 JulDobrzyn: Saturday
38. 26 JulBeliever Michael Robbins exhibits Maru’s Syndrome on The Dish
39. 26 JulReligious abuse of children
40. 26 JulSunday: Hili dialogue
41. 25 JulReaders’ wildlife photos (hummingbird rescue)
42. 25 JulFriday: Dobrzyn
43. 25 JulThe news: the good, the woo, and the quackery
44. 25 JulHUGE aquatic insect reported (and other big bugs)
45. 25 JulRIP Elijah, famous bourbon-distillery cat
46. 25 JulShirley and Jenny: An elephant never forgets
47. 25 JulSaturday: Hili dialogue
48. 24 JulReaders’ wildlife photographs
49. 24 JulThursday: Dobrzyn
50. 24 JulAnother U.S. execution botched
51. 24 JulA tale of two crows
52. 24 JulThe infatuated leopard experience
53. 24 JulFriday: Hili dialogue
54. 23 JulReader’s wildlife photographs
55. 23 JulWednesday: Dobrzyn
56. 23 JulAfghani mullah rapes ten-year-old girl; family wants to kill her
57. 23 JulFox noms, damages, and absconds with GoPro camera
58. 23 JulHili dialogue: Thursday
59. 22 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
60. 22 JulDobrzyn: Monday
61. 22 JulLife imitates art
62. 22 JulKen Ham calls U.S. space program a waste, since the Bible tells us that alien life doesn’t exist (and would be damned anyway)
63. 22 JulHuge mayfly emergence captured on radar
64. 22 JulTwo cartoons for Tuesday
65. 22 JulWednesday: Hili dialogue
66. 21 JulReaders’ wildlife photographs
67. 21 JulA cherry Sunday in Dobrzyn
68. 21 JulPhilosopher John Gray denigrates reason and promotes religion on the BBC
69. 21 JulTen cats but one less person
70. 21 JulTuesday: Hili dialogue
71. 20 JulSunday: Hili dialogue
72. 20 JulI have landed
73. 20 JulBurger King introduces a “gay pride” burger, Christians worried that believers may consume one inadvertently
74. 20 JulBeware of the cat
75. 20 JulThe Jesus Delusion
76. 20 JulMcLeroy replies about the crucifixion
77. 20 JulMonday: Hili dialogue
78. 19 JulSaturday: Hili dialogue
79. 19 JulCaturday felids: Chessie the railroad kitten
80. 19 JulWeekly reader beefs
81. 19 JulReaders’ wildlife photographs
82. 19 JulCatholic biologist Ken Miller talks about God and evolution
83. 18 JulFriday: Hili dialogue
84. 18 JulReaders’ wildlife photographs
85. 18 JulToday’s Google Doodle: Nelson Mandela
86. 18 JulWhen did people become “souls”?
87. 18 JulUnlimited reading through Kindle: $9.99 per month
88. 18 JulLouisiana judge rules against creationist teacher
89. 18 JulSeeking “objective morality,” an atheist blogger became a Catholic
90. 18 JulLong-lost section of Bayeux Tapestry found
91. 18 JulAnother Schrödinger’s cat meme
92. 17 JulThursday: Hili dialogue (and bonus Fitness picture)
93. 17 JulSupport the Denver Cat Company redux
94. 17 JulReaders’ wildlife photographs
95. 17 JulA new feathered and four-winged dinosaur
96. 17 JulThe Deepakity continues his “million dollar challenge,” and I have one for him!
97. 17 JulPhotos of the day: real tweets and a felid
98. 16 JulWednesday: Hili dialogue
99. 16 JulJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ women bishops
100. 16 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
101. 16 JulFFRF complains again, Lebanon school board stonewalls (a bad move)
102. 16 JulThere are no ring species
103. 16 JulHelp Denver open North America’s first cat cafe
104. 16 JulArchie Andrews died today—after 73 years in the comics
105. 16 JulI join the Pinkah in Sci Am for the FFRF
106. 15 JulTuesday: Hili dialogue
107. 15 JulFootie fallout
108. 15 JulReaders’ wildlife photographs
109. 15 JulQuote of the day redux
110. 15 JulTempleton, heaven, and the media
111. 15 JulA dog’s last day on earth
112. 15 JulTrouble in MormonLand: marginalization of women threatens Church
113. 15 JulAttack of the Killer Adelie!
114. 15 JulNipped out
115. 14 JulMonday: Hili dialogue
116. 14 JulChicago: Sunrise, sunset. . . .
117. 14 JulThe end of footie
118. 14 JulWhy are faitheists so nasty?
119. 14 JulCoE allows women bishops
120. 14 JulEvolution 2014: Daniel Matute, Dobzhansky Prize winner
121. 14 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
122. 14 JulA tw**t from Pinker
123. 14 JulThe luckiest people in the world
124. 13 JulSunday: Hili dialogue (and bonus photo)
125. 13 JulToday’s footie (felid picks Germany to win)
126. 13 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
127. 13 JulA reminder of Da Roolz
128. 13 JulConfused science writer claims that atheists might not exist
129. 13 JulAny happening does not happen: Zen Maru
130. 13 JulOy vey!
131. 13 JulA militant atheist
132. 12 JulSaturday: Hili dialogue
133. 12 JulToday’s footie
134. 12 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
135. 12 JulWeekly emails
136. 12 JulDo believers see scripture as literally true?
137. 12 JulCaturday felid trifecta: pleasing cat meows, cats’ heads on their owners’ bodies, and Gus the earless cat
138. 11 JulFriday: Hili dialogue
139. 11 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
140. 11 JulKentucky state legislator says the dumbest thing ever about climate change
141. 11 JulWhy do people deny climate change? Plus a plea for accommodationism (not from me)
142. 11 JulFacebook on science vs. religion
143. 11 JulToday’s footie: The Chomper goes to Barça
144. 11 JulA good cat mom
145. 10 JulThursday: Hili dialogue
146. 10 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
147. 10 JulA new Rool
148. 10 JulToday’s footie, and the progress of our contest
149. 10 JulGary Gutting interviews Michael Ruse and asks him why he coddles religion
150. 10 JulA. A. Milne reads from Winnie the Pooh
151. 10 JulReader writes essay on Robbins, his allegorizing, and his attack on New Atheists
152. 10 JulSeven kittens react in unison
153. 9 JulWednesday: Hili dialogue
154. 9 JulToday’s footie
155. 9 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
156. 9 JulMichael Robbins uses a book review as an excuse to bash atheists—again!
157. 9 JulTwo analyses of Brazil’s defeat
158. 9 JulTwo animal cams: a snowy owl and a puffin, both with chicks
159. 9 JulGo Argentina!
160. 9 JulRIP Milo
161. 8 JulTuesday: Hili dialogue
162. 8 JulToday’s footie
163. 8 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
164. 8 JulDo people who deny evolution know less about it than others?
165. 8 JulTwo physicists pile on Chopra
166. 8 JulMoth mimics bird poop
167. 8 JulOy vey!
168. 8 JulA century-old riddle
169. 7 JulMonday: Hili dialogue
170. 7 JulHere are the nightjars
171. 7 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
172. 7 JulAtlanta public school teacher pushes creationism in biology class
173. 7 JulWhy not?
174. 7 JulSpot the fossil belostomatids!
175. 7 JulAnthony Grayling reviews Barbara Ehrenreich’s book on the numinous
176. 7 JulDumb Kickstarter project on potato salad nets a guy nearly 11 grand. I want in!
177. 6 JulSunday: Hili dialogue
178. 6 JulToday’s footie
179. 6 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
180. 6 JulA Christian scientist tells us why evolution and religion are compatible, but gets it all wrong
181. 6 JulSpot the nightjars!
182. 6 JulIsrael arrests suspects in both murders: the Israeli teens and the Palestinian teen
183. 6 JulPennsylvania State Atheist and Humanist Conference avec moi
184. 5 JulSaturday: Hili dialogue
185. 5 JulChicago: four moods and Chinese food
186. 5 JulCaturday felid: kitten rescue in Szechuan!
187. 5 JulToday’s footie, with added biology
188. 5 JulGuest post: thief pleads for leniency because he’s a good Christian.
189. 5 Jul“You call that a tuft? Now THIS is a tuft!”: the squirrel with the bushiest tail
190. 5 JulFootie #2
191. 4 JulFriday: Hili dialogue
192. 4 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
193. 4 JulToday’s footie (and repost)
194. 4 JulFlies and the Declaration of Independence
195. 4 JulThe Telegraph: Stop treating the Palestinians like children
196. 4 JulHalf-time cat
197. 4 JulGuest post: The truth about that Pallas’s cat video
198. 3 JulThursday: Hili dialogue
199. 3 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
200. 3 JulAngel
201. 3 JulChimps learn to stick grass in their ears—for no good reason
202. 3 JulToday’s footie
203. 3 JulThe heathen parts of Britain, and how Andrew Brown claims them for faith
204. 3 JulA trifecta lightning strike in Chicago
205. 3 JulInterspecific love?
206. 2 JulWednesday: Hili dialogue
207. 2 JulJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ evolution
208. 2 JulToday’s footie
209. 2 JulA joke
210. 2 JulScience shows that yetis and Bigfoots are just well-known animals
211. 2 JulChopra and Cox enter the box
212. 2 JulMore on the kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers (and now a Palestinian one)
213. 2 JulThe FFRF’s ad against the Hobby Lobby decision
214. 2 JulCat caught stealing from drawer
215. 1 JulTuesday: Hili dialogue
216. 1 JulToday’s footie
217. 1 JulI Will Remember You
218. 1 JulHamas kidnaps and kills three Israeli teenagers, Palestine fires rockets at civilians
219. 1 JulReaders’ wildlife photos
220. 1 JulThe shrinking Arctic ice cap
221. 1 JulCoco’s new bed

June 2014

1. 30 JunMonday: Hili dialogue
2. 30 JunChicago: panorama and baseball
3. 30 JunToday’s footie
4. 30 JunWhat’s going on in Lebanon, Missouri?
5. 30 JunOh, dear God: the Supreme Court sides with Hobby Lobby
6. 30 JunThe FFRF’s take on the Hobby Lobby decision
7. 30 JunCeci n’est pas une bouteille
8. 30 JunReaders’ wildlife photos
9. 30 JunIf I were Noah—redux
10. 29 JunSunday: Hili dialogue (and bonus photo)
11. 29 JunToday’s footie
12. 29 JunReaders’ wildlife photographs
13. 29 JunElsevier and other academic publishers still gouging libraries
14. 29 JunA new species of mammal (a sengi)
15. 29 JunDid anybody ever think otherwise?
16. 29 JunAmericans don’t really like soccer; they like to WIN
17. 28 JunSaturday: Hili dialogue
18. 28 JunCaturday felid trifecta: Missing cat comes home after 13 years; cat rescued from vending maching; cat mouses in distillery
19. 28 JunToday’s footie, an email from Brazil, and the status of the Big Contest
20. 28 JunI get email
21. 28 JunWhat happened?
22. 27 JunFriday: Hili dialogue
23. 27 JunToday’s footie report
24. 27 JunAppeals court overrules NYC Food Fascists: big sodas are back!
25. 27 JunThe best argument for God? Really?
26. 27 JunTim White pwns a creationist student
27. 27 JunIt is finished.
28. 27 JunIt’s Friday and I’m knackered
29. 26 JunThursday: Hili dialogue
30. 26 JunToday’s footie
31. 26 JunA poorly written paper on a lovely rodent
32. 26 JunFootie news just in: US/Germany game to go on, chomper Suarez booted from World Cup
33. 26 JunThe incompatibility of religion and cricket
34. 26 JunHalftime footie spoiler: US vs. Germany
35. 26 JunAnd a little child shall lead them. . .
36. 26 JunAnimal parents
37. 25 JunWednesday: Hili dialogue
38. 25 JunToday’s footie, the Chomp that will live in infamy, and our contest continues
39. 25 JunSudanese doctor who was condemned for apostasy, and then freed, and then rearrested, has been freed again
40. 25 JunAre there really “best arguments for God”?
41. 25 JunJesus ‘n’ Mo sing!
42. 25 JunA bizarre blood-sucking Jurassic maggot
43. 25 JunNigerian put in mental hospital for atheism
44. 25 JunTen facts about wild felids
45. 25 JunWe have a winner!
46. 24 JunTuesday: Hili dialogue
47. 24 JunToday’s footie (and a mini-contest)
48. 24 JunLast chance to see… pretty much everything, including these Dolichopodids
49. 24 JunAn accommodationist slide at the Evolution meetings
50. 24 JunKarl Giberson is puzzled why theistic evolution isn’t gaining adherents
51. 24 JunA footie tweet about England
52. 24 JunSudan frees woman condemned for marrying a Christian, then rearrests her
53. 24 JunNobody won the football contest
54. 23 JunMonday: Hili dialogue
55. 23 JunA winner of Chopra’s Challenge!
56. 23 JunToday’s footie
57. 23 JunReader’s wildlife photos: the story of Rita and Rocco
58. 23 JunWikileaks released Kent Hovind’s doctoral thesis
59. 23 JunCat-related prank played on coworker
60. 23 JunSome people have fun on vacation, others pontificate
61. 23 JunMan removes owl from his house using a Swiffer®
62. 22 JunSunday: Hili dialogue
63. 22 JunToday’s footie
64. 22 JunReaders’ wildlife photos
65. 22 JunSalon manages to bash atheists while interviewing Ann Druyan about “Cosmos”
66. 22 JunDoonesbury takes on climate-change denialism
67. 22 JunAn Eastern Orthodox priest says I know nothing of God
68. 22 JunWoo of the day
69. 22 JunEvolution bananas this time!
70. 22 JunCeiling Cat bless the Brits!
71. 21 JunSaturday: Hili dialogue
72. 21 JunCaturday felid: Black-footed kittens and my Hili shirt
73. 21 JunToday’s footie
74. 21 JunIs God a vertebrate without substance?
75. 21 JunDeepakities: Chopra gets into the box with Brian Cox
76. 21 JunWhat else would you expect?
77. 21 JunMeanwhile, over at Carole King’s Twi**er feed. . .
78. 20 JunFriday: Hili dialogue
79. 20 JunChicago: storm
80. 20 JunToday’s footie
81. 20 JunReaders’ wildlife photos
82. 20 JunUK bans all teaching of creationism in government-supported schools
83. 20 JunRIP Gerry Goffin
84. 20 JunMore animal play? Pitbull and deer.
85. 20 JunAliens abduct the world’s smartest creature
86. 19 JunThursday: Hili dialogue
87. 19 JunToday’s footie, and a report on Spain’s demise
88. 19 JunOrthodox Church patriarch blesses a t.v. studio with a paint roller
89. 19 JunDo not enter World Cup contest!
90. 19 JunLoretta Breuning retracts her characterization of atheists as “fundamentalists”
91. 19 JunRegrets, I’ve had a few…
92. 19 JunA funny interview with Stephen Hawking
93. 19 JunSpoiler: England vs. Uruguay, in progress
94. 19 JunSpooky smoke cat
95. 18 JunWednesday: Hili dialogue
96. 18 JunJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ stoning
97. 18 JunToday’s footie
98. 18 JunChopra follows up his Million Dollar Challenge, and a short parody
99. 18 JunDr. Oz sent to the woodshed by a U.S. senator
100. 18 JunScience pub quiz questions wanted
101. 18 JunA rolling pin you need
102. 17 JunTuesday: Hili dialogue
103. 17 JunReaders’ wildlife photos
104. 17 JunWorld Cup schedule (with yesterday’s results)
105. 17 JunMore stupid claims that atheists are the same as religious fundamentalists
106. 17 JunElebenty gazillion ducks
107. 17 JunLoretta Breuning cannot help but enter
108. 17 JunEpic rap battle: Newton vs. Bill Nye
109. 17 JunPuffinCam!
110. 17 JunDawkins pursues Chopra’s Million Dollar Challenge
111. 16 JunMonday: Hili dialogue
112. 16 JunToday’s World Cup schedule, and a contest reminder
113. 16 JunMy new shirt
114. 16 JunReaders’ wildlife photos
115. 16 JunDeepak Chopra embarrasses himself by offering a million-dollar prize
116. 16 JunSpot the wood frog
117. 16 JunSome news on the First Amendment front—from the U.S. Supreme Court!
118. 16 JunJust once, Lord, just once. . .
119. 15 JunSunday: Hili dialogue
120. 15 JunReaders’ wildlife photos
121. 15 JunToday’s football
122. 15 JunFootball trifecta: England/Italy highlights, John Oliver on the World Cup, and Cats playing footie
123. 15 JunWorld Cup contest: guess the final game and score
124. 15 JunSome data on global warming
125. 15 JunA warning to Lebanon, Missouri: another state high school successfully sued for promoting religion
126. 15 JunA big tusker killed by poachers
127. 15 JunWorld Cup: Spoiler if you haven’t aren’t watching the game
128. 14 JunSaturday: Hili dialogue
129. 14 JunGraduation day boots
130. 14 JunNo spoilers: Today’s World Cup schedule
131. 14 JunCaturday felids: One kitty hikes, and a fat one purloins gloves
132. 14 JunTime to leave Iraq—for good
133. 14 JunLittle squirrels at play!
134. 14 JunShrimp and prawns sold in US and UK produced by slave labor in Thailand
135. 14 JunIn Austria, Jesus plays football (and spoiler for Italy/England match in comments)
136. 13 JunFriday: Hili dialogue
137. 13 JunReaders’ wildlife photos
138. 13 JunWorld Cup, Day 2: Plan your goofing off now
139. 13 JunSam Harris and the Moral Landscape Challenge
140. 13 JunTwo cartoons
141. 13 JunSt. Louis Archbishop denies knowing that child rape is a crime
142. 13 JunWorld Cup: Viva España!
143. 12 JunThursday: Hili dialogue
144. 12 JunSunset with felid
145. 12 JunReaders’ wildlife photographs
146. 12 JunAndrew Brown minimizes religion’s role in killing Irish babies, but says that we’re all religious
147. 12 JunCreationist: if evolution is true, rape is ok
148. 12 JunGoogle touts the World Cup
149. 12 JunMad scientists? Or, is there any justification for trying to recreate a deadly virus?
150. 12 JunBecause Pie
151. 12 JunMadre de Dios!
152. 11 JunWednesday: Hili Dialogue
153. 11 JunReaders’ wildlife photos
154. 11 JunSpain to deport ex-Muslim for criticizing Islam
155. 11 JunJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ The Waffle
156. 11 JunBig solar flares yesterday
157. 11 JunWorld’s oldest living cat dies at 24
158. 11 JunMessi
159. 10 JunTuesday: Hili dialogue
160. 10 JunReaders’ wildlife photos
161. 10 JunIs the devil in Lebanon, Missouri?
162. 10 JunAcademic journal suggests that schizophrenia may be caused by demons
163. 10 JunMoar bad stuff from Satan (and the Pope)
164. 10 JunBat-o-Rama
165. 10 JunGuest post: Another chapter of Irish shame and Catholic morality
166. 10 JunThe World Cup is nigh!
167. 9 JunMonday: Hili dialogue
168. 9 JunReaders’ wildlife photos
169. 9 JunHili will be jealous. . .
170. 9 JunPinker discusses his new book on Edge
171. 9 Jun“We Christians out number you”: more venom from Lebanon
172. 9 JunA gorgeous salticid: a mascot for the University of Manchester?
173. 9 JunAnthony Grayling: why we need secularism
174. 9 JunSpringwatch: dinosaurs vs reptiles
175. 9 JunIt’s time for tennis players to stop shrieking and grunting
176. 8 JunSunday: Hili dialogue
177. 8 JunGood morning, Professor Ceiling Cat!
178. 8 JunNew Gallup poll: acceptance of evolution rises slightly, creationism falls
179. 8 JunColumnist in Lebanon, Missouri paper gives ringing endorsement to principal’s illegal speech (and disses evolution)
180. 8 JunBill Maher vs. Ralph Reed
181. 8 JunTexas Republicans back converting gay people to straight ones
182. 7 JunSaturday: Hili dialogue
183. 7 JunReaders’ wildlife photos
184. 7 JunCaturday felid: ZeFrank on kittens, and a Buddhist cat funeral
185. 7 JunMore on the Second Amendment and the NRA’s perfidy
186. 7 JunThe citizens of Lebanon, Missouri, rally around their principal and their god
187. 7 JunFalcon feeding time
188. 6 JunFriday: Hili dialogue
189. 6 JunTufty E has his breakfast
190. 6 JunTwo more Lebanon High School students write in
191. 6 JunSteve Pinker’s new book
192. 6 JunLebanon High School principal apologizes—for the second time
193. 6 JunI smell trouble in Lebanon
194. 6 JunCat and snake play nicely together
195. 5 JunThursday: Hili dialogue
196. 5 JunChicago pix
197. 5 JunSpider mimics bird dropping
198. 5 JunA philosopher bashes atheists for dumb reasons
199. 5 JunMeanwhile, back in Lebanon, Missouri, I give a hater a lesson in Constitutional law and biology
200. 5 JunAfternoon delight
201. 4 JunHili dialogue: Wednesday
202. 4 JunPope tells Catholics to have kids, not pets
203. 4 JunChicks at the FalconCam
204. 4 JunYet another Lebanon student opposes public prayer and the religiosity of Lebanon High
205. 4 JunLebanon principal issues a non-apology
206. 4 JunDon Prothero discusses fossils with the Thinking Atheist
207. 4 JunMy Muslim-debate piece in The New Republic
208. 4 JunMy son the cat: all growed up!
209. 3 JunTuesday: Hili dialogue
210. 3 JunTuesday: Fitness dialogue
211. 3 JunThe citizens of Lebanon, Missouri write and call in
212. 3 Jun“Fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote”: The Freedom from Religion Foundation calls out Lebanon’s School Board and Superintendent
213. 3 JunReaders’ wildlife photos
214. 3 JunA lesson about love from the red velvet mite
215. 3 JunThe Friendly Atheist publishes a letter from a disaffected student at Lebanon High School
216. 3 JunYet another Lebanon student writes in
217. 3 JunA Swiss bird toy
218. 2 JunHili dialogue: Monday
219. 2 JunSudanese Christian still under death sentence for apostasy, more on the Lahore stoning case
220. 2 JunI’ve named my squirrel
221. 2 JunNo succor for creationists: Ball State University appoints a scientist as president
222. 2 JunI get emails
223. 2 JunMuslim doctor booted off Egyptian t.v. show for not being extremist enough
224. 2 JunMade it, ma: Top of The Blaze!
225. 2 JunSqrl has a ball
226. 1 JunSunday: Hili dialogue
227. 1 JunReaders’ wildlife photos
228. 1 JunSudan will free Christian doctor sentenced to death for apostasy
229. 1 JunLebanon, Missouri school board member responds to my First-Amendment concerns with snark and defiance
230. 1 JunA reader tells us why cats pwn dogs
231. 1 JunMy rodential offspring: name him

May 2014

1. 31 MaySaturday: Hili dialogue
2. 31 MayThe greatest paper plane ever?
3. 31 MayCaturday felid: Mountain climbing cat, and cat licks kitten off table
4. 31 MayPublic high school principal prays at graduation
5. 31 MayPastor Matthew Hagee: Global warming not produced by humans, but simply a sign of Jesus’s return
6. 31 MayVachement chouette
7. 31 MayU.S. trades Taliban commanders for solider, and I’m confused
8. 30 MayFriday: Hili dialogue
9. 30 MayEarliest evidence of birds visiting flowers
10. 30 MayMan involved in love-match that resulted in stoning of his bride admits strangling previous wife
11. 30 MayA universe fine-tuned for humans?
12. 30 MayTheodicy: the argument from piñatas
13. 30 MaySymphony in sea minor: otters play the keyboard
14. 29 MayThursday: Hili dialogue
15. 29 MayChopra tries to buy me out
16. 29 MayReaders’ wildlife photographs
17. 29 MayDeepak apologizes
18. 29 MaySchrödinger’s guru: dead or alive?
19. 29 MayDefiant hawks
20. 29 MayWikipedia is an error multiplier
21. 29 MaySix blades, five of of them sharp
22. 28 MayWednesday: Hili dialogue
23. 28 MayReaders’ wildlife photos
24. 28 MayA polymathic wacko writes in
25. 28 MayBitterns, bullfinches and blue tits: Springwatch is back.
26. 28 MayImmigrant in NYC beats wife to death for making wrong dinner; argues that in his country, wife-beating is “customary”
27. 28 May“People need to remember that real people died here”
28. 28 MayMr. Deity: Is the Noah’s Ark tale “One of the most moral stories ever told”?
29. 28 MayBaby sqrl!
30. 27 MayTuesday: Hili dialogue
31. 27 MayDeeper than the Holler
32. 27 MayRight-wing politician gives an expensive dino skeleton (proving Noah’s Flood) to the Creation Museum
33. 27 MayGoogle Doodle honors Rachel Carson
34. 27 MayThe schlockiest songs of all time?
35. 27 MayOld-fashioned animation becomes virtual reality
36. 27 MayMeanwhile in Pakistan, a love-match brings death by stoning
37. 26 MayMonday: Hili dialogue
38. 26 MayReaders’ wildlife photos: spring—and babies!
39. 26 MayThe best meal I ever had
40. 26 MayYou might not be able to spot the nightjar, but you can hear it
41. 26 MayDie Tiere auf Deutsch
42. 26 MayPlease, O Ceiling Cat
43. 25 MaySunday: Hili dialogue
44. 25 MayReaders’ wildlife (and domesticlife) photos
45. 25 MayKamloops: Day 3
46. 25 MayImagine no guns
47. 25 MayBaby reaches Ceiling Cat (or is it?)
48. 25 MayMaryam Namazie interviews A.C. Grayling
49. 25 MaySwallows suss out motion detectors, learn to open doors
50. 24 MaySaturday: Hili dialogue
51. 24 MayCaturday felid: Ceiling cat is for real! (and Maru lagniappe)
52. 24 MayWhere the birds are
53. 24 MayWeekly weird comments
54. 24 MayNBC Evening News validates the Bible
55. 23 MayFriday: Hili dialogue, with extra Spaghetti Monster!
56. 23 MayChicago, sunset with gathering storm
57. 23 MayReaders’ wildlife photos
58. 23 MayDeepak Chopra: Quantum troll
59. 23 MayMore commencement speakers pull out due to political incorrectness
60. 23 MayDo as I say, not as I do
61. 23 MayMama bear rescues cub from highway, mama elephant rescues calf from river
62. 23 MayAn island snake, lost and found
63. 22 MayThursday: Hili dialogue
64. 22 MayCarl Sagan’s grave
65. 22 MayFilm critic screws up the phylogenetic position of Godzilla
66. 22 MayOnly in America
67. 22 MayFalconCam in Fargo
68. 22 MayRemarkable mimicry in seahorses and pipefish
69. 21 MayWednesday: Hili dialogue
70. 21 MayReaders’ wildlife photos
71. 21 MayJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ demons
72. 21 MayRead the Roolz
73. 21 MayThe Adam-and-Eve war continues at Bryan College
74. 21 MayHigh-rise robin nest
75. 21 MayGoogle doodle honors Mary Anning
76. 21 May“We are a better people than what these laws represent”: Dover’s Judge Jones rules Pennsylvania’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional
77. 21 MayCat hates lip-synched song
78. 20 MayTuesday: Hili dialogue
79. 20 MayI get good news this morning!
80. 20 MayGenie Scott at Kamloops: How do you get people to accept evolution, and is theistic evolution “science”?
81. 20 MayPigliucci pwns Neil deGrasse Tyson; SMBC teases Pigliucci
82. 20 MayTwo cars
83. 20 MayD’Souza’s probably going to jail
84. 19 MayMonday: Hili dialogue
85. 19 MayReaders’ wildlife photos
86. 19 MayIdaho governor’s debate: a congregation of loons
87. 19 MayAnother one missed on the bucket list
88. 19 MayPentagon plans for zombie invasion
89. 19 MayGoogle honors Rubik’s cube; solve it yourself and win encomiums
90. 18 MaySunday: Hili dialogue
91. 18 MayChicago, evening
92. 18 MayKamloops: Day 2
93. 18 MayHeron noms bunny, proves non-existence of God
94. 18 MayCat adopts baby squirrel, proves existence of God
95. 17 MaySaturday: Hili dialogue
96. 17 MayCaturday felid trifecta: Cat tries to pwn music, epid cat leaps, and cat missing in Japanese tsunami turns up after three years
97. 17 MayMeeting report: Imagine No Religion
98. 17 MayAllen Orr slams Nicholas Wade’s new book
99. 17 MayHow close are we to the Rapture? Pretty damn close!
100. 16 MayFriday, Hili dialogue
101. 16 MayI have landed—and an anecdote about Canadian airport security
102. 16 MaySudanese woman sentenced to death for “apostasy”: marrying a Christian
103. 16 MayDeepak beefs again about the skepticism on his Wikipedia page
104. 16 MayMan hugs adult lions (and hyenas)
105. 15 MayThursday: Hili dialogue
106. 15 MayA matter of degree
107. 15 MayNY Times implicitly accepts Biblical account of Jesus’s deeds
108. 15 MayH. R. Giger died
109. 15 MayGood news! Religion expunged from South Carolina fossil bill
110. 15 MayBy whom?
111. 15 MayReaders’ weekly attacks on evolution and atheism, and Scalia on the devil
112. 15 MayLeaping lizards!
113. 15 MayTwo lynx have a chinwag
114. 14 MayWednesday: Hili dialogue
115. 14 MayJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ rage
116. 14 MayReaders’ wildlife photos
117. 14 MayNew book on race by Nicholas Wade: Professor Ceiling Cat says paws down
118. 14 MayWe win!
119. 14 MayDan Fincke pwns Sophisticated Theology
120. 14 MayCat saves toddler from d*g
121. 14 MayRon Reagan’s ad for the FFRF
122. 13 MayTuesday: Hili dialogue
123. 13 MayReaders’ wildlife photographs
124. 13 MaySurprise: Ukraine referendum a total farce
125. 13 MayDitching the hijab in Iran
126. 13 MayTwo talks to attend: Portland and Minneapolis
127. 13 MayCrows find a novel use for coat hangers
128. 13 MayGato a mano, with added WEIT
129. 12 MayMonday: Hili dialogue
130. 12 MayReaders’ wildlife photos
131. 12 MayThe religion of death
132. 12 MayDinesh D’Souza is right!
133. 12 MayWhat is it like to be a cat?
134. 12 MaySurprise: Pope Francis believes in Satan and demons
135. 12 MayGoogle doodle celebrates Nobel Laureate
136. 12 MaySpider butt reveals God
137. 11 MaySunday: Hili dialogue
138. 11 MayReaders’ wildlife photos
139. 11 MayThe Boss + Bach
140. 11 MayMore apologists for Islamic malfeasance
141. 11 MayThe world’s prettiest fossil
142. 11 MayAn amazing cartwheeling spider
143. 11 MayRIP Annapurna
144. 10 MaySaturday: Hili dialogue
145. 10 MayCaturday felids: adopted moggies; Henri disses springtime
146. 10 MayReaders’ wildlife photos
147. 10 MayBrunei introduces draconian sharia law
148. 10 MayEric Hedin promoted; discussions between Ball State and creationist legislatures have unclear outcome
149. 10 MayAtheism-of-the-gaps; argument #117
150. 9 MayFriday: Hili dialogue
151. 9 MayReaders’ wildlife photos
152. 9 MayA revealing conversation between Sam Harris and Ayaan Hirsi Ali
153. 9 MaySans commentaires
154. 9 MayU.S. gun lobby opposes safety-equipped guns
155. 9 MayWobbly cats
156. 9 MayMassachusetts court rules that Pledge of Allegiance’s use of “God” doesn’t discriminate against atheists
157. 9 MayA Friday cat hug
158. 8 MayThursday: Hili dialogue
159. 8 MayReaders’ wildlife photos
160. 8 MayDeepak and Tanzi at it again: change your genes by changing your life
161. 8 MaySee the Earth from space—in real time
162. 8 MayLying for Darwin
163. 8 MaySpanish government gives medal for police bravery to an icon of the Virgin Mary
164. 7 MayWednesday: Hili dialogue
165. 7 MayE. O. Wilson goes on Colbert to tout his book
166. 7 MaySend in the Clowns
167. 7 MayReaders’ wildlife photographs
168. 7 MayIn which I’m once again embarrassed to be an American
169. 7 MayVatican dispenses slaps on the wrist
170. 7 MayNew chemical element found
171. 7 MayAll in
172. 7 MayBig debate on the afterlife going on NOW
173. 6 MayTuesday: Hili dialogues
174. 6 MayReaders’ wildlife photographs with bonus big-cat petting
175. 6 MayYou’ve got to be carefully taught: Hamas television urges kids to hate and kill Jews
176. 6 MayBryan College bleeding fundamentalists
177. 6 MayThe fearless and adorable meerkat
178. 5 MayMonday: Hili dialogue
179. 5 MayFoxy boots
180. 5 MayReaders’ wildlife photos (and a video); including “spot the bittern”
181. 5 MayAlabama embarrasses itself again: Chief Justice says First Amendment applies only to Christians
182. 5 May“Tear down this wall, Mr. Justice Roberts”: Supreme Court allows prayer in town meetings
183. 5 MayMy New Republic piece on bungled executions (and a related radio interview)
184. 5 MayMore on the Town of Greece v Galloway decision
185. 5 MayThe path to God
186. 5 MayMy big chance
187. 4 MaySunday: Hili dialogue
188. 4 MayGoogle Doodle: Audrey Hepburn
189. 4 MayDamon Linker fails to spot the nightjar; says human altruism proves Jesus
190. 4 MayDoonesbury on PuffHo
191. 4 MayTen animals about to go extinct
192. 4 MayA sqrl tw**t
193. 3 MaySaturday: Hili dialogue
194. 3 MayCaturday felid: Hamish McHamish
195. 3 MayReaders’ wildlife photos
196. 3 MayThe moral obligation to drink coffee?
197. 3 MayHeaven is not for real
198. 3 MayAffronted beaver snarls traffic in New Brunswick
199. 2 MayFriday: Hili dialogue
200. 2 MayChicago: sunset and lights
201. 2 MayDude boots
202. 2 MayIrony of the month: Norway accused by Saudi Arabia of human rights violations
203. 2 MayAsk and ye shall receive: Oklahoma’s stupidity brings a monument to Satan to its capitol grounds
204. 2 MayMore on the Lockett execution and the uselessness of the three-drug protocol
205. 2 MayReaders’ wildlife photographs
206. 2 MayWeekly words of wisdom
207. 1 MayThursday: Hili dialogue, with bonus pictures of her orchard
208. 1 MayA tiny hamster eats tiny burritos
209. 1 MayA mathematical (?) spider from the African deserts
210. 1 MayAnother botched execution reinforces the cruelty of capital punishment
211. 1 MayHelp Professor Ceiling Cat defend felids
212. 1 MayTeach what controversy? More creationist shenanigans in South Carolina

April 2014

1. 30 AprWednesday: Hili dialogue
2. 30 AprReaders’ wildlife photos (?)
3. 30 AprIslamophobia vs dislike of Islam
4. 30 AprA peeved believer argues that science arose from Christianity
5. 30 AprMay 7: Sean Carroll and Steve Novella to debate the woomeisters on life after death
6. 29 AprTuesday: Hili dialogue
7. 29 AprSmithsonian photo contest finalists
8. 29 AprWeekly roundup of readers’ comments
9. 29 AprMeet the new Pope. . .
10. 29 AprReaders’ wildlife photos
11. 29 AprPolitical correctness gone wild in Toronto: “Hop on Pop” alleged to promote violence
12. 29 AprPunch in the presence of the moggie
13. 28 AprMonday: Hili dialogue
14. 28 AprThings heat up in Ukraine
15. 28 AprReaders’ wildlife photos
16. 28 AprTelegraph columnist: atheists are mentally ill
17. 28 AprHobby Lobby-supported religious curriculum introduced into Oklahoma schools
18. 28 AprAsked and answered
19. 28 AprA baby rabbit with a backpack
20. 27 AprSunday: Hili dialogues (two!)
21. 27 AprReaders’ wildlife photographs, including a “spot-the-pelicans” quiz
22. 27 AprNew York Times reviews Barbara Ehrenreich’s book on her mystical experiences
23. 27 AprLast night’s noms
24. 27 AprLord Oystermouth’s lament: Britain is a “post-Christian” nation
25. 27 AprThe sorry state of the God of the Gaps
26. 27 AprNews o’ the day
27. 26 AprSaturday: Hili dialogue
28. 26 AprCaturday felids: cafes and furniture
29. 26 AprFantastic and plastic mimicry in a tropical vine
30. 26 AprAlain de Botton, master patronizer, ruins the Rijksmuseum
31. 26 AprWas Darwin a sluggard?
32. 25 AprFriday: Hili Dialogue
33. 25 AprOfficial website phrases
34. 25 AprA conference on hype in science
35. 25 AprBehold: a zonkey is born
36. 25 AprStill moar Joni
37. 25 AprToday only! Professor Ceiling Cat to expatiate to the BBC on zonkeys
38. 25 AprBalancing goats
39. 24 AprThursday: Hili dialogue
40. 24 AprChicago: evening
41. 24 AprA Case of You
42. 24 AprDavid Bentley Hart responds (poorly and arrogantly) to Adam Gopnik on God
43. 24 AprMore dangerous woo from Whole Foods
44. 24 AprJesus shows up on a pancake—on Good Friday!
45. 24 AprIsis got adopted
46. 23 AprWednesday: Hili dialogue
47. 23 AprMoar Joni
48. 23 AprAmericans’ knowledge of science is in the dumper
49. 23 AprDeepity Chopra and Rudolph Tanzi sell Big Brain kit; admit science behind it is weak
50. 23 AprCats (and other animals) on sports fields
51. 23 AprCeiling Cat help us: Guns everywhere in Georgia
52. 23 AprKarl Giberson debates Stephen Meyer about evolution
53. 22 AprTuesday: Hili dialogue
54. 22 AprSpring footwear
55. 22 AprWhen good skeptics go bad: Isaac Chotiner interviews Barbara Ehrenreich about her mystical experiences
56. 22 AprThe dangers of quantum theology
57. 22 AprThe ninth pitch drop fell
58. 22 AprDavid Bentley Hart: Last installment
59. 22 AprA gorgeous 100 million year-old robber
60. 22 AprMy New Republic piece on “atheism of the gaps”
61. 21 AprMonday: Hili dialogue
62. 21 AprHelpless Coyote
63. 21 AprReaders’ wildlife photos
64. 21 AprAtheism of the gaps
65. 21 AprInsurgents in eastern Ukraine are likely Russian military and intelligence forces
66. 21 AprIncensed secularists pile on David Cameron for saying that Britain is a Christian nation
67. 21 AprHoney badgers are awesome
68. 21 AprThe Big Nap
69. 20 AprSunday: Hili dialogue
70. 20 AprThe passion of the Christian
71. 20 Apr“That Jew Died for You”
72. 20 AprFree godless book for Easter
73. 20 AprMore atheist-bashing at Salon
74. 20 AprLife in the slow lane: time-lapse video of corals and sponges
75. 20 AprTips for atheists on Easter
76. 20 AprMore news on Jerry Coyne the Cat
77. 19 AprHili dialogue: Saturday
78. 19 AprCaturday felids: Reader’s report of a cat hotel in Malta
79. 19 AprResearchers report female cave insect with grasping penis, leads to accusations of sexist science
80. 19 AprReaders’ wildlife photos
81. 19 AprNew Jersey rejects atheist license plate, approves Baptist one
82. 19 AprDavid Bentley Hart tells us that God is bliss and consciousness, not to mention reality
83. 18 AprFriday: Hili Dialogue
84. 18 AprWas Ayaan Hirsi Ali censored?
85. 18 AprNo drinking in Ireland today
86. 18 AprIf corporations told the truth
87. 18 AprDavid Bentley Hart: Humans’ search for truth proves God
88. 18 AprEnd-of-the-week squirrel squee
89. 17 AprThursday: Hili dialogue
90. 17 AprThe spider that looks like a plant
91. 17 AprDavid Cameron goes all goddy again
92. 17 AprMoar foxes
93. 17 AprAnother dumb politician doesn’t understand the First Amendment
94. 17 AprA memorial for Kenny King from his brother Peter
95. 17 AprA cool veterinary hospital
96. 16 AprWednesday: Hili dialogue
97. 16 AprMaking wols: Burrowing owls in flagrante delicto
98. 16 AprFinally, Dawkins converts people to Christianity
99. 16 AprRussia’s lies about Ukraine
100. 16 AprMy new Republic post on Hart and Douthat is up
101. 16 AprSquirrel buries nuts in a guy’s clothes
102. 15 AprTuesday: Hili dialogue
103. 15 AprReaders’ wildlife photos
104. 15 AprSalon jumps the shark, becomes official secular atheist-bashing site
105. 15 AprAgain 2
106. 15 AprKen Miller gets big Catholic prize
107. 14 AprReaders’ wildlife photographs
108. 14 AprHoliday snaps: Davis (mostly noms)
109. 14 AprThe New Scientist goes Templeton
110. 14 AprMonday: Hili dialogue
111. 14 AprRoss Douthat and David Bentley Hart tell us how to find religious truth
112. 14 AprScientology’s dirty little secrets
113. 14 AprSony World Photography winners
114. 13 AprSunday: Hili dialogue
115. 13 AprIt’s squirrel week
116. 13 AprThe Roolz reiterated
117. 13 AprIowa governor signs proclamation putting state’s trust in God
118. 13 AprMy Storer Lectures are online
119. 13 AprBill introduced in California to prohibit using killer whales for entertainment
120. 13 AprHumpback whale, entangled in net, saved with a pocket knife
121. 13 AprInvasion of the Giant Squirrel!
122. 13 AprFor those of a certain age
123. 12 AprSaturday: Hili dialogue
124. 12 AprCaturday felid: exchange cat
125. 12 AprWill humans become two subspecies?
126. 12 AprWhat we’re up against: Weekly roundup of creationist comments
127. 12 AprWhat Ayaan Hirsi Ali would have said
128. 12 AprReaders’ wildlife photos
129. 12 AprA lovely fossilized beetle
130. 12 AprMoar homeopathy in Davis
131. 11 AprFriday: Hili dialogue
132. 11 AprReaders’ wildlife photos
133. 11 AprLouisiana proposes bill to designate the Bible as The Official State Book
134. 11 AprThe most salacious scientific lecture in history
135. 11 AprPterosaurs take Manhattan
136. 11 AprA discussion of Christopher Hitchens by Stephen Fry and friends
137. 11 AprEvolution made my daughter cry
138. 11 Apr“Your Inner Fish”– TV version– has begun
139. 10 AprThursday: Hili dialogue
140. 10 AprReaders’ wildlife photographs
141. 10 AprMuslims shut down university screenings of film about Islam and women
142. 10 AprDavid Cameron claims that he and the Tories are “doing God’s work”
143. 10 AprThis is not a joke
144. 10 AprTwo cartoons on cats and heaven
145. 10 AprTrue facts about owls
146. 9 AprWednesday: Hili dialogue
147. 9 AprJesus ‘n’ Mo and ‘n’ those atheist terrorists
148. 9 AprBrandeis University cancels plans to give Ayaan Hirsi Ali an honorary degree
149. 9 AprSurprise! New study by Australians shows that homeopathy is bunk
150. 9 AprIs religion a superstition?
151. 9 AprAyaan Hirsi Ali’s response, and how to contact Brandeis
152. 8 AprTuesday: Hili dialogue
153. 8 AprI’m in California: Part deux
154. 8 AprA win for evolution at CuriOdyssey!
155. 8 AprAs I predicted
156. 8 AprThe grasping reflex of babies: a vestigial trait?
157. 8 AprTalk venue changed for tomorrow
158. 8 AprReader’s cat pees in electrical socket
159. 7 AprMonday: Hili dialogue
160. 7 AprReaders’ wildlife photos
161. 7 AprTrigger warning for EVOLUTION at children’s science center
162. 7 AprRankings boosted by strange post
163. 7 AprBarbara Ehrenreich had a vision, suspects it may reflect realities beyond our ken
164. 7 AprButter gets a lion cut: photos and an awesome video
165. 7 AprRare footage of live oarfish
166. 7 AprI’m in California
167. 6 AprSunday: Hili dialogue
168. 6 AprPeter Matthiessen died
169. 6 AprReaders’ wildlife photos
170. 6 AprThe worst atheist-bashing article of the year
171. 6 AprBatesian mimicry of proselytizers
172. 6 AprDon’t go to Chili’s tomorrow
173. 6 AprChili’s cancels its support-the-anti-vaxers night
174. 5 AprSaturday: Hili dialogue
175. 5 AprReaders’ wildlife photos
176. 5 AprDid they find the lost plane?
177. 5 AprAgainst all reason, Alabama outlaws sex toys
178. 5 AprCaturday felids: Feline topiary and an attempt at roaring
179. 5 AprThree amazing examples of camouflage (no nightjars)
180. 4 AprFriday: Hili dialogue
181. 4 AprCeiling Cat Special: Version 4.0
182. 4 AprAndrew Brown, his apophatic naturalism, and “other ways of knowing”
183. 4 AprDoes SeaWorld tranquilize its animals?
184. 4 AprFossil mammoth bill passes South Carolina legislature, with creationist rider!
185. 4 AprUpdate on Jerry Coyne in his new home
186. 4 AprThe world’s most polite cat
187. 4 AprGive it a rest, Deepity
188. 3 AprThursday: Hili dialogue
189. 3 AprReaders’ wildlife photographs
190. 3 AprMore feline humor from readers
191. 3 AprThe Supreme Court screws up again
192. 3 AprMy “devil’s dictionary”
193. 3 AprMy New Republic piece on woo and consciousness
194. 3 AprBritish mammal photo contest winners
195. 3 AprLarry Moran makes a Freudian slip
196. 2 AprWednesday: Hili dialogue
197. 2 AprJesus ‘n’ Mo and religious “healing”
198. 2 AprKenny King, RIP
199. 2 Apr“My ghast was flabbered”: A. C. Grayling visits the Creation Museum, and speaks about humanism
200. 2 AprHummingbird Cam!
201. 2 Apr“And When I Die”
202. 1 AprTuesday: Hili dialogue
203. 1 AprSpring boots
204. 1 AprFamily business: Daniel Matute wins Dobzhansky Prize, and Matthew’s cats
205. 1 AprDoes consciousness refute materialism? The Chronicle of Higher Education promotes woo
206. 1 AprIs Dennett rethinking free will?
207. 1 AprMy podcast on the Bryan Callen Show
208. 1 AprA huge honking tree

March 2014

1. 31 MarMonday: Hili dialogue
2. 31 MarJapan can no longer legally hunt whales
3. 31 Mar“Say You Love Me”
4. 31 MarEureka! Canny crows figure out water displacement to get noms
5. 31 MarHemingway app judges writing—badly
6. 31 MarThe weirdest adaptation? The lizard that squirts blood from its eyes (with update)
7. 31 MarYet more government support for creationism
8. 31 MarA cat suckling ducklings!
9. 30 MarSunday: Hili dialogue
10. 30 MarValue/health care dollar: U.S. vs. rest of world
11. 30 MarTwo Republican creationists block South Carolina’s adoption of the Wooly Mammoth as the state fossil
12. 30 Mar“Noah” may be worth seeing after all
13. 30 MarThe world’s oldest living organisms
14. 30 MarJerry Coyne, on drugs, put in halfway house, and then released to forever home
15. 29 MarSaturday: Hili dialogue
16. 29 Mar3 geeks for health care
17. 29 MarCaturday felids: Lynx with huge paws, and purloining moggie
18. 29 MarEd Kagin died
19. 29 MarAlan Sokal highlights the incompatibility of science and religion
20. 29 MarWeekly craziness from readers
21. 29 MarDeaf woman hears her first sounds
22. 29 MarThis week’s New York Times bestsellers: why are these things different from the others?
23. 28 MarI need 25 more subscribers
24. 28 MarFriday: Hili dialogue
25. 28 MarReaders’ wildlife photos
26. 28 MarSpot the ptarmigan!
27. 28 MarTheologian gets pwned by physicist in The Guardian
28. 28 MarDeepakity
29. 28 MarHere’s the ptarmigan
30. 28 MarYet another blasphemer of Mohammed sentenced to death in Pakistan
31. 28 MarA great basketball coach with a great atheist hero
32. 28 MarCat tries to open the Door to Summer
33. 27 MarThursday: Hili dialogue
34. 27 MarReaders’ wildlife photographs
35. 27 MarBall State president to meet with creationist Indiana legislators
36. 27 MarA close encounter of the whale kind
37. 27 MarPing pong cat
38. 26 MarWednesday: Hili dialogue (and peregrinations)
39. 26 MarScience and Religion discussion tonight in Indiana
40. 26 MarWikipedia definitively rejects unsubstantiated woo
41. 26 MarJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ “faith”
42. 26 MarDeepak Chopra, still peeved, tweets about a comment on an ancient New Republic piece
43. 26 Mar“In Heaven, everybody’s young”: a new movie proving Heaven
44. 26 MarJerry Coyne, snuggling
45. 25 MarTuesday: Hili dialogue
46. 25 MarSpot the nightjar—the video
47. 25 MarShould vaccinations be mandatory? A debate in the New York Times
48. 25 MarThe National Center for Science Education becomes BioLogos
49. 25 MarAtheism as self-help
50. 25 MarStill moar photos of Jerry Coyne the Cat
51. 24 MarMonday: Hili dialogue
52. 24 MarReaders’ wildlife (and landscape) photos
53. 24 MarMassimo hangs it up
54. 24 MarDavid Bentley Hart on God
55. 24 MarHappy Birthday, Professor Steve!
56. 24 MarToday’s Google Doodle celebrates civil rights activist
57. 24 MarThe Argument from Pandas
58. 24 MarKenneth Miller sells book on consciousness—and its evolution
59. 24 MarMy religion and morality piece in The New Republic
60. 23 MarSunday: Hili dialogue
61. 23 MarCaturday felid contest: answers
62. 23 MarReaders’ wildlife photographs: a melange
63. 23 MarIt’s snowing again!
64. 23 MarWisconsin governor issues Christian tw**t
65. 23 MarExpected creationist pushback over “Cosmos”
66. 23 MarBest news headline ever
67. 23 MarJerry Coyne is a movie star!
68. 22 MarSaturday: Hili dialogue
69. 22 MarChicago: rainy evening
70. 22 MarToday’s Google doodle: what is it?
71. 22 MarCaturday felid: Cats with famous people; you guess ’em
72. 22 MarCalifornia school exit exam prohibits questions on evolution, age of earth, and so on
73. 22 MarCNN piece suggests that cosmic inflation finding is evidence for God
74. 22 MarRaccoon plays the aquatic harp
75. 22 MarMolly gets adopted
76. 21 MarFriday: Hili dialogue
77. 21 MarJerry Coyne has been neutered
78. 21 MarReaders’ wildlife photos: A baked eagle
79. 21 MarNew Tory party poster echoes Orwell
80. 21 MarCasey Luskin admits that Intelligent Design is religious
81. 21 MarCosmic inflation one more time—well, two
82. 21 MarFriday felids: A d*g travesty and a patient cat
83. 20 MarThursday: Hili dialogue
84. 20 MarIt’s spring!
85. 20 MarReaders’ wildlife (and cat) photographs
86. 20 MarBICEP, gravitational waves et al.
87. 20 MarI got the book! You know, the one with the best arguments for God
88. 20 MarWhat’s next for Russia?
89. 19 MarWednesday: Hili dialogue
90. 19 MarReaders’ wildlife photos
91. 19 MarSeymour Benzer: humor, history, and genetics
92. 19 MarMust you be religious to be moral?: A worldwide survey, and its lesson
93. 19 MarNeil deGrasse Tyson identifies the greatest physicist of all time—in slow motion
94. 19 MarJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ “interfaith dialogue”
95. 19 MarAnother Ceiling Cat Special
96. 19 MarThe Ecklund/accommodationist post published in The New Republic
97. 18 MarNo Hili dialogue today; Emma died
98. 18 MarReaders’ wildlife photographs
99. 18 MarMore dubious claims that science and religion are compatible
100. 18 MarRead the Roolz!
101. 18 MarDid Courtney Love find the missing Malaysia Air jet?
102. 18 MarJust because. . .
103. 18 MarPrince Rupert’s Drop
104. 18 MarJerry Coyne soon to be neutered and taken to Christchurch
105. 17 MarMonday: Hili dialogue
106. 17 MarReaders’ cats: trifecta!
107. 17 MarRosenhouse: It’s okay to criticize Intelligent Design in science class, but not okay to teach it as science
108. 17 MarIn less than an hour, scientists will announce their discovery of the Big Bang’s echo
109. 17 MarReaders’ wildlife photos: Geese, meese, and woodpeckers
110. 17 MarBritish Humanist Association launches YouTube campaign featuring Stephen Fry
111. 17 MarMoar wildlife body art: woman painted to look like parrot
112. 16 MarSunday: Hili dialogue
113. 16 MarThe Ceiling Cat special evolves
114. 16 MarMore anti-gay bigotry: NYC preacher advocates stoning gays; Indiana bakery refuses to make wedding cake for same-sex couple
115. 16 MarReaders’ comments of the week
116. 16 MarCeci n’est pas une grenouille
117. 16 MarACLU overturns blatant First Amendment violation in Louisiana
118. 16 MarReaders’ wildlife photos
119. 16 MarHorsehead squirrel feeder
120. 15 MarSaturday: Hili Dialogue
121. 15 MarCaturday felid: “Methinks it is like a catcerto”
122. 15 MarAre atheists intellectual snobs?
123. 15 MarReaders’ wildlife photos
124. 15 MarHoliday snaps, Boston
125. 15 MarMaher on “Noah”
126. 14 MarFriday: Hili dialogue
127. 14 MarTwo cat cartoons
128. 14 MarDiscovery Institute and Indiana legislators ratchet up pressure on Ball State; DI issues threats and seeks emails sent to me
129. 14 MarUri Geller gets into the Malaysia Airlines act (and now a shaman!)
130. 14 MarDiscovery Institute admits that Intelligent Design is “a religious view”
131. 14 MarMy first posted recipe
132. 14 MarReaders’ cats: Spook (RIP) is replaced by Gus
133. 13 MarNon Sequitur on weather and accommodationism
134. 13 MarThursday: Hili dialogue
135. 13 MarIndiana legislators embarrass their state
136. 13 MarIs God a bodiless person?
137. 13 MarSaudi cleric issues fatwa against all-you-can-eat buffets
138. 13 MarThe last days of Jerry Coyne
139. 12 MarWednesday: Hili dialogue
140. 12 MarMore damn snow!
141. 12 MarThe “selfish gene” redux: Aeon magazine collects opinion on the metaphor
142. 12 MarThe Hedin issue is baaaack!: The Discovery Institute won’t accept their defeat at Ball State
143. 12 MarAre d*gs proof of creationism?
144. 12 MarStrangers kiss for the first time
145. 11 MarTuesday: Hili Dialogue
146. 11 MarJerry Coyne got adopted!
147. 11 Mar“12 Years a Slave”—and a question about faith
148. 11 MarMore “miracles” with the Malaysian jet
149. 11 MarExtra points if you get this one
150. 11 MarSteve Pinker and Ian McEwan: a can’t-miss double-bill
151. 11 MarLovely marine worms
152. 10 MarMonday: Hili dialogue
153. 10 MarJerry Coyne healthy, will soon be neutered and (sigh) adopted
154. 10 MarDa Roolz are finally up
155. 10 MarEric MacDonald leaves New Atheism
156. 10 MarThe winner: Cat Confession Contest!
157. 10 MarThe new “Cosmos”
158. 9 MarSunday: Hili dialogue
159. 9 MarReaders’ wildlife photos: Five ways of looking at a kingfisher
160. 9 MarPurdue wusses out on God plaque
161. 9 MarThe evolution of tetrapods
162. 9 MarReaders’ comments of the week
163. 9 MarA lovely leaping squirrel
164. 8 MarSaturday: HIli dialogue
165. 8 MarThe harbinger of summer
166. 8 MarCaturday felid trifecta: The mystery of “rocket cats,” Google’s nefarious cat policy, and a litter of mitten kittens
167. 8 MarIt’s International Women’s Day
168. 8 MarNew film on Noah and the Ark offends both Christians and Muslims
169. 8 MarFirst kakapo chick in three years
170. 7 MarFriday: Hili dialogue
171. 7 MarGood news: belief in God and the supernatural appears to wane
172. 7 MarOnly in America: Kentucky churches give away guns to bring men to Jesus
173. 7 MarGet the big pizza!
174. 7 MarSaucy video
175. 7 MarWebsite business
176. 6 MarThursday: Hili dialogue
177. 6 MarReaders’ wildlife photos
178. 6 MarKrauss on atheism in Hollywood
179. 6 MarJesus ‘n’ Mo and the FSM
180. 6 MarMore mothy mimicry
181. 6 MarPope Francis shows his true colors
182. 6 MarJerry Coyne is getting bigger and handsomer
183. 5 MarCat lives the dream: gets lost but lives three years in a Cornish pasty factory
184. 5 MarReaders’ wildlife photos: Diana gets a new camera
185. 5 MarDouthat admits that atheists are happy, but descries an impending intellectual crisis
186. 5 MarToo much domesticated biomass
187. 5 MarWhy is religion given a pass in skepticism?
188. 5 MarJewish school in England removes evolution questions
189. 5 MarA spectacular view of Chicago
190. 4 MarTuesday: Hili dialogue
191. 4 MarReaders’ wildlife photos
192. 4 MarGuerrilla Skeptics create and update Wikipedia pages (including mine)
193. 4 MarBryan College forces its faculty to swear to historical existence of Adam and Eve
194. 4 MarA good piece about Carl Sagan
195. 4 MarWorld’s oldest albatross gives birth—at age 63!
196. 4 MarToday’s Adam and Eve post now at The New Republic
197. 3 MarMonday: Hili dialogue
198. 3 MarHam/Nye debate said to bring financial windfall to Ham and his Ark Park
199. 3 MarComing soon: some new apologetics
200. 3 MarAndrew Sullivan takes a break for cats on his d*g blog, emphasizing assisted dying
201. 3 MarI have landed
202. 3 MarNew Republic publishes my “Bill Nye loses” piece
203. 2 MarSunday: Hili dialogue
204. 2 MarBoston!
205. 2 MarPanda-monium
206. 2 MarStenger on Pigliucci
207. 1 MarSaturday: Hili dialogue
208. 1 MarCaturday felid trifecta: A $35,000 home improvement for kittehs, plus two gifs
209. 1 MarIdaho set to allow guns on state campuses
210. 1 MarPurdue University rejects “God” language on donor’s plaque
211. 1 MarSome people actually believe this stuff

February 2014

1. 28 FebHili dialogue: Friday; and the glass flowers of Harvard
2. 28 FebMy Whole Foods piece in The New Republic
3. 28 FebCarroll vs Craig
4. 28 FebCritical mail of the week
5. 27 FebThursday: Hili dialogue
6. 27 FebJerry Coyne at 7 weeks
7. 27 FebNew book on Darwinian medicine
8. 27 FebGutting interviews a strident atheist in the New York Times
9. 27 FebMust we study history to understand science?
10. 27 FebRabbit stampede!
11. 26 FebWednesday: Hili dialogue
12. 26 FebJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ Moses ‘n’ Templeton
13. 26 FebIs Whole Foods a bastion of pseudoscience?
14. 26 FebCreationism taught in Indiana public school
15. 26 FebBaby lions: where I need to be.
16. 26 FebMedieval manuscript shows cat pwning fox
17. 25 FebTuesday: Hili dialogue
18. 25 FebJerry Coyne is growing
19. 25 FebA reply from Paul Bloom
20. 25 FebMusical interlude
21. 25 FebAdam Gopnik’s accommodationism gets it from both ends
22. 25 FebCats in the “Museum of Corruption”
23. 25 FebThe oldest known bit of Earth
24. 25 FebAnd every knee will bow
25. 24 FebMonday: Hili dialogue
26. 24 FebFinalists: Cat confession contest
27. 24 FebPaul Bloom claims that we’re not biochemical puppets because we can reason. He’s wrong.
28. 24 FebNuptial gift
29. 24 FebThe bland leading the blind: a conversation on atheism between Gary Gutting and Alvin Plantinga
30. 24 FebThe most happiest fox in the world
31. 23 FebSunday: Hili dialogue
32. 23 FebFind (and ID) the lepidopteran
33. 23 FebWhat is “science”?
34. 23 FebHere’s the butterfly—identified
35. 23 Feb“The frisking is frantic and often futile”: David Attenborough provides commentary for women’s curling
36. 23 FebGod Bless America. . .
37. 22 FebSaturday: Hili dialogue
38. 22 FebCaturday felids: Catnip madness!
39. 22 FebIf Dan Dennett (and I) ruled the world
40. 21 FebFriday: Hili Dialogue
41. 21 FebNew Republic publishes my Shroud of Turin piece
42. 21 FebAnother paper on “folk intuitions” about free will: Nahmias et al.
43. 21 FebGet the popcorn: Sean Carroll goes at it hammer and tongs with William Lane Craig—livestreamed tonight!
44. 21 FebFulsome accommodationism at the AAAS meeting
45. 21 FebRaccoon vs. bubble wrap
46. 20 FebThursday: Hili dialogue
47. 20 FebThe Finns must love their reindeer
48. 20 FebThe Shroud of Turin: why religion is a pseudoscience
49. 20 FebAnnie Laurie Gaylor defends the removal of Bibles from Iowa State University
50. 20 FebGirl orphaned by snake-handling parents writes in
51. 19 FebHili dialogue: Wednesday
52. 19 FebThe Holy Grail of katydids
53. 19 FebDoes the average person believe in determinism, free will, and moral responsibility?
54. 19 FebThe Big Jump
55. 19 FebKas Thomas melts down
56. 19 FebDon’t-miss video: Squirrel pwns hawk
57. 18 FebTuesday: Hili dialogue
58. 18 FebKas Thomas “replies” (if you can call it that)
59. 18 Feb“Your Inner Fish” television series
60. 18 FebElaine Ecklund is still pretending that science and religion are compatible
61. 18 FebEvolution of the door
62. 18 FebBibles removed from Iowa State guest rooms
63. 18 FebAfternoon delight
64. 17 FebMonday: Hili dialogue
65. 17 Febxkcd raises the bar for comics
66. 17 FebNo free speech in India
67. 17 FebReligion poisons everything: Another snake-handler bites the dust
68. 17 FebReaders’ wildlife videos: two honking woodpeckers
69. 17 FebKas Thomas plays the credentials card
70. 17 FebCeiling Cat materializes at the Olympics
71. 16 FebSunday: Hili dialogue
72. 16 FebTwo squabbling birds. . .
73. 16 FebIn defense of creationists?
74. 16 FebA big stink at The Big Think: the supposed shortcomings of “Darwinism” touted by a quasi-creationist “thinker”
75. 16 FebDeer rescued from ice by a Hovercraft
76. 16 FebJerry Coyne gets a bath, and other updates
77. 15 FebCaturday felid trifecta: Camouflage in cats, a feline apology, and an epic cat fail
78. 15 FebSaturday: Hili dialogue
79. 15 FebWacko comments of the week
80. 15 FebAl-Jazeera publishes rejection of evolution
81. 15 FebThe biggest piece of Egnorance yet
82. 15 FebThe good news: Jerry Coyne is healthy!
83. 14 FebHili dialogue: Friday
84. 14 FebHappy Valentine’s Day!
85. 14 FebDumb article of the month: Scotsman suggests new path of accommodation
86. 14 FebValentine #2
87. 14 FebThe kids who drew on the manuscript of On The Origin of Species
88. 14 FebWe’re #1
89. 14 FebWhy religion can be rational, but is doing it wrong
90. 14 FebValentine #3
91. 14 FebValentine #4
92. 14 FebValentine #5
93. 13 FebThursday: Hili dialogue
94. 13 FebUpdate: Jerry Coyne’s health
95. 13 FebMore about ME: I’m Polish Rationalist of the year, and I’m not even Polish
96. 13 FebSam Harris vs. Dan Dennett on free will
97. 13 FebMore about ME 2: My poster
98. 13 FebStar ratings on Ham/Nye debates: Ham becomes the bigger star
99. 13 FebWoman pregnant with baby and cat!
100. 12 FebWednesday: Hili dialogue on Darwin Day
101. 12 FebNew remarkable “Burgess-Shale” fossils from Canada
102. 12 FebCreationists avow their creed
103. 12 FebBill Nye on the joy of scientific discovery
104. 12 FebSouth Carolina lawmaker dilutes evolution in state science standards
105. 12 FebMy letter to Charles Darwin on his birthday
106. 12 FebPodcast with The Thinking Atheist
107. 12 FebGiant tortoises FTW
108. 12 FebFlower mimicry FTW
109. 12 FebDarwin’s pet tortoise
110. 11 FebShirley Temple died
111. 11 FebTuesday: Hili dialogue
112. 11 FebGoldfinch ascending
113. 11 FebAdam Gopnik on atheism in the New Yorker
114. 11 FebInterview with the Thinking Atheist
115. 11 FebNightjars: camouflage doesn’t always help
116. 11 FebDarwin Day 2014 in Kenosha, Wisconsin
117. 11 FebAnother Alex Honnold climb
118. 11 FebCat confession contest: all entries
119. 10 FebHili dialogue: Monday
120. 10 FebAnd yet another nightjar!
121. 10 FebHam/Nye debate archived
122. 10 FebJerry Coyne (the cat) is ill
123. 10 FebGreat news: I’m the Discovery Institute’s “Censor of the Year”!
124. 10 FebStill more religious craziness at British universities
125. 10 FebAngry birds!
126. 10 FebCreation/evolution documentary airs tonight on U.S. television
127. 10 FebHere’s the nightjar
128. 9 FebSunday: Hili dialogue
129. 9 FebJesus ‘n’ Mo and the wages of unbelief
130. 9 FebSunday readers’ diatribes
131. 9 FebThe world’s smartest bird?
132. 9 FebSun dogs in Canada
133. 8 FebSaturday: Hili dialogue
134. 8 FebIt’s cold!
135. 8 FebCaturday felids: Report on Jerry Coyne the ginger cat, and a rare appearance of Basement Cat
136. 8 FebDebate postmortem III: BioLogos weighs in, but not helpfully
137. 8 FebRaccoons, capybara, hawk vs snake, a squirrel and a d*g
138. 8 FebDebate postmortem IV: You know you’re a wacko when Pat Robertson is your voice of reason
139. 8 FebNew Chrome app for Aussies: Stop Tony Meow
140. 7 FebFriday: Hili dialogue
141. 7 FebOne minute and forty seconds of accommodationist fail
142. 7 Feb800,000-year-old hominin footprints found in England
143. 7 FebThey couldn’t help themselves
144. 7 FebEvolution-friendly young folk proffer questions for creationists
145. 7 FebGag me with a spoon
146. 7 FebBusiness cat!
147. 6 FebThursday: Hili Dialogue
148. 6 FebLeave my noms alone!
149. 6 FebWhy are there no more large flying birds?
150. 6 FebDebate postmortem I: Christian Science Monitor discusses creationist reaction
151. 6 FebDebate postmortem II: Phil Plait goes all accommodationist
152. 6 Feb“There are higher states of existence”: Scientology Super Bowl ad
153. 5 FebWednesday: Hili dialogue
154. 5 FebHere’s the nightjar chick
155. 5 FebWho won the big evolution/creation debate?
156. 5 FebMerlyn’s morning constitutional
157. 5 FebNew Republic publishes my debate analysis
158. 5 FebWhat we’re up against
159. 5 FebNBC News reports on the debate, and bonus anti-Ham tw**ts
160. 4 FebTuesday: Hili dialogue
161. 4 FebReaders’ wildlife photos: a European robin, up close and personal
162. 4 FebSpot the nightjar – again!
163. 4 FebThe TSA is even worse than we thought
164. 4 FebOne number to rule them all: -1/12
165. 4 FebThe 7000th post: A cat named Jerry Coyne
166. 4 FebDarwin Day, 2014, events in Kenosha, Wisconsin
167. 4 FebHam on Nye: last-minute articles and video on tonight’s debate
168. 3 FebMonday: Hili dialogue
169. 3 FebRumble at the feeder (and lagniappe)
170. 3 FebBizarre Mormon anti-masturbation video narrated by BYU President
171. 3 FebWhen did modern placental mammals diversify?
172. 3 FebPenn Jillette expatiates on Hitchens and other atheists
173. 2 FebSunday: Hili dialogue
174. 2 FebVolcanic eruption in Ecuador
175. 2 FebMy interview on Age of Discovery
176. 2 FebAn Open Letter to Bill Nye
177. 2 FebTiny, but immensely important: plankton
178. 2 FebThe Million Dollar Quartet
179. 2 FebThe needle and the damage done: Philip Seymour Hoffman died
180. 2 FebYou are a quadruped
181. 2 FebMonarch migration endangered
182. 1 FebSaturday: Hili Dialogue
183. 1 FebCaturdy felid trifecta: Cat goes missing from Canary Islands, turns up in Scotland; cat sees snow for the first time; and tomorrow’s Kittenbowl
184. 1 FebGrayling weighs in on the new A-level philosophy curriculum
185. 1 FebWilliam Lane Craig: God hears every Superbowl prayer
186. 1 FebReaders’ wildlife photos: Heron does its business (and lagniappe)
187. 1 FebSave a life in 3 minutes

January 2014

1. 31 JanFriday: Hili dialogue
2. 31 JanReaders’ wildlife photos: insects
3. 31 JanOy vey: UK schools replace secular philosophy courses with religious ones
4. 31 JanBig fail: Humanities curriculum goes all anti-scientistic
5. 31 JanPaul Bloom debunks the “Moral Law argument for God”
6. 31 JanFriday mammals: tigers and bears! (no lions)
7. 30 JanThursday: Hili dialogue
8. 30 JanChicago: frosty morning
9. 30 JanThe (mostly) good news: Darwin Day
10. 30 JanThe bad news about evolution: every Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Texas supports teaching creationism in public schools. Of course.
11. 30 JanJeremy Paxman talks to the Jesus and Mo artist; BBC and Channel 4 censor cartoon; Nawaz explains his tw**t of death
12. 30 JanTwo spectacular murmurations
13. 30 JanThe New Republic publishes my God-and-sports post
14. 29 JanWednesday: Hili dialogue
15. 29 JanAnother damn moth
16. 29 JanYet another creationist movie: “Genesis 3D”
17. 29 JanHalf of American fans think God (or demons) affect the outcome of sports
18. 29 JanIce sculptures
19. 29 JanIowa State University puts Bibles in guest rooms, riling up the FFRF
20. 29 JanCat refuses mail delivery
21. 29 JanA sugar glider
22. 28 JanTuesday: Hili dialogue
23. 28 JanReaders’ wildlife photos
24. 28 JanPete Seeger dies at 94
25. 28 JanDamon Linker wants atheists to struggle
26. 28 JanTeaching creationism is widespread in U.S. public schools
27. 28 JanMr. Squirrel has a postprandial nap
28. 28 JanThe trend of dissing science
29. 28 JanA cartoon for Damon Linker
30. 28 JanSurprise
31. 27 JanMonday: Hili dialogue
32. 27 JanReaders’ (and host’s) wildlife photos
33. 27 JanGuest post: why do sloths defecate on the ground?
34. 27 JanDo you really want me to post comments like this?
35. 27 JanBritish citizen sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy
36. 27 JanTwo nice animal videos: The most happiest elephant in the world and a lion whisperer
37. 27 JanAn odd egg
38. 26 JanSunday: Hili dialogue
39. 26 JanUpcoming HBO documentary on antievolutionism
40. 26 JanA “half sider” parakeet
41. 26 JanJesus visits Sarah Silverman
42. 26 JanHospital agrees to withdraw life support from brain-dead pregnant woman
43. 26 JanMuslim sensitivity causes Malaysian printer to censor pig faces!
44. 26 JanReligious Nigerian woman disowns cat for being gay
45. 25 JanSaturday: Hili dialogue
46. 25 JanCaturday felid: Habitats and furniture for the well-appointed cat
47. 25 JanPope calls the internet “a gift from God,” implying that Al Gore is God
48. 25 JanWhy there probably isn’t a ghost ship full of cannibal rats headed for the British Isles
49. 25 JanLay off the nip
50. 25 JanMartin Nowak, evolution, and God
51. 24 JanFriday: Hili dialogue
52. 24 JanWatt’s up with xkcd?
53. 24 JanPigliucci to all New Atheists: we’re doing it wrong
54. 24 JanNot a good year for Dinesh D’Souza
55. 24 JanThe New Republic publishes my critique of two Edge answers about evolution
56. 24 JanRampant creationism in Louisiana public school; Buddhist student told to avoid the hassle by converting
57. 24 JanDidga the cat on a remote-controlled skateboard—and a cat contest reminder
58. 23 JanThursday: Hili dialogue
59. 23 JanA request from Professor Ceiling Cat
60. 23 JanThe Edge question: two bad answers about evolution
61. 23 JanThe divine Sarah
62. 23 JanReaders’ wildlife photographs
63. 23 JanMilitant Islamic child abuse
64. 23 JanA physicist decries “quantum woo”
65. 23 JanEggcam films penguin colony from above; GoPro robot films lion cubs
66. 23 JanA remarkable case of felid mimicry
67. 22 JanWednesday: Hili dialogue
68. 22 JanSea anemones live in Antarctic ice! And upside down!
69. 22 JanPolar vortex boots
70. 22 JanJesus ‘n’ Mo and the Tweet of Death
71. 22 JanNye-Ham debate to be live-streamed FREE; Glenn Beck compares Nye to the Catholic Church’s silencing of Galileo
72. 22 JanA believer writes in
73. 22 JanReaders’ wildlife photos: Flying squirrel
74. 22 JanBill Nye explains his disbelief
75. 21 JanTuesday: Hili dialogue
76. 21 JanHow to suck at your religion
77. 21 JanThe new Cosmos, and Neil deGrasse Tyson on science vs. religion
78. 21 JanBandits!
79. 21 JanA kvetch about a pro-atheism piece
80. 21 JanNew Republic published my “Noah’s Ark” post
81. 21 JanFunny “New Scientist” headline generator
82. 21 JanMy book in a strange tongue
83. 20 JanCharlie and the seals
84. 20 JanMonday: Hili dialogue
85. 20 JanChicago: sunset
86. 20 JanNewly translated pre-Biblical tablet describes a great flood and a “rescue boat” with wild animals aboard—in pairs!
87. 20 JanWoomeister to give prestigious public-school lecture in UK
88. 20 JanReaders’ wildlife photographs (i.e., moar birds)
89. 20 JanFertility signals in ants, bees and wasps have deep common origins
90. 20 JanA FreeWilly cartoon
91. 19 JanThe fabulous pom-pom crab!
92. 19 JanSunday: Hili dialogue
93. 19 JanWe’re number 2 🙁 and a note on roolz
94. 19 JanThe religious recalcitrance of Americans
95. 19 JanYour Inner Fly: Fighting dipterans share genes with you and me
96. 19 JanThe Golden Steve nominees: the thinking person’s Oscars
97. 19 JanSquirrel and bird buffet
98. 18 JanSaturday: Hili dialogue
99. 18 JanCaturday felids: Cats and shell games
100. 18 JanReaders’ wildlife photos: weekend miscellany
101. 18 JanAn atheist law professor gets a bit muddled about atheism
102. 18 JanSecond reminder: Cat Confession Contest
103. 18 JanIs Jesus back? Nun gives birth—having no idea she was pregnant
104. 18 JanTwitter glitch
105. 18 JanTwitter problem fixed
106. 17 JanFriday: Hili dialogue
107. 17 JanExquisite behavioural mimicry: fly acts like a wasp
108. 17 JanOhio executes inmate with drug untested for executions; results are both predictable and unjustifiable
109. 17 JanWebsite post reprinted in The New Republic
110. 17 JanBill Nye’s upcoming debate earns $$ for creationist organizations
111. 17 JanScience vs. Faith: no conflict!
112. 17 JanReaders’ wildlife photos: bald eagle and red-tailed hawk
113. 17 Janсмешной котик
114. 16 JanThursday: Hili Dialogue
115. 16 JanAmazing bird’s-eye view of how falcons hunt
116. 16 JanTwo squirrels for Thursday
117. 16 JanWhat are the “best” arguments for God? More kudos (and raspberries) for David Bentley Hart’s new book.
118. 16 JanWhaddya gonna do?
119. 16 JanFree will: three easy pieces
120. 16 JanHow to treat a cat
121. 15 JanWednesday: Hili dialogue (and bonus snow in Dobrzyn)
122. 15 JanJesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ evidence
123. 15 JanAnnual Edge Question, and my answer
124. 15 JanMy snake-handling piece in The New Republic, and a note
125. 15 JanThe Discovery Institute gets terminally desperate: considers evolutionary rebuttals of creationist arguments as “condemning religion”
126. 15 JanAll countries shall have prizes
127. 14 JanTuesday: Hili dialogue
128. 14 JanIn my hotel room
129. 14 JanWhy not donate organs?
130. 14 JanTiktaalik had hind limbs!
131. 14 JanSnake handlers not charged for violating state law; “religious freedom” cited
132. 14 JanShaping Humanity- a new book by John Gurche on science and art
133. 13 JanChicago: Thursday sunrise
134. 13 JanMonday: Hili dialogue
135. 13 JanUnequivocal evidence for God? I don’t think so.
136. 13 JanProof of no God: the Argument From Sphenisciformes
137. 13 JanSean Carroll to debate William Lane Craig
138. 13 JanInterspecies friendship: bird and d*g
139. 13 JanCat confession contest
140. 13 JanLast day in Poland
141. 12 JanSunday: Hili Dialogue
142. 12 JanDavid Nelson died (UPDATE: in 2011!)
143. 12 JanHuffPo blogger: vote for Jesus!
144. 12 JanOnly in Alabama
145. 12 JanAfrican preacher tells congregation that God wants them to eat grass; they comply and then get sick
146. 12 JanBirthday song—pour moi
147. 12 JanMake your own caption
148. 12 JanSunday: The last day in Dobrzyn
149. 11 JanSaturday: Hili Dialogue
150. 11 JanCaturday felid trifecta: cat confessions, cat sculpture, and charging your cat (plus contest)
151. 11 JanTwo bloggers argue that the only morality that makes sense is based on the Christian God
152. 11 JanFirst steps of a polar bear cub
153. 11 JanNewsflash: Salon publishes piece urging more strident atheism
154. 11 JanReaders’ wildlife photos
155. 11 JanSaturday in Dobrzyn
156. 11 JanThe American Alligator
157. 10 JanFriday: Hili dialogue
158. 10 JanArnold’s boots
159. 10 JanForbes extols the success of BioLogos; I don’t buy it
160. 10 JanBlame Canada: Toronto university sparks fracas by supporting student’s refusal to work with women
161. 10 JanFind the nightjar
162. 10 JanAmazing feather-containing Cretaceous amber fossil for sale
163. 10 JanReligious humor
164. 10 JanFriday: Dobrzyn
165. 9 JanImagine No Religion 4
166. 9 JanThursday: Hili dialogue (with bonus)
167. 9 JanAnother hidden nightjar
168. 9 JanWhy are there no lagomorphs in Patagonia?
169. 9 JanLatest language peeve
170. 9 JanTexas forces brain-dead but pregnant woman to remain on life support
171. 9 JanHere’s the nightjar
172. 9 JanEx Swiss Guard reports constant sexual advances by bishops, cardinals, and priests
173. 9 JanSpot the Curiosity rover!
174. 9 JanThursday: Dobrzyn
175. 9 JanThe Brown Pelican
176. 8 JanWednesday: Hili dialogue
177. 8 JanReaders’ wildlife photographs: Green heron and hooded merganser
178. 8 JanMore atheist-bashing in Slate
179. 8 JanSpeaking of sophisticated theology. . .
180. 8 JanBill Nye talks about his upcoming debate with Ken Ham
181. 8 JanFrom Ricky Gervais’s Facebook page
182. 8 JanVirginia introduces first antiscience bill of the year
183. 8 JanWhat I missed in Chicago: the Big Polar Vortex
184. 8 JanWednesday: Dobrzyn
185. 7 JanTuesday: Hili Dialogue
186. 7 JanMore about the Pew poll on evolution acceptance
187. 7 JanConjoined whale calves found dead
188. 7 JanDouthat responds to me, decries materialism again
189. 7 JanChristmas trees are like catnip to Linton lions
190. 7 JanMy TAM interview, part 3
191. 7 JanDobrzyn: Tuesday in the country with Hili
192. 6 JanMonday: Hili dialogue
193. 6 JanMonday bird: Marsh wren
194. 6 JanEben Alexander’s bogus trip to heaven
195. 6 JanAncient flowering plants found in amber, suggests insect pollination 100 million years ago
196. 6 JanThe End Times for the humanities?
197. 6 JanMonday: Dobrzyn
198. 6 JanNow that’s cold!
199. 5 JanSunday: Hili dialogue
200. 5 JanSunday birds
201. 5 JanBill O’Reilly and Chris Stedman ally against The War on Christmas
202. 5 JanArk Park near collapse; will Bill Nye help finance it?
203. 5 JanThe amazing flexible Ross Sisters perform Solid Potato Salad
204. 5 JanTeller reviews Martin Gardner’s autobiography
205. 5 JanAn even quieter Sunday in Dobrzyn
206. 4 JanCaturday felids: The passing of notable cats
207. 4 JanPhil Everly died
208. 4 JanMuncie Star-Press adds Hedin affair to top stories, reveals new allegations about Guillermo Gonzalez, Ball State’s ID astronomer
209. 4 JanKim Jong-Il writes about opera
210. 4 JanMore misunderstanding of free will
211. 4 JanA quiet Saturday in Dobrzyn: walkies, shoppies, mammals and noms
212. 3 JanFriday: Hili dialogue (with bonus photos)
213. 3 JanIsaac Asimov’s predictions for 2014
214. 3 JanThis may not end well
215. 3 JanWhat, if anything, is wrong with the Pew poll on evolution acceptance?
216. 3 JanReaders’ wildlife photos: song sparrow
217. 3 JanReptile pwns insect, amphibian pwns reptile
218. 3 JanKarl Giberson says that evolution’s had a bad year, but he really means that Christianity did
219. 3 JanSaturday: Hili dialogue
220. 2 JanThursday: Hili dialogue and bonus note on “Meow” in Polish
221. 2 JanGuest post: A reader’s deconversion story
222. 2 JanThe “No true Christian” fallacy
223. 2 JanReaders’ cats: Sunny goes to bed
224. 2 JanLuhrmann soft-pedals religion again in the NYT: this time it’s demons
225. 2 JanA day in Dobrzyn, with added cat
226. 1 JanTuesday: Hili Dialogue
227. 1 JanThe mystery of Noah’s Ark solved
228. 1 JanPew Poll: American evolution-acceptance holds steady, partisan divide widens
229. 1 JanNew Year’s Day quiz: spot the nightjar
230. 1 JanYear-end website statistics
231. 1 JanNew Year’s Eve in Dobrzyn
232. 1 JanReaders’ wildlife photos: a red-tailed hawk hunts pigeons in Providence
233. 1 JanHere’s the nightjar!