Jerry Coyne
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Big snow in Chicago: 8-12 inches predicted. Video at the link; here is the quad:
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Big snow!
They predicted this storm, and pretty accurately, too. The weather report last night said that it would fall lightly starting at 3 a.m., and would turn heavier in the afternoon, accumulating to bet…
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November 29, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Big snow in Chicago: 8-12 inches predicted. Video at the link; here is the quad:
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Three--count them, three--cat-related items today, including the moggies of Istanbul, illustrated with photos I took, like these.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Three--count them, three--cat-related items today, including the moggies of Istanbul, illustrated with photos I took, like these.
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November 29, 2025 at 2:47 PM
All the news that's fit to print and, in Dobrzyn, the dialogue is a bit opaque:
Hili: How many skeletons can fit in one closet?
Andrzej: Human imagination knows no bounds.
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Hili: How many skeletons can fit in one closet?
Andrzej: Human imagination knows no bounds.
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November 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
All the news that's fit to print and, in Dobrzyn, the dialogue is a bit opaque:
Hili: How many skeletons can fit in one closet?
Andrzej: Human imagination knows no bounds.
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Hili: How many skeletons can fit in one closet?
Andrzej: Human imagination knows no bounds.
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A Czech Jewish boy was gassed along with his sister upon arriving at Auschwitz. He was thirteen years old.
29 November 1929 | A Czech Jew, Tibor Taglicht, was born. As a refugee he went to Norway.
He was deported to #Auschwitz with his sister Vera in March 1943. He was selected as able to work. He asked to stay with his younger sister. They were both murdered in a gas chamber.
He was deported to #Auschwitz with his sister Vera in March 1943. He was selected as able to work. He asked to stay with his younger sister. They were both murdered in a gas chamber.
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
A Czech Jewish boy was gassed along with his sister upon arriving at Auschwitz. He was thirteen years old.
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili is hating the cold weather:
Me: You seem troubled.
Hili: Not at all – I’m just counting the days to spring.
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Me: You seem troubled.
Hili: Not at all – I’m just counting the days to spring.
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November 28, 2025 at 1:11 PM
All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili is hating the cold weather:
Me: You seem troubled.
Hili: Not at all – I’m just counting the days to spring.
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Me: You seem troubled.
Hili: Not at all – I’m just counting the days to spring.
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This German Jewish girl was gassed to death as soon as she arrived in Auschwitz. She was nine years old.
28 November 1932 | A German Jewish girl, Anni Glattstein, was born in Essen. She emigrated to The Netherlands.
In October 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
In October 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
November 28, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This German Jewish girl was gassed to death as soon as she arrived in Auschwitz. She was nine years old.
Robert Ingersoll's humanistic "Thanksgiving Sermon," an appropriate appreciation of the holiday.
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Ingersoll’s Thanksgiving Sermon
Robert G. Ingersoll was known as “The Great Agnostic,” but today they’d call him “The Great Atheist.” He was the Christopher Hitchens of his time: a great orator, thin…
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November 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Robert Ingersoll's humanistic "Thanksgiving Sermon," an appropriate appreciation of the holiday.
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A wonderful PBS documentary about a naturalist bringing up a flock of wild turkeys in Florida. Happy Thanksgiving!
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My Life as a Turkey | PBS Nature Documentary
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November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A wonderful PBS documentary about a naturalist bringing up a flock of wild turkeys in Florida. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Photos of moose in Grand Teton National Park by Ephraim Heller.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Photos of moose in Grand Teton National Park by Ephraim Heller.
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All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Hili and Szaron are prognosticating.
Hili: What lies ahead?
Szaron: Brew some tea and check the leaves.
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Hili: What lies ahead?
Szaron: Brew some tea and check the leaves.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Hili and Szaron are prognosticating.
Hili: What lies ahead?
Szaron: Brew some tea and check the leaves.
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Hili: What lies ahead?
Szaron: Brew some tea and check the leaves.
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27 November 1942 | A Polish woman Anna Smoleńska (b. 28 Feb 1920) was incarcerated in #Auschwitz.
A girl scout, student of history of arts, author of the 'Kotwica - Fighting Poland' emblem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotwica).
She received no. 26008 & perished in the camp on 19 March 1943.
A girl scout, student of history of arts, author of the 'Kotwica - Fighting Poland' emblem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotwica).
She received no. 26008 & perished in the camp on 19 March 1943.
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
27 November 1942 | A Polish woman Anna Smoleńska (b. 28 Feb 1920) was incarcerated in #Auschwitz.
A girl scout, student of history of arts, author of the 'Kotwica - Fighting Poland' emblem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotwica).
She received no. 26008 & perished in the camp on 19 March 1943.
A girl scout, student of history of arts, author of the 'Kotwica - Fighting Poland' emblem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotwica).
She received no. 26008 & perished in the camp on 19 March 1943.
Sadly, the book draws a PG veil over the parties!
I'm often asked about the Cricks' Cambridge parties, which are mainly known through rumour and reputation.Here's the late Lisa Jardine, who as Lisa Bronowski was a student at Cambridge in the 60s and a family friend, through her Dad, and went to those parties. This was recorded in about 2009.
November 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Sadly, the book draws a PG veil over the parties!
A book recommendation: Ian McEwan's latest novel, "What We Can Know", is terrific.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A book recommendation: Ian McEwan's latest novel, "What We Can Know", is terrific.
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In the latest "Jesus and Mo," Mo speaks wisely but then immediately becomes a hypocrite.
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Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ the argumentum ad hominem
Today’s Jesus and Mo strip, called “tricksy”, features a trademark tendency of Mo: he criticizes something, and then Jesus then points out Mo’s hypocrisy, for what he’…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In the latest "Jesus and Mo," Mo speaks wisely but then immediately becomes a hypocrite.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Hili is being extra cuddly.
Hili: I’m not here to convert you.
Andrzej: But…
Hili: I only came to sit beside you.
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Hili: I’m not here to convert you.
Andrzej: But…
Hili: I only came to sit beside you.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
All the news that's fit to post and, in Dobrzyn, Hili is being extra cuddly.
Hili: I’m not here to convert you.
Andrzej: But…
Hili: I only came to sit beside you.
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Hili: I’m not here to convert you.
Andrzej: But…
Hili: I only came to sit beside you.
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This Fench Jewish boy was gassed to death as soon as he arrived in Auschwitz. He was four years old. Had he lived he would be 88 today.
26 November 1937 | French Jewish boy, Samek Erlich, was born in Paris.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 16 August 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 16 August 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This Fench Jewish boy was gassed to death as soon as he arrived in Auschwitz. He was four years old. Had he lived he would be 88 today.
Steve Pinker and Marian Tupy go after the notion that we need religion to have good modern societies, and also after the claim that things were better in the olden days than they are now.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Steve Pinker and Marian Tupy go after the notion that we need religion to have good modern societies, and also after the claim that things were better in the olden days than they are now.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili pretends to be helping out Andrzej (look at that tongue!):
Hili: Don’t you think it’s time for a break from work?
Andrzej: Maybe that’s a good idea.
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Hili: Don’t you think it’s time for a break from work?
Andrzej: Maybe that’s a good idea.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili pretends to be helping out Andrzej (look at that tongue!):
Hili: Don’t you think it’s time for a break from work?
Andrzej: Maybe that’s a good idea.
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Hili: Don’t you think it’s time for a break from work?
Andrzej: Maybe that’s a good idea.
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It was a hungry squirrel that bit me, a bloody byproduct of it trying to grab a hazelnut.
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It was a hungry squirrel. . .
Trigger warning: blood! Yesterday I posted this photo of an injury I sustained, and asked readers to guess what caused it: Given what readers know of me, the most common answers were “bit by …
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November 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It was a hungry squirrel that bit me, a bloody byproduct of it trying to grab a hazelnut.
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Nathan Lents and Agustín Fuentes use the "Argument from Complexity" to claim that sex isn't binary. It's the same old tired and misguided claims that Fuentes has been making for aeons, but there is no new biology (or philosophy) here.
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Surprise! Agustín Fuentes and Nathan Lents criticize the sex binary
I don’t know how many times Agustín Fuentes, an anthropology professor at Princeton, will keep repeating the same arguments about why biological sex isn’t binary (see these posts on my …
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November 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Nathan Lents and Agustín Fuentes use the "Argument from Complexity" to claim that sex isn't binary. It's the same old tired and misguided claims that Fuentes has been making for aeons, but there is no new biology (or philosophy) here.
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Only one species of cockroach in a hundred is associated with humans, but they still inspire disgust. Yet many serve a valuable function in nature: they are pollinators. An explanation buy Athayde Tonhasca Júnior.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Only one species of cockroach in a hundred is associated with humans, but they still inspire disgust. Yet many serve a valuable function in nature: they are pollinators. An explanation buy Athayde Tonhasca Júnior.
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